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Don’t you just love it when someone with whom you're arguing says, “Well, we will just have to agree to disagree”, as a spin of the phrase ‘Reasonable people can agree to disagree’, or as the shortened version, ‘Reasonable people can disagree’? Can reasonable people disagree over cannibalism in order to permit cannibalism, without doing violence to civilization? As a pro-life advocate who gets into lots of discussions, I hear this ‘agree to disagree’ more and more. It tells me my points are getting to the irrational heart of defense for the abortion slaughter. When an advocate for abortion of...

<p>Jane Doe planned her single parenthood carefully, wanting to avoid the potential custody battles of an adoption turned sour.</p> <p>She selected anonymous egg and sperm donors to create an embryo that would be hers alone.</p> <p>But what should have been a joyous and private event turned nightmarish when an embryo mix-up at a respected San Francisco fertility clinic caused her to bear another couple's child.</p>

LONDON (Reuters) - A mix-up at a British clinic that left a white couple with black twins has sparked fears about the reliability of fertility treatment and left the law scrambling to catch up with science. While there are strict injunctions on identifying the twins and their sets of vying "parents," the case has thrown a spotlight on how medicine can mess with nature, leaving courts to pick up the pieces. "Embryos all look the same," Sonya Jerkovic, in charge of the London Fertility Center's laboratory, told Reuters after the latest blunder at an unnamed clinic. "It's our worst...

<p>You'll hear the debate on Crossfire or NewsHour or perhaps The 700 Club. There'll be coverage in your newspaper, probably accompanied by thundering editorials - ripe with clichés like "slippery slope" and "brave new world." It will sound, in fact, a lot like last year's dustup over stem cells and cloning. But this summer's biotech grudge match will be over designer babies.</p>