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...must now be "the Good Samaritan of the entire world," helping feed "all the people of the world who . . . are hungry and destitute." But such efforts will fail unless animated by American ideals -- love of freedom, equality of opportunity, self-reliance but also cooperation, together with "all the great principles of Western civilization" -- justice, truth, charity. "It now becomes our time to be the powerhouse from which the ideals spread . . . and do their mysterious work of lifting the life of mankind from the level of the beasts to what the psalmist called a little lower than the angels." Other nations...
...cannot engineer, let alone finance, the success of the free market everywhere. Nor can it be the Good Samaritan to the whole world, although well-targeted foreign aid should continue. But the U.S. must help by seeking an open trading system in which underdeveloped countries can sell their products. Above all, the U.S. must push for economic and political reforms, offering advice and entrepreneurial guidance; one can imagine the Peace Corps being followed by a Development Corps...
Debi Lane's nightmare began last November with a routine thyroid test. When she returned for the results the next day, doctors at the Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa, Ariz., had chilling news. "There's been a terrible mistake," they told the 41-year-old mother of four. "Basically, we've killed your thyroid...
...vitro fertilization program operated by the Howard and Georgeanna Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va. But three implants failed. The Yorks, who last year moved from New Jersey to California, asked the institute to ship their frozen embryo to a comparable facility at Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital, where Dr. Richard Marrs was prepared to supervise its implantation. Much to the couple's surprise, Jones refused, arguing that the consent agreement signed by the Yorks gave them no rights to the embryo outside his institute's jurisdiction. In effect, Jones contended, the Yorks have only four choices: they...
...prejudging the York case, many ethicists believe that as a general rule, a couple's primary claim to use of its embryo has a sound basis in law and common sense. "When a physician starts owning embryos and making decisions for his patients," says Marrs, co-founder of Good Samaritan's Institute for Reproductive Research, "there'll be no stopping anyone who has anything to do with pregnancy from getting involved." The Roman Catholic Church, in company with many conservative Protestant groups, opposes all in vitro fertilization. Nonetheless, the Yorks have received moral support in their suit from the Right...