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...because of the government's ban on funding IVF research, the scientists haven't been able to begin their work. "Britain and Australia are surpassing us in research because of the restraints we face in this country," says Harvard's Ryan. "The U.S. government has created a moral vacuum...
...where there is a moral vacuum, there are lawsuits. Around the country, a number of bizarre court cases have cropped up as a result of ambiguities in the rules governing the new technologies. In one peculiar case, a wealthy couple died in a plane accident, leaving two frozen embryos as their only direct heirs; a court decided that the embryos could not inherit the estate. In a case that is still pending, a divorced Tennessee couple are battling over whether the woman has the right to make use of frozen embryos created while the couple were still married...
...Gorbasm is fake." Listeners who agree with Rush shout "Mega-dittos" as a greeting. Those who don't agree, he says, endanger his concept of "safe talk" (to guarantee which Limbaugh once placed a condom over his microphone) and may get a "caller abortion." They are cut off, with vacuum-cleaner noises and a woman's scream in the background...
...David Dukes will fill the political vacuum. Duke carries a banner bashing "tax-'n'-spend" liberals, "Big Government" and affirmative action. He calls on welfare recipients "to work for their welfare checks." He laments that "there is no room in the jails." And he wraps himself in the rhetoric of the working middle class...
While the debate unfolds, both the traditional and progressive approaches are likely to roll along side by side -- and rightly so, since teaching about sexual behavior in a moral vacuum would not serve young people well, any more than ignoring the practical pressures to experiment with sex and drugs that they confront each day. Any AIDS education should be coupled with programs about drug and alcohol abuse, in order to address all the risk factors that intertwine. School is by no means the only, or even always the best, place for this to happen. In Columbia, S.C., a beauty-shop...