Word: breasted
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Under ordinary circumstances, few people would know much about the contents of an upcoming issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. But when a study says that having an abortion can increase a woman's risk of getting breast cancer, science cannot be guaranteed silence. Months before the report's scheduled publication this week, pro-life groups laid plans to trumpet the seven-year study's findings. In the opposition camp, pro-choice groups marshaled the statistics they needed to defuse the new findings. As the release date neared, editors at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer learned...
...efforts more generally beneficial to Massachusetts voters, Kennedy sponsored the bills that secured freedom of access to abortion clinics, crusaded for battered women's rights and pushed Congress to fund breast cancer early detection programs. Kennedy has been the chief sponsor of most major liberal legislation in this decade, like the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Civil Rights Act of 1991 and the Family and Medical Leave...
...this at a time when women are increasingly afflicted with AIDS, with breast cancer (one in 20 women 20 years ago to one in eight today), with increased incidence of heart disease and with greater risks of environmentally-induced problems. The Clinton administration has launched a variety of programs to improve preventive care for women. While the Congress failed to pass health reform legislation this year, the president and the first lady will continue to fight for enactment...
...meantime, federal funding for breast cancer research and prevention has been increased--to &650 million in fiscal 1994. In addition, the National Action Plan on Breast Cancer provides a blueprint for a partnership between the government and the private sector to work to prevent, diagnose, treat and ultimately eliminate breast cancer...
With the Women's Health Initiative, the administration launched the largest clinical research study ever conducted on either men or women to examine the major causes of death, disability and frailty in post-menopausal women: heart disease, breast and colon cancer and osteoporosis. An emphasis to include minority women at each clinical site is a component of the study...