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...most part the film consists of naked women standing on a hilltop, legs spread apart, with a most unusual, watery, lurid pinkish substance gusing down their legs. The humorous highlights are a mock communion scene in which codeine tablets are taken in place of wafers and menstrual blood is drunk in lieu of wine, and when some woman with a sanitary napkin hooked up over her clothing, leaping about, stomps up and down on a box of Kotex. It's all rather artsy, but in the end there's too much fake blood and not enough...
Edelin's conviction, which resulted from the abortion of a 20-or 22-week-old fetus, should have no direct effect on a woman's right to elect an abortion in the first trimester (three months) of pregnancy-within 14 weeks after the last menstrual period. Abortions at this stage are relatively simple, virtually bloodless procedures; they account for about 800,000 of the 900,000 legal abortions now performed annually in the U.S. Under the 1973 Supreme Court ruling, first-trimester abortions are essentially free of regulation but must be performed by a licensed physician...
...between "Dear Abby" and early Chinese fortune cookie ("There are none so frightened as those who will not concede their fear"; "Life is rarely without pain as well as pleasure, unhappiness as well as happiness"). But squeezed in amid the aphorisms are three nuggets of information: masturbation can relieve menstrual cramps; women seem more sexually responsive about two months after childbirth because of the increased blood supply to the pelvis; and in the first hour of sleep after orgasm, the woman usually moves toward the man, while he tends to stay where...
...they can do the same in humans. Virus-like particles have been found in the breast milk of women with cancer and family histories of the disease. But viruses have also been detected in the milk of women who have not had cancer. Hormones produced by women during the menstrual cycle and pregnancy are also under suspicion, but no one has yet determined how they might cause breast cancer or be controlled to prevent...
...most cases, the discovery of a lump is not a prelude to disaster. The female breast, which changes daily throughout the menstrual cycle, is particularly susceptible to abnormal but harmless growths. Many younger women develop cysts, or small packets of fluid. Fatty growths are not uncommon. In fact, reports the American Cancer Society, 65% to 80% of all breast lumps are not cancerous...