This post originally appeared on Harvard Law Bill of Health on February 5, 2020 here. The acclaimed One Child Nation, streaming on Amazon Prime, provides a haunting look at the reasoning, implementation, and consequences behind China’s (now revised) One Child Policy. Director Nanfu Wang expertly weaves together interviews from...
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Congressional Appropriations and Human Germline Modification
posted by: Katherine Drabiak, J.D.
September 25, 2019
In summer 2019, the Congressional Appropriations Committee voted to reinstate a rider to the Consolidated Appropriations Act that prohibits the FDA from reviewing clinical applications in which a human embryo would be intentionally created or modified to include a heritable genetic modification. Prior to this vote,...
California Law to Restrict Medical Vaccine Exemptions Raises Thorny Questions Over Control
posted by: Katherine Drabiak, J.D.
This post originally appeared in The Conversation on September 24, 2019 published here. California passed a law on Sept. 9, 2019 designed to curb the number of medical exemptions issued for childhood vaccinations. Called SB 276, it restricts these exemptions from mandatory vaccines for children attending...
Toxic Breastmilk: When Substance Abuse Relapse Means Death for Baby
posted by: Katherine Drabiak, J.D.
January 23, 2019
This post originally appeared on the Harvard Law Bill of Health on November 15, 2018.http://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2018/11/15/toxic-breastmilk-when-substance-abuse-relapse-means-death-for-baby/ Recently, a nursing mother in Pennsylvania made national headlines when her infant died from ingesting a combination of fatal drugs through breastmilk. According to the coroner’s report, the infant died from a combination...