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One method is to "urge" those at risk of giving birth to children with problems, such as mothers who have hepatitis, to seek the permission of the state prior to procreation. Another is to "encourage" mothers found to be carrying children with birth defects such as spina bifida, deafness, mental retardation or AIDS to terminate their pregnancies

Opposing viewpoints on whether smokers should be denied coronary bypass surgery unless they quit smoking are offered. One man says it's a matter of who will benefit most from the surgery, while another says denying a person access to surgery based upon behavior seems far too moralistic

Fessing up to wrongdoing, even wrongdoing that is decades old, in your own department is not likely to endear [Hazel O'Leary] to the spin doctors and risk managers of the [Clinton] administration or Congress. Going the next step and declaring that government ought to be prepared to compensate those it has harmed means that O'Leary had better prepare herself for a lot of lonely nights as she is scratched off the A-list for Washington parties and banquets

Fessing up to wrongdoing, even wrongdoing that is decades old, in your own department is not likely to endear [Hazel O'Leary] to the spin doctors and risk managers of the [Clinton] administration or Congress. Going the next step and declaring that government ought to be prepared to compensate those it has harmed means that O'Leary had better prepare herself for a lot of lonely nights as she is scratched off the A-list for Washington parties and banquets

How could U.S. government officials have sanctioned these experiments? How could researchers from such elite schools and institutions as M.I.T., Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, the University of Tennessee and the University of Oregon have gotten involved with such patently immoral research?