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THE SLIDE TO AUSCHWITZ By: C. Everett Koop, M.D. In July the City Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to petition Harvard University to temporarily halt the construction of a half million dollar laboratory for specialized genetics research. This intervention of the town in the affairs of the University was not just the hysterical reaction of ignorant people to the misunderstood pursuits of a scientific faculty. Rather, it had been initiated and pushed by distinguished scholars on the Harvard faculty. These individuals were deeply concerned with the newly acquired power in biology to alter the genes of living organisms and create...

Two cases of European doctors refusing to treat their patients are cause for concern: Futile Care Theory may be coming to America. A LITTLE NOTICED LITIGATION in the United Kingdom could be a harbinger of medical woes to come here in the United States. Leslie Burke, age 44, is suing for the right to stay alive. Yes, you read right: Burke, who has a terminal neurological disease, is deathly afraid that doctors will refuse to provide him wanted food and water when his condition deteriorates to the point that has to receive nourishment through a feeding tube. Burke' fears are,...