Word: abortment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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District Attorney Garrett Byrne, a 22-year incumbent facing a tough primary fight, was happy to provide it. His office conducted an eight-month study of abortions at the hospital and then charged the researchers and Dr. Leonard Berman, a pathologist who supplied them with fetal tissue, with the unauthorized use of a body. The investigators also came upon the records of Edelin, one of only two doctors at B.C.H. willing to perform abortions. In October 1973, Edelin used a saline injection to abort a woman believed to be 20 weeks pregnant. When the procedure failed to end the pregnancy...
...achievement to crow about, it would mark a considerable improvement over the first quarter. Still, the persistence of galloping inflation presents Simon and other federal planners with a cruel dilemma: they must somehow find ways to contain the price rises without restraining the economy so much as to abort a recovery from the weak first quarter...
...treatment that had been given to 200 patients admitted to hospitals for surgery to correct uncontrollable angina. Nearly half had been treated with nothing other than nitroglycerin, a drug used to dilate or expand the arteries. In most of these cases, the drug had been used only to help abort an attack of angina-not to modify the conditions that led to the pain. On the other hand there had been insufficient effort to deal with either the physical conditions that cause angina pectoris or the life-style that eventually leads to it. "Taking medication, losing weight, giving up smoking...
...demand that the President do to himself what Congress will not be able to do: abort his political career. Your reasoning is contrived and specious...
...thought we had gotten them [Blue Cross/Blue Shield] to agree to cover pregnancies. If it remains the way it is now, it is definitely a financial inducement for a woman to abort," Munter said...