Politics
Capron, in his insightful article on surrogate mother contracts, concludes that until medical science develops better means of overcoming infertility or until social attitudes change regarding adoption, abortion, and childlessness, there is no need for legislation making surrogate mother arrangements easier.
April 19, 1987
World & Nation
* Re “Faiths Unite to Oppose Patents on Life Forms,” May 18: At the end of your article, readers were invited to answer the question “creation or invention?”
May 29, 1995
California
California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown predicts that an initiative to legalize euthanasia will qualify for the ballot in November and be passed by voters, even though he believes the prospect of such a referendum is the mark of a political process gone “crazy.”
April 11, 1988
Science & Medicine
In an escalation of the decades-old debate over the ethics of human genetic research, nearly 200 religious leaders from a broad spectrum of faiths will call today for a halt to the patenting of human and animal life forms for profit.
May 18, 1995
Science: Researchers find unpredictable genetic flaws that can cause premature death or abnormalities.
July 6, 2001
The Christmas season of 1984 found Los Angeles attorney Robert Risley and his cancer-stricken wife, Darlena, 41, in rented quarters in the Bahamas where they went seeking a miracle but ended up facing death, instead.
April 10, 1987
In search of clarity: Gary Bolen, a drama instructor at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, recently received a piece of mail that was addressed to “Santa Clarity Community College.”
Dec. 3, 1996
Physicians using sophisticated reproductive technologies have enabled some menopausal women over age 40 to bear children, according to a report in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
Oct. 25, 1990
When researchers announced the first successful cloning of an adult mammal, they took a major and, by some reckonings, a troubling step in the science of sex by breaking one of nature’s basic biological taboos, scientists and medical ethicists said Sunday.
Feb. 24, 1997
Entertainment & Arts
Movie review: ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules’
March 25, 2011