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...with Khazei on one major point: health care. We certainly appreciate the strong pro-choice position taken by Capuano, who says he opposes the health-care bill so long as it contains the Stupak amendment restricting abortion rights. We urge a Senator Capuano to vote for health-care reform regardless of the amendment—and we ultimately have faith that he will do so. Unlike one of his opponents, Attorney General Martha M. Coakley, he has not ruled it out entirely, saying that the current bill is still miles away from the final version and that many things...
Former inhabitants of the region also face a higher risk than those who have never lived in the South, regardless of race, the study found. White former residents are 20 percent more likely and black former residents are 9 percent more likely to suffer stroke-related deaths...
...those concepts would break the traditional fee-for-service model, in which the more treatment doctors and hospitals give, the more they get paid - regardless of whether what they are doing is necessary or even beneficial for the patient. And each is likely to draw heavy flak from health care providers who see their autonomy - and their incomes - in jeopardy...
...claim that this fact deprives them of their “right to choose” merits further inspection. First, it implies that abortion is the kind of thing that women not only have a right to obtain, but also that they have a right to obtain regardless of whether they can pay for it. To illustrate the difference, this argument likens abortion to the right to an attorney; if you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you. Contrast this with my right to ride the subway—I certainly...
...China has every right to strike bilateral deals with other nations, regardless of the terms. But if it persists in failing to consider the moral responsibilities that come along with visible leadership in a globalized world, China risks losing that very leadership itself...