Word: clinics
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...unlike appendicitis, pregnancy is governed by a host of special laws, from Roe v. Wade to the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, Kleveland observes. "The point is that Heath Mayfield and his family and government officials had no right or standing to interfere with the young woman's decision to have an abortion...
...people in the town of Blair, Nebraska, who thought they knew what was best for "Mary Smith,'' 15 years old and pregnant. But it's unlikely that most of them, including the police, were acting lawfully. In May 1994, Congress passed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which makes it a federal crime to use force or threaten to use force against a woman seeking an abortion. The law was intended to end the vigilante violence that had exploded at abortion clinics around the country. The lawmakers probably didn't even envision the possibility of vigilante action against...
Although listening to the DNA testimony in the Simpson trial has been about as gripping as counting bricks, someone has seen a TV show in it. CBS has ordered a script for a drama series based on defense DNA experts Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld's legal practice and clinic. The lawyers are reportedly writing the script now--gee, does O.J. know?--so the show can be ready next year, in time to combat Simpson-trial withdrawal symptoms. GO, SAYS...
RECOVERING. LOU HOLTZ, 58, Notre Dame football coach; from 4 1/2 hours of surgery to relieve debilitating spinal-cord pressure; at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Though he is improving, Holtz will be on the bench for at least two more weeks...
Desperate for relief, and facing the possibility of radical surgery, Trebilcock went to the Mayo Clinic, where Dr. William Sandborn offered an unusual treatment. He gave the 23-year-old college student a nicotine patch as part of a study to determine its effect on colitis. Normally prescribed to help smokers kick the habit, these patches release a predetermined amount of nicotine through the skin into the bloodstream, where it eases the craving for cigarettes. Physicians have known for some time, however, that nicotine also seems to quiet the symptoms of colitis. So, although the Food and Drug Administration...