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...lives, for too many the problems of their entry into the world are compounded by long-term complications ranging from mental retardation and cerebral palsy to hyperactivity and respiratory disorders. "We all bear the costs," says Dr. RuthAnn Shepherd, director of the Kentucky department of health's division of adult and child health improvement...
...little to lose, it seems completely unreasonable for the FDA to not even let them try. That may be why the federal appeals court for the D.C. Circuit, the court that hears cases about regulatory agencies, ruled on May 2 that “a terminally ill, mentally competent adult patient’s informed access to potentially life-saving...new drugs” is a right that “warrants protection under the Due Process Clause...
...spent enough time with them to see how their personalities have developed. Adam is easily distracted, while Mariam could flip through the pages of a book forever. Mariam speaks in short, complete sentences while Adam mimics adult conversation—complete with wild gesticulations and even pregnant pauses—all while failing to utter a single intelligible word. (The men in my family...what...
...this philosophical dead end misses the more important and more practical question: Should an early-stage embryo, such as one conceived through rape, have the same standing in society as an adult? Fortunately, this problem is far more easily resolved, with the help of a few critical but shockingly under-mentioned scientific truths. Indeed, if an embryo and an adult are equivalent, as the Harvard Right to Life posters seem to propose, then any rational system of social ethics will degenerate into absurdity...
...think these practices as charmingly quirky as you do. And, short of angling to uncover your prof’s predilection from office hours hanky-panky in your quest for a recommendation, there’s really no excuse to be bringing up your sex life with this intimidating adult you hardly know. Avoid the wine, and stick to the more conversationally mundane...