Her mother, Katharine Martha Houghton, was a great supporter of women's rights issues including the right to birth control.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Most of the neurons you have now in your head, right now, you had when you were in your mother's uterus.

此时此刻,你头脑中的大部分神经元,早在你处于母亲子宫中时,就已经拥有

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And the question remains whether her family had a legal or moral right to receive payment after something of monetary value was made from their mother's cells.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

In this case, if everything goes right, you inject the DNA into the pronucleus, you implant this fertilized egg into a foster mother, the mother gives birth to offspring, it develops and when it develops this foreign DNA is in the offspring.

如此一来,如果一切顺利,DNA成功注射进原核,受精卵成功植入代孕母亲,成功的孕育了后代,后代健健康康的长大,目的基因就成功的整合进了后代的基因组

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

If we have a debate about abortion in this class, people--some people might say, "Look. The fetus is a sentient being and as such it has a right to survive and shouldn't be killed by its mother."

如果我们在课常上以堕胎展开辩论，有些人可能会说，“胎儿是有知觉的生命体,所以它有生存的权利,它的母亲不应该扼杀它”

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选