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...assist lawyers in such actions, L.D.I. offers an impressive range of free and low-cost services. It provides lawyers with professional quality ads and brochures to attract clients. It claims to have 500 expert witnesses on call to testify about everything from retained fetal parts-one type of abortion malpractice-to "postabortion trauma,'' a form of emotional harm that L.D.I. lawsuits hope to establish in case law. Life Dynamics also offers the services of 8,000 "Spies for Life"-moles who use a variety of methods to collect information about abortion clinics. L.D.I. has a computer data base on abortion...
Residents are given the option of training in dilation and evacuation, a procedure used to treat women who have experienced fetal death, miscarriage or who are having abortions...
...currently documenting the effect of high levels of lead on organ systems such as the fetal nervous system. In addition, he is trying to prove a correlation between lead and problems such as dementia in the elderly, hypertension and kidney failure...
...category of "extraordinary-needs children" was invented and quickly overpopulated by children drug addicted at birth, sexually abused at an early age or impaired by fetal alcohol syndrome. Many were doomed to fail in foster care. Annette Baran, 67, a psychotherapist and adoption expert, recalls, "In 1945, when the Holocaust children began arriving from Europe, everyone was dying to rescue them. But these kids could not be in nuclear families. They were so traumatized they couldn't trust. They couldn't be vulnerable. This is true of today's kids...
...federal money to fund research on human embryos. The move came hours after a scientific advisory panel endorsed proposed guidelines that would have allowed scientists to create human embryos for study as long as they were destroyed within two weeks. The ban does not affect research on fetal tissue that has been discarded during an abortion...