Word: medicale
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Last week's hearings came at an important time for both sides in the abortion fight. Next month the Supreme Court will hear the first serious challenge to Roe v. Wade since it became law. The original decision was based in part on the court's conviction that legal abortion...
The Administration's criticism of the contras, whom Reagan described as "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers," comes almost six years after they announced that schools and medical clinics are considered legitimate military targets.
Adults could be wrongly branded as well. Life- and medical-insurance companies might one day require that potential customers have their genes screened, presumably so that people likely to develop fatal or disabling diseases could be charged higher premiums, or possibly turned away. Insurers have already used a similar policy...
Scientists agree that it would be reprehensible to try to move too far in the direction of genetic uniformity. "The improvement and enhancement of genetics to some sort of optimum is not a function of medicine," observes the University of Minnesota's Caplan. "Very soon the medical fields are going...
No geneticist is currently planning to transfer genes to human germ cells. Even though mankind has been playing God since biblical times, rearranging the germ lines of crops and farm animals to suit human needs, researchers do not advocate extending such genetic tinkering to people. But medical scientists have an...