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...across the aisle, where one would anticipate an equal and opposite reaction of elation, the FDA's decision has left many pro-choice advocates strangely unsatisfied. For although RU-486 has been completely cleared for public consumption, that clearance is tampered with a long list of restrictions that pro-choice supporters claim reduce its effectiveness for those who would wish to use it. These advocates assert that the stipulations that the FDA has placed upon the pill will serve to counter the majority of the pill's positive effects...
...guidelines regulating the use of RU-486 so that the procedure can be used to the benefit of a larger percentage of the population. Their arguments are three-fold: First, that the drug is far safer than a traditional surgical procedure, given its lower rate of complications. Second, that although the cost of RU-486 is comparable to the cost of a surgical abortion, the nation's largest insurance companies (including Aetna, Inc. and Cigna Corporation), have announced their intention to incorporate the pill as part of their standard coverage. Most significantly, these staunch supporters believe that RU-486 will...
Avraham S. Steinberg '02 said the new rule "isn't the worse thing in the world, but I think the smoking should stay." Although he does not smoke, he said he thinks "the Boylston steps are a place of international flavor...
...with his people - and the wider Arab world - enraged by Israel's actions, Arafat may be reluctant to be seen to be too easily drawn into new deals. Reports from the West Bank and Gaza suggest that efforts may already be underway to implement the cease-fire terms, although new clashes were reported in Gaza. But the breakdown in summitry is an indicator of the extent to which the recent violence may have reversed progress towards a final-status peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians...
...study coordinators admit spanking is a sensitive subject (no pun intended). Many parents are torn between carrying on their own parents? tried-and-true disciplinary practices and their discomfort with the idea of hitting their kids. Fierce opponents of spanking compare it to child abuse - although logically, a quick swat to the rear-end is hardly analogous to the horrors of beating a child. Fair-minded people can disagree on this - as long as we?re actually talking about a quick swat, rather than a "let?s you, me and my belt go out behind the woodshed, son" scenario...