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...didn't hold for long - moments later, the battle lines were clear once again. First, Leahy went on the attack, blasting Ashcroft's opposition to defeated Clinton nominee for surgeon general, Dr. David Satcher. Why, Leahy wanted to know, had Ashcroft been so opposed to Satcher, an OB-GYN and pro-choice advocate? Ashcroft, sensing danger, cited "ethical problems" with Satcher's work, refusing to be more specific, mentioning only one of the doctor's controversial medical research projects. Hatch gave Ashcroft a much-needed breather, lobbing a few softballs at his friend until Kennedy stepped in and hammered away...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that learning a language may get harder with age. Hale, who knew some Spanish, found himself outdistanced by his 11-year-old son, who "could take phrases and repeat them back better." Laments Ed Blumenstock, 57, a California ob-gyn: "I hoped that six weeks of classes would be enough, but it's not. I can't have a real conversation without murdering the language...
Last Thursday, when the Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of the abortion pill mifepristone--long known as RU 486--it put fewer restrictions on its use than anyone had expected. Virtually any family doctor or ob-gyn can now prescribe the two-drug regimen, provided he or she has some surgical backup arrangement if it fails to end the pregnancy or there are side effects. No more clinics; no more waiting until pregnancy is far enough along for surgical abortion. Just a series of pills taken over a period of days to induce a miscarriage. Advocates hailed...
...prescribe the drug, a doctor must be able only to date the pregnancy conclusively and, if anything goes wrong, provide surgical intervention, either to complete the abortion or to stop heavy bleeding. "All this says is that physicians prescribing this should be good doctors," says Dr. Wendy Chavkin, an ob-gyn at Columbia School of Public Health. In 1998, when the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation polled family practitioners about their interest in using mifepristone once it was approved and available, 45% of doctors responding said they were "very" or "somewhat" likely to use it--even though only...
...only way the abortion pill changes that is if doctors everywhere decide to offer it. "There are a lot of doctors who feel very strongly that women have a right to make a choice but are unwilling to wear flak jackets to work," says Dr. Diana Dell, an ob-gyn specialist at Duke University Medical Center. "I don't know where it will...