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...comprehensive study published last week in the Journal of Genetic Counseling indicates such children run an only slightly higher risk of significant genetic disorders like cystic fibrosis or congenital heart defects--about two percentage points above the average 3% to 4%. Says the study's lead author, Robin Bennett, president-elect of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, which funded the study: "Aside from a thorough medical family history, there is no need to offer any genetic testing on the basis of consanguinity alone...
Publication of the study will do more than tweak public awareness; it will enlighten doctors who have urged cousin couples not to have children. "Just this week," says Bennett, "I saw a 23-year-old woman who had had a tubal ligation because her parents were cousins and her doctor told her she shouldn't have children." The study cites the case of "Amy," who had been in a relationship with her cousin for two years when, in 1996, she became pregnant. Her doctor suggested an abortion, and after a fruitless search for more information, she had the procedure. This...
...this corner we have Bill Bennett, former drug czar, author of The Book of Virtues and Somber-Presence-at-Large for the Republican right. His new book, Why We Fight (Doubleday; 170 pages), is a continuation of the culture wars framed as an attack on critics of the war on terrorism. And in this corner we have Michael Moore, the left-wing prankster and filmmaker (Roger & Me) whose new book, Stupid White Men (HarperCollins; 277 pages), is a smart-aleck rampage through the world made by CEOs and the G.O.P. It quickly hit the top of the New York Times...
...main targets of Bennett's book are "the diversity mongers, the multiculturalists, the relativists, and the plain old anti-Americans" who blame America for the Sept. 11 attacks and reject the use of retaliatory force. Unfortunately for Bennett, the Afghan war did not produce much serious opposition in the U.S. Whatever liberals may feel about American policy, it's hard to find any who actually sympathize with bin Laden, a man whose dream of a world where women are kept at home, where every area of life conforms to the harshest reading of Scripture, sounds too much like Jerry Falwell...
...Bennett might have had a real adversary in Moore, but Moore doesn't address any Sept. 11 questions. Stupid White Men was originally scheduled for publication the week of the attack, then held back by his publisher because of worries that his snippy tone--"Idiot in Chief" is one of the milder things he calls George W.--would not play well in wartime. Now we have his book pretty much as he wrote it, a bit of unadulterated pre-Sept. 11 wrath and a handy compilation of everything Moore's fans hate about the contested 2000 election ("Gore won!"), corporate...