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...reintroduce Bush to America as an honest broker and surefooted guide who could reach a place of clean common sense. His address Thursday night raised all the hard questions without answering any of them: Is an embryo growing in a Petri dish the same as one growing in a womb? Is it O.K. to experiment on it if it's going to be destroyed anyway? When they grapple with these questions, politicians and scientists are often accused of playing God. On issues this morally and scientifically mysterious, Bush knew, humility was the better part of wisdom. He avoided playing national...
Yang's attitude should hearten China's womb police, who have spent two decades attempting to control the nation's population. They have succeeded remarkably well. Today the average Chinese woman has two children, compared with six 30 years ago. "For all the bad press, China has achieved the impossible," says Sven Burmester, the U.N. Population Fund representative in Beijing. "The country has solved its population problem...
...pointing out what they see as philosophical inconsistencies of those on the right who have taken an independent approach to the issue of stem cells. Senator Orrin Hatch, a staunch right-to-lifer, makes a distinction between an embryo in a petri dish and one inside a woman's womb. So does Connie Mack, another committed right-to lifer. They both suggest that embryos outside a woman's uterus are not potential life and can be used for research. "Ha!," those on the left seem to be responding, "if you really were a philosophical purist about the right-to-life...
...tested for fetal-heart surgery. Douglas Boyd, who heads the National Center for Advanced Surgery and Robotics in London, Ont., believes that robots' minimally invasive techniques could vastly improve fetal surgery's current 90% failure rate, which he says is primarily a result of the trauma placed on the womb by traditional surgical techniques. "Robots aren't just million-dollar sewing machines," says Boyd. "They are bringing a real revolution in heart surgery...
...come out of the womb with your mother telling you how terrific you are, and you just go on believing...