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Another issue Cook addresses in his novel is that infertility clinics operate with what he considers insufficient government oversight. “Nobody seems to be doing anything about it,” Cook explains, “because something that touches, or even perceives to touch, the abortion issue, becomes very highly politicized.” As a result, Cook says, clinics have fallen through the cracks. “There’s also the problem that infertility specialists are the highest-paid physicians today,” he adds. “It’s kind...
...anthropologists and other investigators expect to spend the next eight months and many millions of dollars extracting bodies in every stage of decomposition--it did not come as a complete surprise to those who study the death industry. For years critics have been calling for better state and federal oversight of such businesses. While the vast majority of funeral directors and crematory operators do their job honorably, there is plenty of room for abuse, and every so often a scandal spurs a flurry of proposed regulations. But in most cases they don't go anywhere or, if they do, they...
...regulations governing crematories--though often not enough inspectors to enforce them. In nine states there are no regulations at all--aside from some limits on emissions. In Maryland the legislature has shot down crematory regulation two years in a row. Steve Sklar, director of the state office of cemetery oversight, hopes it will reconsider now. Solid legislation, he says, for a case like the Marshes' "may not stop the first 10 bodies. But you certainly will stop the next...
...What's spurring this underage boozy behavior? Some point fingers at lax government oversight and barely enforced age limits on drinking. Others, including CASA, place much of the blame on advertisers. Critics charge that sweet, crayon-hued drinks in ads are designed specifically to nab young drinkers. CASA is particularly unhappy with NBC, the only network to break the 50-year voluntary ban on running liquor ads on television...
...critics, such arguments seem like moral fig leaves. They view cc as an ethical dry run for human cloning, and they're troubled by how the rehearsal is going. "Once cloning is on its own as a commercial enterprise, there really is no oversight," says Lori Gruen, a Wesleyan University ethics professor who generally supports cloning research. Could a culture that can't agree on the morality of using human embryos to create stem cells tolerate a technology in which 86 human embryos have to die to create an 87th? "Why do it?" asks Pacelle. "It seems...