Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sierra Vista clinic in Lamont, pediatrician Pierrette Poinsett said she would quit before turning away patients. "I see up to three kids a week who test positive for tuberculosis," she said. "This proposition will result in more disease, more teenage pregnancy. It targets the most vulnerable population -- children. It is unconscionable...
Temporary shelter is harder to find. Stephen Knight of the Los Angeles Free Clinic estimates that there are fewer than 200 shelter beds for youths in all of Hollywood. For every kid accommodated, another is turned away. The alternatives are grim: squats, park benches, alleys, an adult theater that allows youths to sleep in seats for a few dollars if they can bear the noise...
...Angeles Free Clinic, former runaways are employed to work the streets, offering help, defusing tensions and trying to rescue the newcomers. "You can tell them by their clean shoes and backpacks and that scared look on their faces," says an outreach worker named Seven. In San Francisco, the Larkin Street Youth Center served 2,000 teenagers last year, 80% of them from out of town. Once the youths are lured in the door by free food, a friendly atmosphere and a no-questions-asked policy, counselors try to find them shelters, drug treatment and job training. More than...
Instead of enduring drug treatments and monitoring, Robyn merely went to the Monash clinic to have immature eggs extracted. The doctors got six eggs and tried to fertilize them all, but only one developed into a viable embryo. It was implanted in Robyn's womb, and on Dec. 14, 1993, Kezia Hallam, Trounson's first bundle of success, was born...
...Florida jury recommended death for antiabortion extremist Paul Hill after convicting him of murdering Dr. John Britton and his escort James Barrett outside a Pensacola clinic in July. Hill, already convicted on federal charges, had told the jury beforehand, "You may mix my blood with the blood of the unborn ... However, truth and righteousness will prevail." A judge will decide later whether to impose the death sentence...