Word: coercion
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...have been very candid about your mistakes: that your team accepted eggs from two of its own members, and also paid volunteers for eggs. How big an ethical lapse is this? They donated their eggs voluntarily without any coercion and their direct expenses were paid...
...parent needs to be notified. However, such a requirement should not even be an issue, as parental notification, regardless of the exemptions or exceptions, should not be required by any state. The costs of parental notification laws outweigh the benefits. Notification opens up the abortion-seeker to abuse and coercion from her parents. In theory, one might suppose that a law requiring parental notification except if the daughter fears abuse would prevent parents from hurting their children. However, data show that child abuse and sexual abuse are underreported. Young girls may be so afraid of their parents that they would...
...despite such evidence, few confessions are ever thrown out. According to Richard J. Ofshe, a social psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert in false confessions, only recently have juries been allowed to hear testimony about the phenomenon, which can occur as a result of coercion, exhaustion or mental impairment. The juries in the Norfolk trials were not among those. Many experts say the solution is to require police to videotape all interrogations and confessions of suspects in capital cases, as is the law in Minnesota, Illinois, Alaska and Maine...
...Hwang said the egg donations by his subordinates?unethical due to the possibility of coercion?were done without his knowledge, and that the donors begged him to deny a May 2004 report on their actions in the journal Nature. But the cover-up began to come undone on Nov. 12, when Hwang's main international collaborator abruptly ended their partnership, citing ethical concerns. On Nov. 21, Hwang's associate Roh Sung Il admitted that he had paid about 20 women $1,500 each for their eggs, a practice since declared illegal. "I had to keep it secret," Roh told Time...
...businesses are canceling employees' retirement plans. Never have I read such forthright material, stripping away all the spin and directly addressing an economic situation that will devastate all too many middle-class Americans. I appreciate the honest manner in which the report exposed both the coercion of corporations and the complicity of Congress. WILLIAM OVERLY Lancaster...