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This week, the Food and Drug Administration is ground zero in the American debate over abortion. The administration faces a Friday deadline to determine whether the so-called "French abortion pill," or RU-486, should be marketed in the United States. The drug, which is actually two separate pills taken under a physician's supervision over the course of two days, has been proven extremely effective in ending pregnancies up to the 50th day following conception. The drug is very different from the "morning-after pill," or emergency contraceptive, which is administered in the 24 hours following intercourse...
...life in the years since Moynihan came to work in the New Frontier. Globalization? (Global Americanization?) Triumph of markets, death of ideology, the liberating but culture-killing ascent of money as the planetary measure of worth. The Copernican change in the roles of men and women, because of the pill, the sexual revolution, the women's liberation movement and women's ascent toward power in every field? The immense environmental changes in the planet - population growth, the cancellation of global distances, the extinction of remoteness, the vanishing of species...
...there are risks in using the Pill to fool with Mother Nature. Seasonale would necessarily expose a woman to nine extra weeks of estrogen a year, and doctors have long known that taking estrogen increases a woman's risk of suffering a blood clot or stroke--particularly if she smokes or has high blood pressure. Estrogen may also boost a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, although the evidence for that is less clear...
...Life. He thinks the assisted-suicide debate misses the point: "Doctors spend 12 minutes with you, even if you have a serious illness. So we only have a couple minutes to listen to your deepest fears, but we're going to give you the black pill...
...song Purple Haze, transforming the Star-Spangled Banner into an anthem of alienation at Woodstock in 1969. In death he has become a standard by which to judge the pop stars who have come after him. Although he died at age 27 of asphyxiation brought on by a sleeping-pill overdose, and has now been dead longer than he was alive, he's still releasing attention-getting...