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...other reasons you say you're a bad mother is that you aborted a son who may or may not have had serious health issues. Are you nervous about how that's going to be received? He had a genetic abnormality, and that abnormality could have resulted in mental retardation and it also - the chances were more likely that you wouldn't have necessarily known anything was wrong. I expect that people who are pro-life will respond negatively, and, in fact, I'd sort of be disappointed if they didn't. But when I went through this experience...
...promoting this statistic, MenSpeakUp fails to elaborate. If it did, it would become clear that this statistic does not refer exclusively to women who were the victims of serious sexual assault—for instance, rape—but includes women who report so little as having engaged in unwanted sexual acts. This is a fairly low threshold, if ever there were...
...greedy drug companies eager to exclude difficult patients in order to show better results. "If the population in a [clinical] trial were more representative, that would come at a cost," he says. Researchers expect a certain number of bad reactions during clinical trials; some of these reactions can cause serious medical problems. If patients enter a trial with multiple complications - if they are, say, not only depressed, but also cocaine-addicted, hypertensive and diabetic - you dramatically increase the chances of adverse side effects. "That's why trials to determine efficacy are done on a relatively homogeneous population," Wisniewski says...
...Capitol Hill, however, legislators from both parties expressed reluctance to unconditionally bail out Zardari's government, expressing sharp criticism of his handling of the fight against extremism in his country and skepticism over the Obama Administration's claims that Islamabad if finally getting serious about that fight. At the Holbrooke hearing, Democratic Representative Gary Ackerman of New York said, "Pakistan's pants are on fire, but ... they don't recognize the risk [they...
...Also, the Obama Administration has made it clear that Canada needs to step up with a serious rescue package for Chrysler and General Motors if it wants a voice in how the North American auto industry is restructured. But it's already a silent partner, receiving just 2% of Chrysler and one director on the new board in exchange for $3.2 billion in support. That's poor payback, says Jack Layton, head of the New Democratic Party, Canada's fourth largest federal party, which enjoys strong union ties. "The government did not fight hard enough for job and production-share...