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...state abortion seekers are not limited to New York City. Detroit Manufacturer Martin Mitchell, for instance, has established a clinic near Niagara Falls, N.Y., and has arranged a thrice-weekly charter flight to bring women there from cities in the Middle West. Others arrive by car. His venture has been booming, to the extent of 175 cases a week. Mitchell, who advertises his clinic on billboards, has even hired a plane to tow a huge airborne sign over Miami Beach. Once he planned airborne abortions, to be performed in a circling jetliner, but he could not find doctors willing...
...with my children." Her eldest daughter, Jane, 25, an attractive college graduate married to a systems engineer, has had two abortions. Jane had an illegal out-of-state operation 16 months ago because she wanted to finish her studies, and had a legal abortion at a New York clinic last spring because she wanted to continue working. Her outlook toward abortion is more positive than her mother's ("There was no question in my mind how important it is to plan children"), but even her attitude is not unclouded. After her second abortion, Jane felt weakened and developed...
...fetal abnormalities cannot be made before the 16th or 18th week of pregnancy, and some take as long as 30 days to perform and evaluate. There is also sentiment for limiting abortions to regular hospitals. Dr. Hall, a leader in New York's abortion-reform movement, feels that clinics are unsuited to handle the hemorrhaging that can result from even the most carefully performed abortion. Others, including spokesmen for Planned Parenthood, argue that clinic abortions are as safe as those performed in hospitals, and that eliminating clinics would deny many the opportunity to obtain abortions...
Pregnancy tests are available free at UHS. If a woman comes to the clinic before 9 a.m., the test results will be available after 2 p.m. the same...
...addition to the changes affecting gynecological services. Wacker is studying the feasibility of opening the UHS clinic services to dependents of faculty and employees. (At present, dependents over age 14 can be treated by a UHS physician in Stillman Infirmary. But this in-patient service is not used frequently...