Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the pill finds a maker, how will it reach the taker? Its proponents, especially those hoping to make the clinic protesters vanish, agree that France's tightly controlled distribution method was devised, as a New England Journal of Medicine editorial put it, "for political rather than scientific reasons." One common yet radical suggestion is that RU 486 and prostaglandin could be sold to women as prescription drugs and taken at home. "To even suggest that you could do that is ridiculous," protests Judie Brown, president of the American Life League. That sentiment finds some support even from Baulieu...
...administered by gynecologists outside of a clinic environment. He supports the "two-visit" plan: the woman is examined, takes the first set of pills, goes home, takes the second two days later, and returns to the doctor to make sure the process has been completely effective. Advocates of this method make two assumptions about the woman: that she will have the emotional fortitude to go through an experience on her own, and that she will get to a hospital if she becomes one of the rare cases where there is excess bleeding or other complications. Lynne Randall, director...
...Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor of RU 486, and his French colleagues describe the successful tests of the no-injection method in the New England Journal of Medicine. "This new regimen," they conclude, "is simpler and potentially allows greater privacy than any other abortion method." In a tough accompanying editorial, the Journal brands efforts to block use of the drug in the U.S. a "disgrace...
...that description differs from the indictment's charge that Y & A existed only as "a vehicle for Daniel Young and others to profit from the Colombian asset and other [less developed country] debt." The district attorney alleges that the creation of the company was an important method Young used to exploit the inside information he gleaned from his work at Manufacturers...
...also plans to continue his unorthodox classroom method, encouraging his students to focus on the details of stories about the historical periods they are studying. It is an approach which, he says "fold[s] them into the world" of history...