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Although the wishes of patients and their families are often frustrated in court, lawmakers are not insensitive to their plight. Missouri Attorney General William Webster, who has led the legal fight against the Cruzans, may end up their unlikely ally. Webster realizes that few people have living wills, and that the Cruzans' ordeal has been torturous. "Without her case," he says, "I don't think people sitting in their living rooms would have to come face to face with the fact that we have thousands of patients across the country who are never going to recover. They are in this...
...care givers; that they must work for their patients' well-being; that if they cannot cure, they should at least do no harm. When they took their Hippocratic oath, they promised, "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel . . ." But the plight of the incurably ill has challenged all these premises and left doctors and nurses deeply divided over their duties to the dying...
...THEIR security becomes increasingly uncertain, Soviet Jews are left stranded by an international community that refuses to recognize or relieve their plight...
...Wild West, the steady stream of foreign visitors is not likely to resume -- even though, according to Ribeiro, only about 1 in 100 tourists will be the victim of a crime. Last year, after 528 people were murdered in April alone, President Jose Sarney sought to compare Rio's plight favorably with another land's ten-year civil war. "It's not possible that they are killing more people in Rio than in the unfortunate, cruel and unjust civil war in Lebanon," said Sarney. Perhaps. But no one ever claimed Beirut was a Carnival...
...plight of women like Jennifer and Amy will not improve until there is an overhaul of federal policy on birth control. The NAS report calls on the FDA to streamline its stringent rules for the approval of new contraceptives. The authors also recommend that pharmaceutical companies be given federal protection from liability suits so that they will be encouraged to get back into the contraceptive business. Unless something is done quickly, the situation for U.S. women may be no better in the 21st century than it is today...