Biomedical subjects
R Alta Charo
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Update on the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
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Principles and pragmatism.
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Roundtable: the politics of genetic testing.
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The Human Genome Initiative, women's rights and reproductive decisions.
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Life after Casey: the view from Rehnquist's Potemkin Village.
The U.S. Supreme Court's most recent pronouncement on abortion rights [Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey] resembles the dieter's dilemma: one knows exactly how to get where one is going but lacks the willpower to follow through. In an opinion filled with exceptionally progressive, equality-based arguments for reproductive freedom, the Court nonetheless manages to back away from its own ineluctably drawn conclusions. In the end it not only ignores its own best arguments but eviscerates its previous analyses of fundamental rights and judicial protection of personal liberties from the excesses of the polity.
Effect of the Human Genome Initiative on women's rights and reproductive decisions.
The Human Genome Project is likely to exacerbate historic tendencies to balance demographic concerns on the backs of women. This kind of policy is unjustified in law and violates classic theories of justice. Reproductive decision making, which affects women personally, is not the legitimate domain of community concern or manipulation.
Protecting us to death: women, pregnancy, and clinical research trials.
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