I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage.

The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.

Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.

Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.

Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.