Word: defect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PARENTS USED TO HAVE TO WAIT until babies were born to find out if they had tragic birth defects. Then came two breakthrough fetal tests: amniocentesis, which can identify abnormalities in the 15th week of pregnancy; and chorionic villus sampling, which can be performed as early as the tenth week. Neither procedure is without risk, however, and when either succeeds in pinpointing a genetic defect, it forces would-be parents to make a terrible choice: Do they raise a child who might have a serious congenital affliction? Or do they suffer the torment and pain that accompanies an abortion...
Responding to the backlash he received from his earlier comments regarding the "immorality" of a television show which he had admittedly never watched, Quayle searched for the most "authentic" representations of this particular so-called "defect" in the nations's family values--single mothers. And just as African-Americans in this country have been always coded as the most "primitive" and the most "free" (among many other things), in today's discussions of "family values," African-American are also coded as the most "deviant...
...trade he learned at the Central Intelligence Agency. With his wife at the wheel, Howard propped up a dummy in the passenger seat and, on a tight turn, rolled out onto the roadway. Months later he surfaced in Moscow, the only full-fledged CIA operator to defect during the cold war. The fugitive double agent eventually showed up in Stockholm and last week was arrested by Swedish authorities...
Clozapine is not perfect either. In some patients it causes seizures. A few develop a life-threatening blood defect and must be immediately taken off the medication. It is also extremely expensive, costing $4,160 annually for the drug itself and as much as $9,000 more for doctor-monitored treatment. But for some it brings miracles. Of 20,000 American schizophrenics who did not respond well to Thorazine and were given clozapine, more than half have shown significant improvement: they become less withdrawn, and the nagging inner voices grow hushed. One patient in 10 responds to the drug...
...Court did. Presbyterian delegates in Milwaukee said secular law should still allow open access to the procedure. But in terms of personal morality, they rejected abortion for economic reasons and endorsed it only for a grave threat to a mother's physical or mental health, severe physical or mental defect in a fetus, rape or incest. The new policy also acknowledges that many Presbyterians see each life in the womb as "created for a purpose and belonging...