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Still, when a woman postpones child bearing, she increases the chance that she will not be fit when the time comes. "Her gamble," says Chicago Ob-Gyn Allan Charles, "is that she won't have diabetes or high blood pressure." Or, for that matter, arthritis, respiratory ailments, obesity or kidney disease. All of these conditions make pregnancy more difficult. Diabetes and hypertension, for example, can interfere with the normal development of the placenta. Though some of these ailments can be controlled by diet and medication, their incidence increases with...
...MONTHS AGO, a woman walked into the hospital with cramps. The doctors thought she had appendicitis and decided to do exploratory surgery. The surgeon, an intern rotating through GYN, thought her appendix looked fine, so I thought we were going to close her up. But then he started to look at her tubes. He said, 'We should take her tubes; they don't look good.' I couldn't see anything wrong with them, so I said that we shouldn't do a tubal ligation until we got a second opinion. But this inter-surgeon kept insisting that her tubes...
Outcry. The public outcry over fetal research began last spring, when Oh. Gyn. News, a semimonthly newsletter for obstetricians and gynecologists, reported that the NIH was nearing a decision that would permit funding of such projects. The story generated a storm of controversy among physicians, scientists, lawyers and theologians, many of whom argued that aborted fetuses are beings so close to living humans that the idea of experimenting on them is morally repugnant. Nowhere did it arouse more anger than at the exclusive Stone Ridge Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md. A group of students there...