If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.

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

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research - or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.

Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.