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Entries by Jacob M. Appel from 10/2009

Dr. Coburn's Peculiar Privilege

| Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
Read More: Nevada, Law, Marriage, Politics, Senate, Tom Coburn, John Ensign, Oklahoma, Sex, Doctors, John Ensign Affair, Health Care, Bioethics, Medicine, Extra-Marital-Affairs, Physician-Patient Privilege, Politics News

Senator Coburn claims physician-patient privilege to avoid testifying against Ensign. But this is not a "Get out of Jail Free" card for physicians who acquire knowledge outside of their work as doctors.

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Hate the Husband? Sue the Mistress!

| Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Read More: Law, Women, Marriage, Politics, Congress, Alienation of Affection, Divorce, Sex, John Edwards, Mississippi, Love, Chip Pickering, North Carolina, Politics News

An unlikely alliance of trial lawyers and Christian fundamentalists continues to defend the prerogative of jilted spouse to turn love triangles into quadrangles--with the state judicial system as a fourth wheel.

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Abortion: A Healthy Choice

| Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
Read More: Medical Ethics, Abortion, Women, Law, Research, Reproductive Rights, West Virginia, Pregnancy, Science, Texas, Breast Cancer, Feminism, Human Rights, Roe v. Wade, Ethics, Hospitals, Cancer, Informed Consent, Bioethics, Health Care, Medicine, Politics News

If the roughly 50 million abortions that have occurred in the US since Roe v. Wade had all ended in full-term deliveries, approximately 500 additional women would have died during childbirth.

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