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...doctor should not have to wait to give medical care because a parent needs to be notified. However, such a requirement should not even be an issue, as parental notification, regardless of the exemptions or exceptions, should not be required by any state. The costs of parental notification laws outweigh the benefits. Notification opens up the abortion-seeker to abuse and coercion from her parents. In theory, one might suppose that a law requiring parental notification except if the daughter fears abuse would prevent parents from hurting their children. However, data show that child abuse and sexual abuse are underreported...
...eliminating the benefit to children who do well by adoption.” Ortiz, who worked for a variety of non-governmental organizations on children’s rights before joining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, said that the current problems facing transnational adoption outweigh the benefits that children may receive. She cited unnecessary separations due to monetary incentives, lack of government oversight, and a lack of cooperation between international and domestic adoption agencies as the main flaws in the present system. Ortiz suggested that a system which involved increased government oversight and fewer separations between...
...like to do it in Freiburg, but we can't," Salvamoser says. "Building a new plant costs €70 million and you can get subsidies in east Germany, Taiwan and almost anywhere else." Joachim Luther, head of the Fraunhofer Solar Research Institute in Freiburg, says cost considerations outweigh the attractions of the city's high concentration of solar know-how: "We've tried to attract some of the big solar-cell manufacturers, but it costs half as much to invest in east Germany as it does here." Freiburg's green dreams still face plenty of obstacles, but given what...
...said Richard M. Doerflinger, deputy director of the secretariat for pro-life activities in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.Given the success of existing methods of creating embryonic stem cell lines, Eggan and Lensch both said that the moral obligation towards the sick and dying far outweigh any moral obligation towards a clump of cells.“I’m in this field because I have people close to me that have gotten some pretty terrible diseases,” said Lensch. “I have made a commitment in my life to help them?...
...Through this new vehicle, several countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden pledged to increase GAVI’s efforts in the next ten years and have already guaranteed $4 billion.“The benefits of a push for increased immunization are likely to heavily outweigh the costs, and policy makers who neglect immunization will be missing a great opportunity for promoting development,” the study said.—Staff writer Giselle Barcia can be reached at gbarcia@fas.harvard.edu...