Groupe Roussel-Uclaf has announced its intention to distribute RU-486 in the US. There are only two modes of legitimate entry to the market: drug approval through FDA or qualification under an importation exemption for “life-saving” medications. If made available in the US, RU-486 will make abortion more accessible, a trend which runs counter to the Republican’s pro-life platform and the administration’s desire to eliminate use of federal monies for abortion-related activities. A Republican appointee, FDA Commissioner Young must prevent RU-486 from entering the market. He can do so by employing regulatory tactics such as exercising authority, traditional bureaucratic “red tape,” and anti-abortion regulations; codifying these decisions, hence
In the article “Too safe for our own good?” published in “The Washington Times” July 21, 2010, the authors Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko report the overuse of the ‘’precautionary principle’’, which is defined as ‘’a belief that governments should implement regulatory measures to prevent or restrict actions that raise even conjectural threats of harm to human health or the environment’’. As an example, the authors discussed Bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical contained in consumer products. The authors state that The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denied the banning of BPA because it was not found evidence that this chemical can cause negative effects on people’s health. Conversely, environmental activists sustain the idea that BPA causes considerable damage, because of this it should be banned. In addition, Miller and Conko argue that regulatory decisions should be based on risk-benefit.
Darien Sorensen Professor Potratz English 100 9 October 2009 Rhetorical Analysis on “Better Energy” Gwyneth Cravens addresses the issue of the use of nuclear energy in her article “Better Energy”. She starts off by introducing James Lovelock, who is a prominent figure in the green movement, but four years before she wrote her article, he upset his fans by endorsing the use of nuclear energy. She goes on to explain how the use of nuclear energy will be able to decrease the threat of global warming. She claims that nuclear energy is the only way to get the amount of energy that is needed, without critically hurting the environment. Through out her article Cravens highlights the environmental benefits of nuclear energy.
The situation is the same as it was in England before the introduction of the Abortion Act 1967. The Offences against the Person Act 1861 and the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 remain in full force. Extra info on the HFAEAO1 is that of the amendments of embryo’s and gametes is considered wrong and unethical, because if an embryo carried a gene for a certain illness it can still grow to be a human, yet it is destroyed due to its potential deformity which is unfair. What these mean for the law of abortion today? Abortion is illegal to happen after 24 weeks as the death of a baby at this late a stage is unethical as this embryo is so close to being a human.
She writes about how the government told the public nuclear testing was not dangerous and was needed to beat the enemy, and writes about the important law suit “Irene Allen vs the United States of America” which started educating the people and even the government about the harmful effects of nuclear testing near and around the public. Finally on May 10, 1984 the United States awarded plaintiffs for the damages. According to Williams, “it was the first time a federal court had determined that nuclear tests had been the cause of cancers.” However, the next year the Court of Appeals overturned the ruling based on a century-old idea from Monarchial England which meant that the United States was protected from suit by the legal
Secondly, parents should oppose vaccinating their children as a way of protection from developing autism because of the significant step of banning mercury from being included in vaccines, which was taken by the US government related to this matter (Campbell, 2004). Although the government did not openly admit that mercury poisoning could be a possible cause behind the autism epidemic, parents must remain aware to the fact that if this issue was serious enough for such action to be taken, then vaccinations are not as safe for children as health authorities want everyone to believe. Finally, parents should not vaccinate their children if they want to protect them from developing autism because enough evidence exists to support the claim that vaccinations could be to blame for the rise in autism (Kirby,
One of the major points against gun control is the violation of your second amendment rights, you have the right to keep and bear arms for personal protection. This paper will show there is no common sense in banning all firearms as a means gun control and it leaves law abiding citizens increasingly vulnerable to violent crimes. No Common Sense in Gun Control Over the past forty years, legislators have spent a lot of time, effort and revenue on legislation regarding gun control. Gun control advocates insist that increased gun control will lower the soaring crime rates of the early 70's. However, “recent research on the prevalence of defensive gun use has prompted growing concern that government efforts to regulate gun ownership and use may be counterproductive” (Ludwig, 2000, p. 363).
Iran claims the recent uranium stockpile is specifically for the use of their peaceful energy program; however, the United States and other P5 countries share the concern that the stockpile and dramatic production increase needs to be stopped immediately, preventing Iran from creating nuclear weapons. Iran’s nuclear program is assumed to be capable of creating a nuclear weapon within the next year. In a speech addressed to the UN General Assembly Netanyahu physically drew a red line on a diagram of a cartoon bomb under a divided section marked, “final stage” (Nichols 1). Netanyahu and other experts suggest that if uranium enrichment stockpiles remain at these levels or increase, Iran will be capable of nuclear weapons and sooner than expected. Netanyahu’s illustration for his speech approximates Iran is 90 percent along the way to the creation of nuclear weapons.
A Nation Divided: The Affordable Care Act of 2010 “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy.” -Nancy Pelosi at the 2010 legislative conference of the American Association of Counties (Holt, 2010) Making good on a 2007 campaign promise to bring about fundamental change, on March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed perhaps the most controversial health reform law in American history, the brain child of then Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), also deemed “Obamacare.” The law is designed to put all Americans under a single-payer or a universal health care
Bush lifted a 1990 executive order by the first President Bush banning offshore drilling, while at the same time calling for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. As of August 2008, however, a 1982 congressional ban is still in place, making Bush's action a symbolic gesture, and now the congressional ban is being debated in terms of both environmental issues and U.S. energy independence. In an almost complete reversal of policy, on July 30, 2008, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a news report saying that the nation's energy situation has dramatically changed in the past year. Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, said, "Areas that were considered too expensive to develop a year ago are no longer necessarily out of reach based on improvements to technology and safety." Kempthorne went on to say that, "The American people and the President want action, and a new initiative (the development of a new oil and natural gas leasing program for the U.S.