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...rejected it as an “undue burden” on the right to get an abortion. Nothing short of a woman’s right to choose is at stake here.Much has been made of the fact that Alito concurred with the 2000 opinion Planned Parenthood v. Farmer, which struck down a partial-birth abortion ban. But he was simply following the precedent of the Supreme Court’s ruling from earlier that year in Stenberg v. Carhart. We disagree that this concurrence demonstrates any sort of moderation in Alito’s views on abortion rights.Many...
...Western-trained physician who has practiced even briefly in a poor country is acutely aware of how inequitably money and medical care are distributed in the world. Farmer, who grew up in a Florida trailer park, has developed what Kidder calls a "comprehensive theory of poverty," which Farmer elaborates on in books that are surprisingly angry for so gentle a man. In Pathologies of Power (2003), his most recent, he argues that the only antidote for the "structural violence" that keeps the poor too sick to climb out of the hole they are in is to treat health care...
...Farmer is, above all, a gifted clinician, and he developed in Haiti something he calls "the P.I.H. model," a formula for administering first-class health care in dirt-poor settings. Every AIDS or TB patient is assigned a paid health worker, or accompagnateur--generally a friend, relative or neighbor--who will handle the drugs and make sure they are taken on schedule. The patient is also given what the doctors hope will be enough food for a family of five. "You can't take these meds on an empty stomach," Farmer explains, "and you can't treat a wasting disease...
...effectiveness of the model is evident when Farmer does checkups on AIDS patients after their first few weeks on ARVs. Hadija, 11, pretty in a pink dress, has gained nearly 7 lbs.; she shyly admits that her diarrhea has cleared up. Clementine, 35, a genocide widow with two children, has gained 9 lbs. but complains that pain from shingles makes it hard for her to work. Damascene, 14, has put on an astonishing 22 lbs., but Farmer senses that something's wrong; the boy's belly is distended with fluid. He gives the accompagnateur 2,000 francs (about...
...that's just a fraction of the estimated 250,000 HIV-positive Rwandans who need food, housing, clean water and schools as well as medicine. The Global Fund subsidizes the drugs, but donors are reluctant to pay for the calories, arguing that food aid is never-ending and "unsustainable." Farmer, ever the optimist, is undismayed. "You start down this slippery slope," he says, "but it's a slippery slope that leads to better health care for poor people, so I say, Let's slide down...