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Indeed, some people are already putting medical theory into practice. "There's a philosophy in parts of the gay community that says its okay to take some risks in having sex," says Dr. Dan Bowers, a senior partner in Pacific Oaks Medical Group in Beverly Hills, Calif., one of the country's largest private practices treating the HIV/AIDS community. Based on results of lab studies that suggest ARVs may confer some protective benefit when taken prior to virus exposure, some people have begun self-administering the drugs like a morning-after pill, in the hopes that the drugs' pre-exposure...
...Romney loves talking about the same thing that the real Romney loves talking about: how to maximize economic theory, improve trade, write off capital expenditures and make more money for everyone. He will speak lovingly about circuit board innovations, and fiber optic technology, and health care policy - rather than gay marriage or abortion. He will speak about numbers and statistics in a way that connects with an audience, not because he is interesting, but because no one can doubt that he knows his stuff. In Michigan, it was a convincing act that brought him victory, along with his family name...
...Gay rights organizations in France and across Europe hailed the ruling for taking on one of the main kinds of discrimination homosexuals continue to face. Some conservatives, however, were equally outspoken in condemning the decision. Michèle Tabarot, a member of parliament for the ruling conservative Movement for a Popular Majority, and the president of France's Superior Council on Adoption, said "the judges are overstepping their role by going beyond what the law says, and by imposing their conception" of justice. Tabarot also noted that French rules allow singles to adopt in order to open more homes...
...Indeed, Tuesday's ruling, in many ways, represents a back door to equal treatment. Franck Tanguy, spokesman for France's Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents, says "this ruling is a step in the right direction" in that it "requires countries that, like France, allow singles to adopt children to treat unmarried homosexual and heterosexual applicants in exactly the same manner." Failure to do so in any country with such legislation, Tanguy says, means they'd "find themselves condemned again and again for discrimination by the many single homosexuals who'd use this precedent to base a legal defense...
...Nine European countries currently permit gay and lesbian couples to adopt children: Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, the U.K., and Sweden. Tuesday's ruling may be a boon for single homosexuals seeking to adopt children where unwed heterosexuals are allowed to do so. But Tanguy says it may also cause countries to shelve any plans to allow straight unmarried couples to adopt in order to keep gays and lesbians from doing the same...