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...whose book Why Gender Matters came out last month. "Women can see colors and textures that men cannot see. They hear things men cannot hear, and they smell things men cannot smell." Since the eyes, ears and nose are portals to the brain, they directly affect brain development from birth...
...shouldn't a future Democratic candidate commit to an actual goal of reducing abortions nationally by, say, one-fifth in a four-year term? Alas, the pro-life side is leery. A key part of their coalition is made up of conservative Catholics who oppose any kind of birth-control devices; others are hostile to any adoption rights for gay couples. Still others may fear that if the number of abortions drops significantly, their argument for making it completely illegal may become less salient...
...something to contribute. Sure, we should fund abstinence programs, as many pro-lifers argue. They can work for some women. But so too does expanded access to contraception. The pro-life Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, has a bill called the Prevention First Act that would expand access to birth control. Or you can focus on expanding adoption as an alternative to abortion (which means adoption by gays as well as straights). NARAL Pro-Choice America, formerly known as the National Abortion Rights Action League, actually took out an ad in the conservative Weekly Standard last month, appealing...
...internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Folic acid is one of the more essential B vitamins, especially for women of childbearing age, and a little bit - 100 micrograms a day - goes a long way toward preventing spina bifida and other birth defects. Now a major study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has confirmed what smaller studies had only hinted at: that women who consume large amounts of folate (in the region of 1,000 micrograms a day) have a lower risk of developing hypertension - for younger women...
...humiliating turn of events for an agency whose approval was once considered the world's gold standard of drug safety, especially after 1960, when it refused to approve thalidomide for use in the U.S. until it had more data and thus spared Americans the birth defects that plagued newborns in Europe and South America. In some ways, the FDA's recent troubles can be traced back to a pair of reforms that were made in the 1990s and hailed at the time as great innovations. Responding to complaints from AIDS activists and the pharmaceutical industry that drug approval was taking...