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...justify standing in the way of cures for some of humanity's most dreaded diseases, you have to accept the right-to-life argument in its most extreme form. We're talking here about newly formed embryos. These are not fetuses with tiny, waving hands and feet. These are microscopic groupings of a few differentiated cells. There is nothing human about them, except potential--and, if you choose to believe it, a soul. Moreover, under the rules Bush is blocking, stem-cell research would not actually take the life of a single embryo. Researchers would use embryos that are being...
...acceptance, of the mass slaughter of embryos, even among right-to-lifers, with the huge fuss that antiabortion forces have stirred up over the relatively rare practice they insist on calling partial-birth abortions. This campaign emphasizes how recognizably human end-of-term fetuses are. The explicit or implicit argument is that these physical human qualities are at least part of what makes late-term abortions as morally objectionable as killing a postbirth human being. Either this argument is utterly disingenuous or the corollary must be that destruction of a newly conceived embryo is morally less objectionable...
...nature of the conflict. The second lesson: "Once you cross the threshold for the use of force, use it as decisively as possible." In other words, jump in with both feet and fire away! The third lesson, "continue to strike until the negotiations are successfully concluded," is an argument for the mindless use of force and firepower. Clark may be a fine general, but he makes me grateful that generals do not make policy. JOHN D. COPENHAVER JR. Winchester...
...been played for a chump and introduced his bill. The White House complains that Norwood was inflexible. This week the Democratic-controlled Senate will take up Edwards' bill. Republicans will try to pick it apart, but they know it's an uphill fight. "You can never win an argument that people can't sue," says a G.O.P. aide. "It's un-American...
...Internet rubble. During the past five months, new claims were up 27% over the same period last year. Securities attorney Jim Shapiro has landed 70 "slam-dunk" cases since running newspaper ads in March that asked, "Have you lost more than $100,000 in NASDAQ stocks?" His argument is simple: even if customers clamored for more tech, their brokers had a responsibility to apply the brakes...