Word: laws
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...Britons are getting legal abortions under the National Health Service, which has too few gynecological surgeons and hospitals with enough ob-stetrics-gynecology beds to satisfy the rising demand. Previously, each year produced about 10,000 legal or Bourne rule abortions. In the first eight months under the new law there were 22,256, and it is expected that the total for the first twelve months will go to at least 35,000, possibly to 50,000. Even though as many as 15,000 of these operations this year may be performed in private hospitals and nursing homes, the rest...
Change in Attitude. Many doctors are protesting, some have become highly emotional about the matter, and a few are trying to sabotage the law. In Birmingham, England's second-largest city (pop. 1,200,000), Professor Hugh McLaren, a strong-willed Scottish Presbyterian, simply refuses to perform abortions except in case of "dire peril" to the woman's life. Since he is head of the NHS's Maternity Hospital there, he can decree what subordinates may or may not do-and they may not perform abortions. The effect of the McLaren ukase is to send most Birmingham...
...most distressing to the protesting doctors is the fact that some of their colleagues are making a lot of money out of abortions in London's private Harley Street hospitals and suburban nursing homes. For that, no effective remedy is in sight. One opponent of the present law wants to amend it by imposing a six-month residence requirement to quash the jet-set trade, but no amendment can take effect for three years...
Even with its obvious defects, the law has had an enormous effect on the attitude of the woman seeking abortion. While she used to appear in her doctor's office weeping, cringing and remorseful, she now walks in self-possessed, knowing that she has certain rights and confident of talking out her problem sensibly with her doctor. In a growing number of cases, she succeeds...
...mankind's emotional problems to the first formative years of life, minimizing most subsequent influences on the psyche. Moreover, some critics consider analysis defective because of its emphasis on pathology. By churning the invisible wellsprings of maladjustment, Freud sought to discover normality-which is somewhat like describing the law-abiding citizen through the reprehensible habits of the underworld. He focused on what he called the id-man's dark, powerful and basic animal urges-at the expense of the ego, even while recognizing the ego as the vital mediator between instinct and environment. Thus he missed, or scanted...