Word: clinical
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Planned Parenthood has filed a civil suit against those involved with "The Nuremberg Files" in Portland, Ore., alleging that the site encourages violence against abortion providers and thereby infringes upon the 1994 Federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The case is the first of its kind both because it tests the boundaries of the 1994 Act with the question of whether words on a Web site can have the same deterring factor as physically blocking clinic entrances and because it questions the First Amendment rights of the Internet, asking whether the site is a purely political vehicle...
...federal and state governments have a responsibility to do more than just uphold the ideas of Roe and defend against antiabortion legislation--they must take tangible steps to strengthen the 1994 Act and protect both clinics and providers as much as possible. While free speech, however hateful, cannot be silenced, a strong show of physical protection on the part of the government can go a long way to protecting abortion rights. For example, here in Massachusetts, a bill to create a 25-foot buffer zone at clinic entrances and driveways, which has already passed the Senate, should immediately be passed...
CALISTA FLOCKHART It's just nerves! New Mayo Clinic study shows fidgeting prevents weight gain...
...anymore. Parents who have access to the latest genetic testing techniques can now predetermine their baby's sex with great accuracy--as Monique and Scott Collins learned to their delight two years ago, when their long-wished-for daughter Jessica was born after genetic prescreening at a fertility clinic in Fairfax...
...while the technique is ideal for weeding out this and other X-linked disorders, including hemophilia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Fragile X syndrome, most patients treated at Genetics & IVF want to even out their families--a life-style rather than a medical decision. The Fairfax clinic has been willing to help, but such a trend doesn't sit well with some other practitioners. "Our view at the moment," says Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Cornell Medical Center in New York City, "is that these techniques should be used for medical indications...