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Your story on epigenetics was interesting and even encouraging. I imagine many existing and prospective parents may be remorsefully contemplating their lifestyles before they faced the sobering business of parenthood. I know I would. And I wouldn't consider having children based on my past lifestyles and your article. All the same, society and science sometimes seem to fall into dangerous cycles. Epigenetics smacks disturbingly of the horrific days in Soviet Russia when the mad geneticist Lysenko held sway over Russian science. I also have questions regarding sample size, causality and method. In my opinion, a closed population in northern...
After declining for more than a decade, the teen-pregnancy rate climbed 3% in 2006, with some 750,000 teenagers becoming pregnant, according to a Guttmacher Institute report. Abortions among teens increased 1%. Planned Parenthood blamed abstinence-only sex-education programs for the uptick, but the report notes that demographic changes and shifting attitudes toward pregnancy could also be factors...
...distinction under the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reforms of 2002. In a 5-4 ruling, the court found that distinction unconstitutional. If freedom of speech protects the right of individuals to air their political views, it decided, then that right extends to incorporated groups--like businesses, labor unions, Planned Parenthood and Citizens United...
...provide supplements, they will be “impractical” and unlikely (Jodi Jacobson, RH Reality Check). Insurance companies seem to understand what many Stupak supporters do not: Abortion is a solution for an unplanned pregnancy. President Obama has also indicated that Stupak goes too far (Planned Parenthood...
...debate must feel familiar to Casey, who watched his father, former Pennsylvania governor Robert P. Casey, battle with President Bill Clinton and Planned Parenthood over his pro-life stance. Governor Casey successfully defended his tightening of Pennsylvania's abortion policies all the way to the Supreme Court, and would likely have challenged Clinton for the 1996 presidential nomination if his health hadn't suddenly deteriorated (he died in 2000 at the age of 68, seven years after receiving heart and lung transplants). And so now, the son of the man often called the father of pro-life Democrats finds himself...