Ms. Paltrow's group has documented hundreds of cases nationally over the last decade in which women were detained, arrested or forced to accept medical procedures in the name of fetal protection, with low-income and minority women affected disproportionately.
Therefore, we can observe in biogenetic regulations a shift away from the metaphysical – whose expression is written into human dignity – and towards pragmatism, which allows specific procedures in the name of the interest of society or science, or even of specific people.
With this distance from patients, doctors then have license to perform invasive and harsh procedures in the name of solving the health problem, rather than considering the most humane path in the particular patient's interest.
The blithe informality of the Blair years, when long-established procedures were dropped in the name of "sofa government," is being reversed.
This procedure is conservative, but justifiable in the name of controlling for false positives.
In an odd coincidence, at the same time as the Congress on Aesthetic Vaginal Surgery was taking place, new legislation was being enacted in Arizona that cut off state funding for organ and bone marrow transplants – life-saving but costly procedures that were being denied in the name of necessary healthcare rationing.
In the name of following procedure, hospital personnel enforce these pseudoscientific practices that interrupt the natural, and usually flawless, progression of pregnancy, labor, delivery, breast-feeding and bonding.
(O.C.R. found Harvard Law School, where I teach, in violation of certain terms of the Dear Colleague letter. I have been critical of the federal pressure on schools to adopt policies and procedures that deny fairness to accused students in the name of Title IX compliance).
Most such devices available to maverick backbenchers have since been hacked away in the name of modernisation of procedure.
We have already seen how inadequate procedures in existing law allow sweeping and erroneous enforcement actions in the name of protecting intellectual property.
