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Miss California Sparks Furor With Gay Marriage CommentsMiss North Carolina Kristen Dalton was crowned Miss USA on Sunday, but the big story to come out of the normally politics-free telecast was Miss California's comments regarding gay marriage.... Read More »»Selective Sex Abortion Causes 32 million Excess Males in China"Although some imaginative and extreme solutions have been suggested, nothing can be done now to prevent this imminent generation of excess men," says the paper, published online by the British Medical Journal (BMJ)...Read More »» Dr. Oz Tells Oprah's Audience Embryonic Stem Cell Research Debate is DeadOz made it clear that the "stem cell debate is dead" mostly in part because embryonic stem cells have yet to catch up to their adult stem cell and iPS cell counterparts... Read More »»Senate GOP Considers Filibuster of Obama Judicial Nominee Who Compared Pregnancy to SlaveryIn a brief filed when she was a lawyer with the National Abortion Rights Action League, Johnsen cited a footnote that said forcing women to bear children was "disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the 13th Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest."...Read More »»