Vaccines, abortion, and moral coherence.
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The health benefits associated with relatively recent advances in vaccine therapy are well documented. To mention just a few: in 1921 there were nearly 207,000 reported cases of diphtheria in the United States. In 1991, there were two. In the same year, apart from a small number (five to ten) of vaccine-associated cases, there were no reported cases of poliomyelitis, as compared with more than twentyone thousand in 1952; “The CDC projects that the world will be polio-free by
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The national Catholic bioethics quarterly
دوره 2 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002