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...adult-stem-cell breakthrough makes the research easier by offering scientists more options, but advances in genetics make the issue of reproduction harder. Couples can screen out embryos for cystic fibrosis and cancer risk. Should they also be allowed to screen for blond, for smart, for straight or gay? We are on a road toward reproduction that doesn't require eggs and sperm at all. This is a moral wilderness, full of hope and traps. I don't expect aspiring parents to bring order to it when all they want is to survive the journey and make a family. That...
...conservative as they were in the Archie Bunker days. During Vietnam, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley--the quintessential lunch-pail Democrat--sent cops to bust the heads of hippie protesters. Today his son, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, opposes the Iraq war, promotes environmentalism and marches in gay-pride parades...
...forum featured two colleagues in Cambridge government: former Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72—the first openly gay African American mayor in the country—and his successor, Mayor E. Denise Simmons, who identifies as both African American and lesbian...
...mayor recalled an incident early in her political career, when she received a letter “against gay marriage” from “the black clergy”—a group she described as “conspicuously absent” from other debates...
...Simmons was more optimistic about the state of gay African Americans in Cambridge today, saying “we’ve evolved since then...