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Elaine Kirn
Pamela Hartmann
Medicine, Myths, and Magic
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1
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.
4
can repair many medical problems, even before birth.
5
The use of
drugs often leads to multiple pregnancies.
6
In traditional Eastern medicine, practitioners try to prevent illness and not just
a medical problem after it appears.
7
Many of the advances in modern medicine seem
at first but later raise deeper, more confusing moral questions.
8
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.
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