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Medical providers should have the right to refuse medical care they find morally objectionable. The wording of this question is biased on its face...

Pregnant women should not avoid peanuts. Huh?

Health insurance pricing should not favor those who meet physical standards. This makes most Americans uninsurable.

Veterinarians should not prescribe psychoactive drugs for animals.

There are no persuasive reasons why people should not eat meat. Well...not really.

There are persuasive health reasons not to eat food products from animal clones. We just don't know for certain if animal clones would not produce some kind of initially unseen side-effect.

A legal guardian should be able to make life and death medical decisions for an individual in a persistant vegetative state if there is no living will. This is actually a very hard question to answer.

Life is fundamentally precious because it is finite and fragile.

A person should not have a basic right to death. This question has nothing to do with the right to death, but the "right to have myself killed," be real in questions!

Life is fundamentally precious. If life is not precious, what would make it have any value, anyone couls say that it was worthless-and behave that way.

Eating soy negatively affects a woman's risk of breast cancer. My doctor tells me that "raw" unprocessed soy is bad for a man's health-it can't be all that great for a woman's either.

The FDA should not regulate tobacco products. It is none of the federal government's business who uses tobacco products or what they choose to use. People know the health risks involved in our day and age. If they choose to use tobacco, it is entirely their prerogative.

The U.S. should permit the import of prescription drugs from Canada. It really isn't hurting anything to have these drugs imported. Many are already made by U.S. companies, and there is nothing saying that they can't be safety-tested.

Bottled water is not safer than tap water. Most of the time, bottled water is really nothing more than tap water, unless the bottle specifically says SPRING WATER

Frequent marijuana use adversely affects sperm.

Women should abstain from drinking alcohol during pregnancy.

Positive thinking can improve your health. Absolutely.

The government should subsidize prescription drugs for seniors who cannot afford them. There should be some kind of program, though I don't necessarily agree with a full subsidy from a budgetary point of view.

Pets do improve their owners' health. I think so. I love my dogs and I think the unconditional love animals bring to people can be good for physical as well as emotional and spiritual health.

The government should not subsidize prescription drugs for people who cannot afford them. What the government should do is a serious and real investigation into why the price of many drugs is so high. Are advertising costs partly to blame?

HIV tests should not be mandatory. It is obviously advisable for people to be tested for HIV-for it to be mandated is an unconstitutional infringement on someone's right to security in their person.

Life begins at conception.

A universal healthcare system would require a tax increase. This is almost certain-I'd like for someone to explain to me, in detail, how universal healthcare could be funded WITHOUT a tax increase!

The identity of sperm donors should not remain anonymous. Kids have the right to know who their biological father might be if they should choose to know that information.

Restless Leg Syndrome is not a legitimate medical condition. I am convinced that a pharmaceutical company made it up-really.

There is not a link between alcohol consumption and the development of cancer. We can't be completely sure.

Physician-assisted suicide should not be legal. The whole notion really is conrary to what the medical profession is all about.

The U.S. should not implement a single-payer health care system.

Chain restaurants should not be required to display calorie counts on their menus. When you eat at a chain and don't order a salad, you voluntarily choose fattening food.

Employers should not be required to offer health insurance to full-time employees. This should be a part of the consideration of a job hunt. If you want good employees, you should offer insurance. It should be the employer's option-they'll lose good people.

The government should require labeling of genetically modified food. It may be safe, butr we need to know about it.

The FDA's drug approval process is not effective. Many good drugs are kept off the market.

There is a link between childhood vaccinations and autism. This can't be proven, but there is strong circumstantial evidence.

Vaccines containing thimerosal are not safe. Parents are right to be concerned.

The U.S. should do more to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. I do not agree with handing out condoms-that solves little-but we should act.

Alzheimer's disease is preventable. Although we don't know yet in the scientific sense, I suspect we will one day find ways of preventing Alzheimer's.

Governments should not ban trans fats in commercially-prepared foods. People ought to know that purchasing products with trans-fats are bad for their health-but the choice should ultimately be left up to the consumer.

Congress should strengthen regulations on direct-to-consumer advertising. Where prescription pharmaceuticals are concerned, I have no problem with limiting television ads, for example-it will not hurt profit and can hardly be viewed as a limitation on free speech so long as drug companies are free to advertise by other means.

Antibacterial soaps are not more effective than regular soaps. Antibacterial soaps are only more effective when used on an occasional basis.

The use of antibiotics in food animals does not pose a risk to human health. This is a really conditional answer-it depends on WHAT antibiotics we are talking about here.