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Pollitt countered that Washington's charge ofrape was supported by a gynecologist who examinedher...
...Alison Carlson, a tennis coach and member of the I.A.A.F. committee that recommended the new test, "is in the simplistic idea we all learned in high school that chromosomes determine gender." While a Y chromosome ordinarily makes someone a man, explains Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson, a University of Tennessee gynecologist who was also on the I.A.A.F. committee, "about 1 in 20,000 people has genes that conflict with his or her apparent gender." In some cases, the Y chromosome is defective and fails to properly signal the body to produce masculinizing hormones -- or in the case...
...dulls their sense of social responsibility. When they hire a handyman, he is (as they might prefer to put it) "differently abled" -- a sweet-souled retardate named Solomon (Ernie Hudson, in a nicely judged performance). When in the course of a prenatal examination Claire is sexually abused by a gynecologist, she comes to feel, after suitable soul searching, that she has no choice but to bring charges against the doctor in order to save others from her experience...
...their young. Last year more than 18,000 babies were born in this building, roughly 1 out of every 200 babies born in the U.S. "Sometimes they are lined up in the hallways and stacked up for C-sections like planes at LAX, six or seven deep," says obstetrician-gynecologist David Grimes...
...doctors, already beset by nit-picking insurance companies, shrinking Medicaid payments and malpractice lawyers, the gag rule seemed the final intrusion -- one that was doubly galling because it came from an Administration many had supported. Says Alan Altman, a gynecologist in Brookline, Mass.: "((The government)) bothers me in the pocketbook, it bothers me in the delivery room, but it has never before bothered me in the consultation room." Dr. Laura Sirott, a Pasadena, Calif., obstetrician- gynecologist who describes herself as a past supporter of Bush, complains that the gag rule violates a patient's right to be fully informed. "This...