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...Loui Itoh ’07, co-chair of the policy group and also a Crimson editorial editor, explained how the group came together this time last year with “students who had been somewhat aware of the issue” of sex trafficking and “wanted to advocate a small step towards solving...
...main responsibilities of these task forces would be to improve victim identification by law enforcement officials and the general public, increase the number of prosecutions for sex trafficking by ensuring victims would testify and by coordinating state and federal prosecution efforts, and increasing public awareness about sex trafficking, Itoh said...
...editors: I am writing in response to Loui Itoh’s column of Mar. 1 (“Not a Time To Kill”), as I believe she has overlooked an important aspect of late-term abortion. Ms. Itoh writes, “it is very difficult for me to stomach any argument for why such a procedure should ever be permitted, except to preserve the health of the mother.” However, most of the few women who seek the dilatation and extraction procedure do so out of great need. Abortion can be a cripplingly expensive...
...rare, she claims it accounts for 1 percent of all abortions. This is an incorrect statistic; D&X procedures account for only 0.17 percent of all abortions. Such procedures are not performed on healthy women whose fetuses would be able to survive indefinitely outside the mother, as Ms. Itoh claims. They are generally only done if there are serious mental or physical health problems related to the pregnancy, such as the fetus suffering from a condition that would render it unable to live outside the womb. And although the gestational age at which a fetus is able to survive outside...
...Itoh also claims that scientific evidence shows 20 to 30-week-old fetuses are more sensitive to pain and lack mechanisms to dull the effects of pain. However, a recent review of the literature published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that the neural mechanisms needed to perceive pain are not formed until 28-30 weeks...