Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine

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conflict and paralyzed by competing interest groups and ideologies? As years of careful thinking and writing on health care reform turns into a season of political debate and decision, the strengths or inadequacies of the two branches of government may become painfully obvious.

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2.	E.g., Hastings Center. Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying. Briar Cliff Manor, N.Y., 1987.
3.	New York State Society of Surgeons v. Axelrod, 77 N.Y.2d 677 (1991).
4.	International Union, UAWv. Johnson Controls, Inc., 499 U.S. 187 (1991).
5.	A considerably more detailed ''human rights impact assessment" is contained in Gostin L., Lazzarini, Z., Public Health and Human Rights in the AIDS Pandemic. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, in press.
6.	Haitian Centers Council, Inc., v. Sale, 823 F. Supp. 1028 (E.D.N.Y. 1993).
7.	In 1993, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted the first PHS workshop for state judges on tuberculosis and AIDS. See Gostin, L., Lazzarini, Z., Tuberculosis, the Law, and Public Health. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, in press.
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10.	Butler, J.D., Walbert D.F., eds. 1992. Abortion, Medicine, and the Law, 4th ed. New York: Facts on File.
11.	Griswold v. Connecticut, 85 S.Ct. 1678 (1965). See also Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1(1967); Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972).
12.	Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).
13.	Griswold v. Connecticut, 85 S.Ct. 1678 (1965).
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15.	Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).
16.	See, e.g., City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. 416 (1983); Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, 476 U.S. 747 (1986).
17.	Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989).
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23.	Benshoof, op. cit.
24.	In re Baby M., 217 N.J. Super. 313 (1987), rev'd in part, 525 A.2d 1128 (1988).
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