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...harsh punishment, it is unclear whether anything weaker would effectively deter Microsoft from continuing its monopolistic practices. Conduct remedies that left Microsoft structurally intact but placed rules on its behavior would likely be evaded by the software giant; the antitrust case grew out of Microsoft's circumvention of a consent decree not to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows. Imposing permanent regulations on Microsoft's actions would thus require constant judicial monitoring (and constant appeals from Microsoft) to ensure compliance...
Eight years after its last major ruling on abortion, the Supreme Court stands posed to write a new chapter in the history of reproductive law. Most of the abortion-related decisions since Roe v. Wade have been concerned with the process surrounding abortions--state rules requiring parental consent, spousal notice, waiting periods, information, record keeping--and not the abortion procedures themselves. However, Stenberg v. Carhart, argued last Tuesday before the court, gives the justices an opportunity to clarify the constitutionality of bans on certain abortion procedures, specifically so-called "partial-birth abortions." In the past five years, 30 states have...
...uncles, cousins or sympathetic strangers--can make decisions on behalf of children, though a child can sometimes initiate the agency investigation that would determine a parent's fitness. The major exception in this area is the right of teenage girls in some states to get an abortion without parental consent. That also happens to be one of the most hotly contested areas of abortion rights, which is why 39 states have passed laws that require a girl to notify or get permission from a parent...
...readily available and easily harvested. In fertility clinics, women are given a choice of what to do with unused fertilized embryos: they can be discarded, donated to research or frozen for future use. Under NIH supervision, scientists should be allowed to take cells only from women who freely consent to their use for research. This process would not be open ended; within one to two years a sufficient number could be gathered and made available to investigators. For those reasons, the ban on federally funded human embryonic stem-cell research should be lifted as quickly as possible...
...very significant enforcement apparatus," says Ed Black, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association. Microsoft's critics complain that the company doesn't act in good faith: they point out that this case was filed in the first place when Justice determined Microsoft had violated a 1995 consent agreement. Enforcement mechanisms have their own problems. Almost nobody--inside Microsoft or out of it--wants the Federal Government overseeing Microsoft's business decisions and product designs...