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Before last year’s parliamentary election in Poland, the far-right organization Ordo Iuris had proposed a blanket ban on abortion, one that would go beyond Poland’s current legislation, already among the most restrictive in Europe, by forcing women to give birth even in cases of rape, incest, health risks, and serious fetal
defects.
Traditional allies, not accustomed to dealing with US leaders with severe mental defects, are clearly shaken, while adversaries appear to be taking advantage.
These
defects
can lead to a wide spectrum of problems, because accurate glycosylation, as the process is called, is essential for the functioning of many signaling molecules, such as hormones and neurotransmitters, as well as the receptors to which these molecules bind.
Two Cheers for the Rhineland ModelNot so long ago, Germans and other Continental Europeans pointed to America's "working poor," as well as to the sorry state of public services in Britain, as
defects
that supposedly reflected the inevitable price Anglo-Saxon countries must pay for their ruthless form of capitalism.
The cost of maintaining internal order will continue to rise as the system’s fundamental
defects
force the new leader to confront stark new challenges.
Others must cope with results showing that they carry
defects
that significantly increase their risk of developing a hereditary form of cancer or dementia, or of transmitting a defect to their children that could, in turn, cause a serious defect in their grandchildren.
The proteins with the largest accumulation of structural
defects
are the prions, soluble proteins so poorly wrapped that they relinquish their functionally competent fold and form aberrant aggregates that may cause degenerative neuropathies.
Do the
defects
of democracy really mean, as Tocqueville claimed, that resigned pessimism is the only – realistic but unsustainable – path open to us?
In 1961, thalidomide, a hypnotic drug also used to treat nausea in pregnant women, was found to have caused severe birth
defects
in more than 10,000 children in 46 countries since its introduction four years earlier.
Like sniffer dogs, they search the economy for such
defects
and ponder how they can be corrected through intelligent state intervention.
Meanwhile, the European Union remained (and remains) the only democratic experiment on a supranational level, taking pride in its promising advances, despite being burdened by multiple
defects.
Fumonisin also interferes with the cellular uptake of folic acid, a vitamin that reduces the risk of neural tube
defects
in developing fetuses, and thus can cause folic acid deficiency – and
defects
such as spina bifida – even when one’s diet contains what otherwise would be sufficient amounts of the vitamin.
Everyone involved in food production and consumption has suffered: consumers (especially in developing countries) have been subjected to avoidable health risks, and food producers have placed themselves in legal jeopardy for selling products known to have “design defects.”
These
defects
are increasingly making their influence felt, aggravating the financial crisis.
The
defects
of this compromise are apparent.
Coming from anyone else, Blair’s proposal to re-think the CAP might seem reasonable; indeed, over the years, the EU has tried (slowly) to reform its
defects.
Furthermore, lower levels of mycotoxins in pest-resistant corn mean fewer birth defects, such as spina bifida, and less toxicity to livestock.
(Under the current law, abortion is allowed in the event of rape, severe fetal defects, or a threat to the health of the mother.)
None of the
defects
or shortcomings of market economies are as bad as the remedies ranged against them.
The least that can be said is that Tsipras’s approach does not make up for these
defects.
Despite its defects, the EU has become a laboratory of democratic innovation, in which, for the first time in centuries, an attempt is being made to settle differences not by political war and blackmail but by listening, dialogue, and a synthesis of different points of view.
Similarly, when thalidomide was found to cause major birth defects, we did not just educate women to avoid using the drug when pregnant.
That is the story of thalidomide, which was used in the 1950s and 1960s by pregnant women to allay morning sickness, but was banned after it was found to cause severe birth
defects.
For example, chip foundries use machine vision to check integrated circuits for microscopic defects, a process that requires extraordinarily high resolution.
Likewise, it has facilitated important innovations, such as pharmacogenetic cancer treatment, in which drugs target specific genetic
defects
within cancer cells.
Research by the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (http://www.rerf.or.jp/) found that the fetuses of hibakusha women who were pregnant at the time of the explosions were born with horrible
defects.
But it is high time to recognize the
defects
of the system and reconsider the mission of the fund.
Worse yet, low tax revenues in poor countries often result from
defects
in tax collection systems (rather than low tax rates) that also promote unproductive enterprise.
Scientists believe that human clones would have
defects.
Other
defects
may be subtler and, perhaps, insignificant for farm animals.
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