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HOLD THE TUNA An FDA advisory panel has urged the agency to warn pregnant women to limit the amount of canned tuna they eat because it contains mercury, which can harm the nervous system of an unborn child. (Last year the FDA advised pregnant women not to eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel or tilefish, but it did not include tuna on the list.) Health officials say there is no need for women to cut out tuna entirely but advise that it may be prudent to limit consumption to one can a week if they eat other fish...
...effects before participating. A drug that is only in the testing stages should be regarded as unsafe until proved otherwise. It is outrageous that a physician would allow a pregnant woman to take part in a test. Are we so hungry for cures that we are willing to risk unborn human lives? JENNIFER HOYDICZ Ridgefield...
...they are lethal genetic defects, like the ones that cause Huntington's disease or cystic fibrosis. "Let's say that a decade from now we know all the genes for autism," suggests Bryna Siegel, a psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco. "And let's say your unborn child has four of these genes. We may be able to tell you that 80% of the people with those four genes will be fully autistic but that the other 20% will perform in the gifted mathematical range...
...claiming that it benefits both mother (right to abortion is right to life for her) and child (better to be terminated than born into non-ideal circumstances). I thank MacKenzie for placing abortion on the same historical trajectory as slavery, and I look forward to the eventual emancipation of unborn children...
...will never know that it might have lived. Its mother, however, is conscious. The characterization of those who have abortions as cold, callow murderers is an unfair rhetorical ploy. The great majority of those who elect to have abortions do so not out of a joy of slaughtering unborn babies, but out of necessity. They inevitably agonize over the decision, both before and for many years afterwards. Yet, for many reasons, they simply cannot have a child. To bring such a child into the world—a world which, at present, cannot support it?...