A Case of Need

by Michael Crichton

All surgeons have persecution complexes anyway. Ask the psychiatrists.

surgeons

“Morality must keep up with technology, because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they’ll choose life every time.

moraliy

We are all tied to the past, individually and collectively. The past shows through in the very structure of our bones, the distribution of our hair, and the coloring of our skin, as well as the way we walk, stand, eat, dress—and think.

past

Many things in life are difficult to live down, but nothing is more difficult than a name.

name

I feel that a man’s reasons for doing something are less important than the ultimate value of what he does. It is a historical truth that a man may do the wrong thing for the right reasons. In that case he loses. Or he may do the right thing for the wrong reasons. In that case, he is a hero.

hero

The second argument concerns abortion as a form of birth

Birth control