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...pregnancy-center clinic, with its new ultrasound machine, has been open only since December, but already the staff can count the women who came in considering an abortion and changed their minds: five women converted, six lives saved, they declare, since one was carrying twins. "They connected," nurse Joyce Wilson says, recalling the reaction of the women who saw the filmy image of their fetus onscreen. "They bonded. You could just see it. One girl got off the table and said, 'That's my baby...
...such momentum behind the CPC movement that abortion-rights groups have begun to fight back. Last summer the U.S. National Abortion Federation published a study on the centers subtitled An Affront to Choice, which charged them with marketing themselves so that women looking for a full-service health clinic might mistakenly go to a CPC instead and be "harassed, bullied and given blatantly false information." It accused centers of focusing on women's needs through the first two trimesters but then abandoning them once obtaining an abortion becomes much more difficult. Los Angeles Democrat Henry Waxman, now chairman...
...backyard, but there is also a lively population of retirees and artists and entrepreneurs opening craft shops and microbreweries. It thinks of itself as a tolerant town--to the point that the only facility in all of western North Carolina that publicly offers abortions is the city's Femcare clinic. It has a fence around it, cameras, alarms and a security guard because it was bombed in 1999 and had its windows shot out in 2003. "It really tested me," says Lorrie, the clinic's sole abortion provider, who, given past threats, prefers that her full name not be used...
...study’s senior author, Levi A. Garraway, an instructor in medicine at Dana-Farber. A second challenge, according to Garraway, is the “bottleneck” that occurs when trying to put our expanding knowledge of how genetic mutations cause cancer into practice in the clinic. “Hundreds of these mutations are now known, but the challenge is how we extract relevant information from patients who walk into the clinic without having to sequence all of their genes,” said Garraway. The study presents a streamlined way of detecting mutations...
...ultimately lose the mystery, but you gain a good thing in explaining the past.” To better understand the character of Hannibal Lecter, Ulliel watched dozens of films, read true stories about serial killers, and even spent several weeks at an autopsy clinic in Prague. A huge star in his native France, though relatively unknown to American audiences, Ulliel perfected his English though many hours with a dialogue coach. The transition challenged the actor, particularly because of the importance of precise intonations and accents. Under director Peter Webber, whose sole previous film “Girl with...