February 27, 2007 – 2:48 pm
I don’t think I can really comment on this article. I find it too disturbing…Disabled Newborns Likely to Face Death, originally published in the AFA Journal. Granted, they are only opening the subject up for debate, and it is little surprise that Peter Singer would be offering his support. But the Church [...]
January 29, 2007 – 3:12 am
At what point does overfeeding a child constitute medical neglect? In Britain, childhood obesity could result in removal from the home.
Social workers are placing obese children on the child protection register alongside victims thought to be at risk of sexual or physical abuse.
In extreme cases children have been placed in foster care because their [...]
January 23, 2007 – 3:32 pm
The desire for the government to provide for “the common good” via a large array of schemes is as old as our government. Presidents Washington and Madison both desired a national university in Washington, D.C. The importance of education has often been at the root of a debate about just what the [...]
January 22, 2007 – 5:22 am
Suicide is a horrific and traumatic event for everyone connected to it. The victims most likely suffer months or even years of emotional anguish, perhaps in silence and perhaps not taken seriously by those closest to them. Family members are thrown into a desperate world of blame, guilt, regret and simply not understanding [...]
January 3, 2007 – 5:09 am
In a study funded in part by the charity Cancer Research UK, 218,169 women from nine European countries were followed for an average of a little over six years to track the benefits of different kinds of exercise in preventing breast cancer.
Pre-menopausal women who did housework were found to be about 30% less likely to [...]