If Congress fails again to act this time around, human cloning will happen here, and we will have acquiesced in its arrival. It is my profound hope that Congress will rise to the occasion, and strike a blow in defense of human dignity.

When or if dedicated anti-BPA campaigners yield to the emerging science remains to be seen. Let's hope the OEHHA has the wisdom and courage to base its decision on science rather than on a narrow interpretation of Proposition 65.

This ban is a political vote. It has nothing to do with science or health. It does not mean that BPA has been shown to be harmful.

It isn’t easy to attract 2,000 people to a conference on women’s rights. But Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, carried it off. On March 8, she filled an auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York City with mostly high-powered professional women and kept them enthralled for three days.

Conservative women may wish to describe themselves as feminists, and they may offer a new model of women's empowerment that large numbers of American women find inspiring.

Even as critics complain that the Bush administration has limited stem cell research, state and private funding of such research goes forward.

Obama must put pressure on the United Nations Population Fund to concentrate on the health of women and babies and to stop wasting money on wrongheaded population-control schemes.

People are misrepresenting Reagan's necessary compromises while in office, to incorrectly associate him with having a liberal agenda.