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	Good health, a responsibility not just a right

tabsey

9-29-2009 5:51 AM

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tabsey says:

I can understand the debate that this situ has caused. I'll agree with both sides, simply because I can't "pull the pin" on people because the education, indeed life, processes have failed them.

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