Word: clinicism
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...Leng's population are soldiers at arms, claims the S.S.A., while the rest are dependents or other refugees. Ignore the parade ground of packed mud, over which a Shan flag defiantly flies, and Loi Tai Leng could be just another hardscrabble hilltop community: there is a small clinic, a Buddhist monastery, and stalls selling basic goods. But this community is at war. Most men don military uniforms, and even when there is no fighting, there are mist-muffled retorts from a nearby firing range. Children walk to school along roadsides peppered with interconnecting foxholes...
...Such clinics now exist at four other St. Paul high schools (Mechanic Arts High has been closed). The results have been dramatic. Between 1977 and 1984, births to female students fell from 59 per thousand to 26 per thousand. Even girls who did become pregnant seemed to benefit from the counseling. At Mechanic Arts High, their dropout rate fell from 45% to 10%, and only 1% had another unwanted pregnancy within two years of the first. The controversial clinic at Chicago's DuSable High School and ones at other schools around the country were modeled after St. Paul's pioneering...
...Chicago's DuSable High School, controversy erupted when school officials decided to establish an on-campus health clinic, authorized to dispense contraceptives to students who have parental permission. The school, which serves one of the nation's poorest neighborhoods, is battling a veritable epidemic: each year about one-third of its 1,000 female students are pregnant. The clinic has elicited picketing and protest, mostly by religious and antiabortion groups, but the school has refused to back down. Says Principal Judith Steinhagen: "All I can say is, we're trying to keep some young ladies in school and off welfare...
...school board in Los Angeles announced that it too plans to open a health clinic offering contraceptives to high school students. So far, nine schools around the U.S. have taken this step, and others are expected to follow suit. Says School Board Member Jackie Goldberg: "There's an appalling number of teen pregnancies. I hope to upgrade the quality of teen medical care, and I hope that young men and women will consider the ramifications of being sexually active...
Even without the risk of being squealed on, many young girls are embarrassed about going to a public clinic. "I chickened out," confesses Debra Stinnett, 18. "I just never went back to Planned Parenthood for the pills." She now has a one-year-old daughter. Studies show that, on the average, teens wait twelve months after first becoming sexually active before they seek contraception. By then it is often too late. "When you're young," says Kim Adalid, 19, of Lawndale, Calif, a wise old mother of two, "all you think about is the weekend...