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...action is a victory for feminist health leaders, who initiated the decade-long campaign to approve the cap. Cervical covers date back more than 2,500 years, and have been made from materials as varied as opium, gold and ivory. Dr. Friedrich Wilde, a German gynecologist, developed the modern rubber version in 1838, and it quickly gained widespread popularity in Europe. In the U.S., however, it never caught on, mainly because Margaret Sanger, a pioneer in family planning in the 1900s, favored the diaphragm...
...health drawbacks to the cervical cap. However, they are quick to note that the newly approved contraceptive will not be for everyone; some women, for example, may find the device difficult to insert and remove and may prefer to use a diaphragm or other form of birth control. Says Gynecologist Gerald Bernstein of the University of Southern California, who led the studies of the cap: "Women must use what they are comfortable with. The important thing here is that they have another choice...
Perhaps his most famous photograph shows three young paratroopers standing in front of Jerusalem's Western Wall shortly after the Old City was captured by Israeli troops in 1967. Rubinger has kept up with the trio; one is a gynecologist, another manages a folk-dance troupe and the third is a farmer. One of his most affecting shots depicts a boatload of exhilarated Moroccan Jews catching sight of Israel for the first time. "Photographs, like wine, improve with age," says Rubinger. "My favorites are the ones taken years ago that show human beings, having survived horrors, being remade into...
...gynecologist at a Columbia-affiliated hospital shot himself in the scrotum and then told police and campus security he had been shot by an unknown assailant, The Columbia Spectatorreported...
Ginsburg's personal life may offer a clue to his thinking on social issues. After his first marriage ended in divorce, Ginsburg married Obstetrician- Gynecologist Hallee Morgan in 1981. Their two-year-old daughter is also named Hallee Morgan. When asked why the little girl does not have her father's surname, Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute and an old friend of Ginsburg's, told the New York Times, "It is a modern marriage taken to the ultimate."Could Douglas Ginsburg, to the horror of some conservatives, turn out to be an ardent feminist...