Posts tagged with ‘civil rights’
With new opportunities come questions about how to interpret the avalanche of genetic information and how to protect it from improper use.
President Bush vetoed the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, which would have increased funding for the National Institutes of Health from $29 billion to $30 billion and required open access to published NIH-funded research.
Sperm banking is largely unregulated, raising controversial genetic, medical, and ethical questions. Yet the remedies are equally contentious.
There are problems galore lurking behind the baffling appointment of an anti-contraception activist to the Office of Population Affairs.
“People are either thinking about civil rights or they are thinking about climate change. Rarely are they thinking about both.” The two issues are inextricably linked, argued Majora Carter at a panel on “green collar jobs” at the Center for American Progress this Monday.
