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Ralph Waldo Emerson used "unborn" a total of 7 times.
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→American Courts: The U.S. Supreme Court has used the term "unborn" in 138 decisions (including merely a dissent or concurrence from the Court majority opinion), and 31 of those occurrences have been since Jan. 1, 2000.
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Courts in the United States have used the term "unborn" in writing in 3,890 federal court decisions and 13,707 state court decisions.
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→Shakespeare: William Shakespeare used "unborn" a total of 9 times, including as an adjective to a thought, time, or event.
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→Bible: Notably, the King James Version omits any express reference to the term "unborn".
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→Charles Dickens: Charles Dickens frequently used the term "unborn", at least a total of 21 times including many of his most prominent works.
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The Bible (ESV) expressly mentions "unborn" twice: {{bibleref|Psalm|22|31}} and {{bibleref|Psalm|78|6}}. The Bible contains many additional references to the unborn child without expressly using the term "unborn".
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Unborn in literature is an indication of how pro-life -- or anti-life -- certain literature is.
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