Month: February 2013

Helping Sick Children to Die

In some ways, the story which prompted this post is nothing new.  We have been helping sick children to die (even if one does not think of the fetus as a child) in the developed West for some time.  The Groningen Protocol, which...

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The Feminine Mystique at 50

Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is 50 and there is a lot of talk about whether we still need to read it. In the book, Janet Maslin of the New York Times writes, Friedan named “the problem with no...

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