Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...move. "It's a belated victory," said Derek Humphry of the Hemlock Society. "She should have been allowed to die in the first year of her condition." Nancy Myers of the National Right to Life Committee countered that the ruling "represents a serious decline in how our society values human life." While the Cruzans' legal odyssey is ending, their struggle has persuaded many Americans to seek to avoid the same fate. Since the Supreme Court decision, right-to-die advocates report that inquiries about living wills have surged 500-fold...
...correct that the problem isn't so much a vacuum of leadership as it is a political brawl for leadership -- among the supporters of the human genome project, the AIDS lobby, cancer researchers...
...scientific community is responsible in a major way for the paradoxes and dilemmas in which we find ourselves. The paradox is that this decay is occurring at a time when there are more opportunities than ever to ferret out the secrets of human biology and apply those secrets to the reduction of human suffering. The dilemma is that we must obtain more funding for the support of this effort in order to capitalize on those opportunities and improve the morale of the scientific community, while at the same time acknowledging that we have been generously supported for the past...
...make some difficult choices. Is too much being spent on AIDS? Is the human genome project overfunded...
...impossible to increase significantly the federal budget for health-sciences research in the near future, then I would favor reducing funding for the human genome initiative and even for AIDS. I stand with the priorities I outlined, and I realize that means we can't have business as usual...