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By Michele Goodwin The Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan is being sued for accommodating the request made by a parent that no African Americans tend to his newborn. The father, who allegedly sported a…
By Michele Goodwin In the wake of an election season peppered with references to rape by legislators vying for reelection or elevation to more prominent political positions: Representative Todd Akin’s woefully unscientific claim that “legitimate”…
By Michele Goodwin Posted from Amsterdam I was in India when the tragic news hit; 26 people dead–20 of them children in a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14,…
By Michele Goodwin The most sophisticated medical technologies are available in the United States. The luxury afforded elite health care consumers is best captured by “executive health care” and “personalized” medicines. Given the tailored health…
By Michele Goodwin Penn State’s former president, Graham Spanier, is the latest person to be charged in the fallout involving Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of boys on the Penn State campus. A year ago, I…
By Michele Goodwin Across the country, children under the age of fourteen are being convicted of rape for engaging in consensual sex with children of similar age. In Utah, a child who commits “more than…
By Michele Goodwin In recent months, women’s reproduction has been in the spotlight. A few weeks ago, the Republican Party adopted an anti-abortion platform calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion and making no exception…
By Michele Goodwin For all the attention by legal scholars, doctors, and politicians to the global organ shortage—and particularly the crisis in the United States, relatively little is said about tissue demand and that supply…
