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Elaine Kirn
Pamela Hartmann

Medicine, Myths, and Magic

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The invention of the birth control pill was a big medical of the 1960s.
2

John was with cancer last April.
3

For many, abortion raises a lot of questions about the value of life and the role of the fetus.
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can repair many medical problems, even before birth.
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The use of drugs often leads to multiple pregnancies.
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In traditional Eastern medicine, practitioners try to prevent illness and not just a medical problem after it appears.
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Many of the advances in modern medicine seem at first but later raise deeper, more confusing moral questions.
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Although genetics can tell us a lot of important information about an unborn baby, the practice of finding out the genetic makeup of a child before it is born raises the of people "choosing" the best child and aborting those that they don't want.