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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?

Arthur Caplan praises the actions of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary in disclosing records concerning a variety of radiation treatments done during the Cold War without the consent or knowledge of human subjects, and for her support of restitution to the subjects

The malfeasance is very grave. Top government officials at the Atomic Energy Commission, NASA and the Public Health Service approved of experiments in which unsuspecting American soldiers were exposed to high doses of radiation, prisoners in Oregon and Washington state received large doses of radiation and compulsory vasectomies, retarded children were fed food laced with radioactive iron and calcium, seriously ill patients were given trace amounts of plutonium in doses known to be high enough to cause harm, medical students and hospital patients were injected with radioactive iron and chrome and newborn boys in four states were injected with weak doses of iodine 131, a radioactive isotope, without the explicit permission of their parents