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...That’s a good try,” Summers replied. “As president of the University, it was a mistake for me to wade into a topic where I’m not an expert on all of the various kinds of research that have taken place...
...each has a part to play. So what's the new pro-choice line? Let's keep up the progress. Let's defend the right to an abortion while doing all we can to ensure that fewer and fewer women exercise it. Leave the contentious issue of Roe v. Wade for one minute, quit the ideological bickering about when life begins for a while, take down the barricades, and craft a strategy that assumes abortion will be legal for the foreseeable future, but try to reduce...
...Posner writes, “social control of science cannot be left to the scientists.” In challenging his readers to wade into the arcane debate over strangelet disasters, Posner brings particle physics to the masses. By framing cost-benefit calculations in lucid prose, Posner helps the non-economists among us make decisions in the face of unlikely but potentially earth-shattering risks...
...Posner writes, “social control of science cannot be left to the scientists.” In challenging his readers to wade into the arcane debate over strangelet disasters, Posner brings particle physics to the masses. By framing cost-benefit calculations in lucid prose, Posner helps the non-economists among us make decisions in the face of unlikely but potentially earth-shattering risks...
...Wade recognized that the right to privacy included the right to terminate a pregnancy (subject to certain limitations). The entire foundation of the right to privacy is freedom to make choices about reproduction. The right to privacy was first recognized in Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 when the Supreme Court found unconstitutional a Connecticut criminal law which prohibited the use of contraceptives by anyone (including a married couple). The only constitutional basis under which Roe v. Wade can be overturned is with a decision that the liberty protected by the constitution does not include the right to privacy...