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...improved settlement proposal (Distillers had initially offered $6,000,000) was a personal victory for David Mason, a London art dealer whose ten-year-old daughter was born crippled because of the drug. Mason had to contend with not only Distillers but scores of other angry thalidomide parents who wanted to take the company's earlier offers. As a result of his holding out for a larger settlement, Mason received abusive phone calls, bomb threats, and was even punched while walking in London. The new offer by Distillers was also a triumph for the London Sunday Times, which risked...
Hard Times and the CTOC contend that the plan would destroy more blue-collar jobs than it would create, and that it also fails to provide any low-income housing. The Council will study the plan in subcommittee meetings before reaching any decision...
Clearly there is a financial burden for the parents, since most public schools consider Mongoloids only marginally capable of coping with a classroom situation, and therefore deny them entrance. Most institutions contend that these children are at best merely "trainable" or "educable." However, it is of particular interest that no single religious or socio-economic group has a monopoly on couples who refuse consent for necessary surgical correction in such cases...
...parents can see their creation and decide whether it is worth keeping. However, this infanticide, an example of euthenasia, is at present deemed criminal homicide, despite the motive of mercy. Most legal experts dispel claims that passivity is not as culpable as a positive act of murder. They contend inaction is tantamount to action when there is a duty to act, and most moralists would agree...
...have only presented in capsulated from some of the issue of contemporary medical ethics. Although our biases in the following pages will inevitably be transparent, we attempt only to enlighten our readers to the issues. For clearly all of society must now contend with these problems. We cannot give tacit consent to physicians to behave in manners subject only to the judgment of their own consciences. For their profession is not a private affair: they must be subject to the evaluation of their individual clientele and responsible to the society at large. Historically, sanction by silence has inveitably...