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Human Nature: Science, Technology, and Life.
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Tomorrow night, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin will meet in their only vice-presidential debate . Most of the discussion will be about economics and foreign policy. On the social issues, here are two questions moderator Gwen Ifill should ask. 1. Gov. Palin, Read More...
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In yesterday's post on the proposed HHS abortion "conscience" regulation , I overlooked a very important quote from Secretary Leavitt. Rob Stein of the Washington Post relates the following exchange from Leavitt's Aug. 21 conference call with reporters: Read More...
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HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt has issued a final version of his proposed regulation to protect medical conscience (PDF). As predicted, he has dropped the sentence that originally defined abortion as "any of the various procedures—including the prescription, Read More...
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Last Tuesday, I wrote about a draft regulation, circulated by the Department of Health and Human Services, that would protect the right of private employees to refuse to facilitate any abortifacient chemical or activity. The draft rule defined abortion Read More...
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Starting this week, under orders from the state attorney general and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8 th Circuit , medical providers in South Dakota must present a scripted statement to women who seek abortions. The script, dictated by the legislature Read More...
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Look who's flirting with animal rights. In recent days, the New York Times has published two in-house commentaries on Spain's move to legislate rights for apes. "We like to think of these as absolutes: that there are distinct lines between humans and Read More...
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The movement to stamp out birth control appears to have taken an ominous turn. Until now, women with contraceptive prescriptions were just being turned down by individual pharmacists. Now they're being turned down by whole pharmacies. Refusals from individuals Read More...
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A lot of people in China are angry. The earthquake that struck there two weeks ago has destroyed their entire stock of the country's most strictly rationed item: children. Here's the background from the New York Times : Thousands of parents have openly Read More...
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If you're tired of reading about how dead Hillary Clinton is or how long it'll take her to admit it, fly with me across the Atlantic for a couple of minutes. A monumental debate is going on in the British House of Commons over the Human Fertilisation Read More...
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Wow. Chastity belts . Here's the report from Indonesia, courtesy of Paul Watson in Sunday's L.A. Times : In a bid to prevent any hanky-panky between masseuses and their clients, several massage parlors ... are insisting that the women wear padlocks across Read More...
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I feel strangely obliged to say something about today's dog-food story. No, I'm not talking about food for dogs. I wish I were. I'm talking about making food from dogs —and serving it to people. Yes, this is happening. It's been happening for a long time. Read More...
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