Empirical Studies About Miscarriage

The 50th anniversary of AO spray in Vietnam & the 2011 Victims of Agent Orange ...

According to the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign, Wednesday August 10, 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the United States Military’s first spraying of toxic chemicals in Vietnam. Rainbow herbicides, most notably Agent Orange, were used in combat by Marines, Navy, Army, and Air Force personnel against oppositional forces for a 10-year period, during the Vietnam War.# The chemicals, which often contained fairly lethal dosages of dioxins, were sprayed on more than 20,000 villages in concentrations up to 50 times the normal range of agricultural use. Most remembered as part of Operation Ranch Hand, Agent Orange and its counterparts were utilized in the embattled regions to defoliate vital natural resources (i.e.rice, cereal grain), remove canopy coverage from guerrilla combatants, and impose psychological devastation to the targeted enemy. Recent research suggests that the area of contamination is actually greater than the earlier estimate of 3.6 million acres; the toxins were distributed over 4.2 million acres. In the last half-century, continuous scientific investigation has outlined the mass detrimental outcomes of chemical exposure extending from the Vietnam War. Considering the US Department of Veterans Affairs reports that over 19 billion gallons were used during the Vietnam War, it comes as no surprise that over 2 million service-people were exposed to harmful amounts of herbicides.# Over the years, veterans have exhibited a wide array of symptoms related to Agent Orange exposure that have long-lasting and often fatal influences on physical and mental health.# However, the US government currently only recognizes those which have had the greatest empirical correlation with Agent Orange exposure.

have “woman-protective” studies resolved the abortion debate? don ...

The enormous growth in empirical studies on topics relating to law and policy makes it all but inevitable that legislators and Supreme Court justices will be encouraged to consider those findings in crafting legislation and rendering decisions. Indeed, it is increasingly common to see extensive references to empirical studies in legislative enactments as well as in Supreme Court opinions. But navigating the seas of empirical studies to find the ones that correctly advance our understanding of the world is a tricky enterprise. The Supreme Court in particular has wrestled with this difficulty in recent years, sometimes quite publicly, on contentious issues ranging from the death penalty to abortion. In last year’s majority opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart , which upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortions, Justice Anthony Kennedy reiterated a hard fact that confronts hundreds of thousands of women each year who face an unwanted pregnancy. “Whether to have an abortion,” he wrote, “requires a difficult and painful moral decision.” Justice Kennedy then went on to assert: “While we find no reliable data to measure the phenomenon, it seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained.” At this point Justice Kennedy paused to reference a brief submitted in the case by Sandra Cano, the former “Doe” of the 1973 case Doe v. Bolton , before continuing, “Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow.” In so doing, Justice Kennedy’s opinion has energized the so-called “woman-protective” branch of the anti-abortion movement. Anti-abortion activists reveled in the strategic opportunities presented by Justice Kennedy’s Carhart opinion.

Miscarriage, Why It Happens and How Best to Reduce Your Risks

A comprehensive guide to understanding the physical, medical, and emotional issues surrounding miscarriage helps women navigate this painful, disappointing ...

Miscarriage, Medicine & Miracles, Everything You Need to Know about Miscarriage

Examines the common reasons for miscarriage, including abnormal anatomy, illnesses and diseases, and toxic agents, and discusses how each of these factors can ...

Democratizing biblical studies, toward an emancipatory educational space

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