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...extent that genetic engineering is dangerous, the danger must lie with the parents rather than the children. The greatest concern of Will and of Leon Kass, the ethicist whose work he cites, is that the genetic engineering would invert the Nicene Creed: children would be created, not begotten--human artifacts bereft of mystery, dignity and individual worth. Parents would consider their children as playthings; in short, humans would play...
Levin's opinion provoked outrage from lawyers and editorialists alike. "Everyone should have a level playing field when they walk into a courtroom," said JTC executive director Paul Fischer. "How can it be fair when the judge is sleeping with one of the attorneys?" Said New York University legal ethicist Stephen Gillers: "There's no way of soft-pedaling Chrzanowski's conduct, no way of defending it.'' Wrote the Detroit Free Press: "There's surely something wrong with a system that can't hold [Chrzanowski] accountable." The judge's supporters are few. In her own defense, Chrzanowski released a statement...
...Florida clinic where Dr. David Gunn was murdered seven years ago. Experts liken this debate to the one over physician-assisted suicide: "A lot of doctors believe in it but say they won't do it themselves because they don't need the hassle," says George Annas, a medical ethicist at Boston University School of Public Health. "They don't want to get involved in a public debate...
...activists, the point of the debate about late-term abortion was to draw tight the line between abortion and murder. Mifepristone, argue its supporters, makes abortion look more like birth control, "more like a standard medical treatment than something that has been marginalized and ghetto-ized," notes Boston University ethicist Annas. But even greater availability and a higher comfort level among patients do not mean the total number of abortions will necessarily rise. During the decade that the pill has been available in France, more and more women--now 29%--have chosen medical over surgical abortion, but the availability...
Along with his wife, who was able to care for him full time, he had a circle of close friends that included a couple of nurses, one of them a bereavement counselor; an ethicist who specialized in medical issues; several doctors; and a former patient, Steve Kalafer, who years earlier had been treated by Frimmer for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, now in remission...