Word: clinics
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...proposals in Congress, accused Clinton of forcing many taxpayers to help pay for what they believe is murder. Both measures could become flash points in a dispute that is sparking increasing violence. Just three weeks after a doctor who performed abortions was gunned down in Florida, an abortion clinic in Montana was set ablaze...
When Dr. David Gunn was shot last month outside the abortion clinic where he worked, pro-choice forces treated the ideologically motivated killing as spectacular proof of the dangerousness of the pro-life movement...
Otherwise, pro-life demonstrators outside an abortion clinic should not be condemned as violators of a woman's right to privacy, even when they approach her with information on adoption and support for pregnant women. This is no different from what Planned Parenthood workers do when they give out pamphlets on abortion. It is no more intrusive to have a perfect stranger tell you how to have your baby adopted than to be told about how to have it aborted...
Some female students argued that many girls wanted to sleep with these boys. Plainly, Lakewood's teen population is sexually active. According to the local Planned Parenthood office, which serves Lakewood and two other towns, 2,989 teenagers visited its clinic last year. Of those, 547 tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease. Of the 949 girls given pregnancy tests, 385 tested positive...
...women he treated and worked with saw a different figure. Says Linda Taggart, director of the Ladies Center, another Pensacola clinic where Gunn worked: "In recent years, there haven't been enough doctors. But he was never too busy for the women. He was a very sweet, caring man, who was very much devoted to seeing that women kept all their rights." When he finished his clinic work in Pensacola, Gunn would drop in on the Slim Concept Weight Control center and give free counseling on diets and fitness. Says Paula Leonard: "All he wanted was to help women...