Word: clinically
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Although the philosophical center of the abortion debate has always been the woman and what was going on in her womb, its public center was the doctor who performs abortions and what was going on in his clinic. RU 486, its adherents hope, will permit medicine to achieve what politics has made problematic: allowing the issue of abortion to be a private matter between a woman and her doctor. "You can't stop a woman from visiting a doctor," a securities analyst who follows the drug industry told the Wall Street Journal. "It becomes a private transaction. And that...
...miracle drug: the protesters disappear. So do the signs, the fetus. Why? Because the clinic, too, is gone, replaced by the privacy of thousands of anonymous doctors' offices. That, say some, is the elementary physics...
When the pill finds a maker, how will it reach the taker? Its proponents, especially those hoping to make the clinic protesters vanish, agree that France's tightly controlled distribution method was devised, as a New England Journal of Medicine editorial put it, "for political rather than scientific reasons." One common yet radical suggestion is that RU 486 and prostaglandin could be sold to women as prescription drugs and taken at home. "To even suggest that you could do that is ridiculous," protests Judie Brown, president of the American Life League. That sentiment finds some support even from Baulieu...
Baulieu does, however, believe the pill could be administered by gynecologists outside of a clinic environment. He supports the "two-visit" plan: the woman is examined, takes the first set of pills, goes home, takes the second two days later, and returns to the doctor to make sure the process has been completely effective. Advocates of this method make two assumptions about the woman: that she will have the emotional fortitude to go through an experience on her own, and that she will get to a hospital if she becomes one of the rare cases where there is excess bleeding...
...grow up. They want him to tackle more personal themes, to address adult subject matter, to please stop making Steven Spielberg movies. Perhaps Schindler's List, the Nazi-era drama he has already completed shooting for Christmas release, will satisfy those who want Spielberg to enter an auteur rehab clinic...