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...been stressing that all pregnant women should have intensive prenatal care. But last week the U.S. Public Health Service issued a report from a federal panel of experts that urged less prenatal care -- at least for some women. About 1.6 million of the nearly 4 million women who give birth annually have no evident health problems that could jeopardize them or their babies. The panel recommended that physicians cut back -- from 13, to seven or eight -- the number of office visits typically scheduled. The group also suggested curbing some routine procedures, including blood-pressure readings, pelvic examinations and screening...
...same time, the experts called for increased prenatal care for poor women and for drug and alcohol abusers. These women have a much greater chance of giving birth prematurely, and their infants often suffer from low birth weight and other difficulties. The shift in emphasis is "an attempt to use scarce health dollars more efficiently," says Rosen. The report could influence private insurers and government programs to alter reimbursement policies for pre-natal care...
...partial remedy is being tried in New York City. The city's new adoption- counseling unit works with drug-addicted birth mothers at the hospital to explain the possibility of giving up parental rights and freeing their children for quick adoption. Earlier this year the city instituted a plan encouraging would-be adoptive parents to serve as foster parents for children who haven't yet been freed for adoption, and then adopt them as soon as legally possible. "Parents don't have to go to Korea or South America if they ! want to adopt an infant," says adoption-services director...
...baby chase is on. Would-be parents must be relentless and infinitely flexible. Many turn to open adoption, some allow the birth mother a continuing role in their family. Meanwhile, burgeoning numbers of children who are older, not white, or handicapped wait and wait for a family and a home...
...worldwide. In words aimed at the protesters, she told Academy voters, "You have stood firm and refused to be intimidated by a small band of Zionist hoodlums who have insulted Jews all over the world in their struggle against fascism and Nazism." Heard out of context, the phrase gave birth to a mistaken belief that Redgrave regarded all Jews as hoodlums...