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...Insurance companies have targeted life-styles, beneficiaries, even Zip Codes," says Mauro Montoya, legal-services coordinator for the Whitman Walker Clinic in Washington. Sensitive to such charges and the mounting number of lawsuits, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners will meet in Orlando next week to consider volun tary guidelines that would, among other things, limit what questions may be asked of policy applicants. "To ask 'Have you ever been treated for AIDS?' would be appropriate," says Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Peter Gillies. "But not 'Are you a hairdresser...
...claimed to have left the station with red marks and abrasions, said The Globe. It also reported that Nassirnia saw a psychiatrist at the Cambridge Hospital who "referred him to a clinic in Somerville, where he lives, for further psychological treatment...
...assertiveness and , self-understanding. The only significant changes in behavior and attitude came in the two programs with strong backing from parents and the local community. And the only increased use of birth control came when the sex-ed program was combined with ready access to a health clinic. The study offered a nugget of hope to conservative parents: graduates of sex-ed programs were less permissive about premarital sex than control groups...
...black leaders in Boston and New York City have denounced the clinics as racist. In Chicago, 13 black clergymen are suing to block distribution of contraceptives at the DuSable High School clinic. Says the Rev. Hiram Crawford: "If these clinics are so good for black kids, why don't they put them in white areas? It's a form of genocide. Why do they so readily recommend abortion...
...Other clinics report lower birth rates among those counseled or treated. And a survey of two inner-city schools, released this year by a team headed by Laurie Schwab Zabin of Johns Hopkins' School of Public Health, reported that sexually inactive high school students who used the clinic postponed their first sexual encounter about seven months, to age 16.2 instead of the 15.7 that otherwise was typical. Zabin's study is one of the most frequently cited by activists who support sex education and school clinics. In the first two- plus years of the study, the pregnancy rate fell...