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...favorable findings come from the Midwest Population Center of Chicago, a nonprofit medical organization that does nothing but perform vasectomies. To evaluate its work, the center sent questionnaires to 740 couples six months after vasectomy. Of the 320 who replied, 70% said that the husband's birth control operation had resulted in "a better sex life," while 30% reported no change. Of the men, 93% asserted that they felt "exactly as much a man as before"; another 6% felt even more masculine. Among the women, 75% considered their sense of femininity unchanged and 22% described it as enhanced...
...there were signs, too, that the times they are achanging. A disk jockey has replaced the orchestra. Dinner is a prix fixe $8.50-less than the average tip in the Elmo's of the '30s and '40s-for the new El Morocco is a private, nonprofit club (initiation fee $500, dues $200). When somebody proposed a toast to Elmo's late founder John Perona, at least one young Ms. whispered, "Who's that...
Some other medical insurance plans pay all or part of the costs. A number of organizations also help out. While regular hospitals usually want to be paid in advance, especially if the woman is a transient, some nonprofit clinics attempt to set terms according to need. In Seattle, the Y.W.C.A. university chapter provides living quarters and counseling for women undergoing abortions, and students at the University of Maine have set up an abortion-loan fund that subsidizes coeds' trips to New York...
...FEELS. Many women find early abortions less traumatic than they had expected. Alice Johnson, who was seven weeks pregnant, reported to Manhattan's nonprofit Women's Services early in the morning to find the waiting room already crowded. "All these girls were sitting there with their boy friends or mothers or fathers or all alone," she said. After an examination and blood tests, Alice was given an explanation of the procedure, birth control information and a tranquilizer. Then she was escorted to an operating room, where a doctor gave her a shot of Novocain; the vacuum-aspiration abortion...
...year of "social service leave"-at full pay-to do anything they want that might contribute to a better society. The restrictions: the employee must have worked for Xerox at least three years, and the activity that he chooses must be legal, nonpolitical and sponsored by an existing nonprofit organization. For example, he might work in the area of civil rights, parole reform, drug-addiction aid or teaching retarded children. Any pay received will be supplemented by the company up to the level of the employee's normal income. He will continue to receive all company benefits...