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...replacement for the controversial Joycelyn Elders, President Clinton nominated Henry Foster Jr., a Nashville, Tennessee, obstetrician-gynecologist and acting head of Meharry Medical College, to become the nation's new Surgeon General. The President said he wanted Foster, the founder of a Nashville program aimed at delaying teen sexual activity through counseling, job training and medical services, to focus on battling the nation's "epidemic of teen pregnancies and unmarried pregnancies." Conservative groups immediately labeled Foster "Elders Lite," because he supports the use of condoms. He has admitted performing "fewer than a dozen'' abortions, but most congressional Republicans withheld their...
...replacement for the controversial Joycelyn Elders, President Clinton nominated Henry Foster Jr., a Nashville, Tennessee, obstetrician-gynecologist and acting head of Meharry Medical College, to become the new U.S. Surgeon General. The President said he wanted Foster, the founder of a Nashville program aimed at delaying teen sexual activity through counseling, job training and medical services, to focus on battling the nation's ``epidemic of teen pregnancies and unmarried pregnancies...
...doctor supported by the AMA, a man who piloted a program to help teenagers avoid unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, an obstetrician with 30 years of experience, draw so much fire so quickly...
Though they are overwhelmingly white and male, the House freshmen--who include an obstetrician, a florist, an accountant, an insurance agent and a onetime member of Sonny and Cher--can claim to be something different from the usual crop of lawyers. They are the Jacobins in this revolution. After dropping out of college in 1980, Texas Representative Steve Stockman spent a summer homeless on the streets of Fort Worth. Eventually he found shelter with relatives and a job in a steel mill and made his way back to college. In his ear- ly 20s, Tennessee's Zach Wamp struggled back...
...honest with ourselves, we know that we could do much better at preventing abortion," said Fretts, an obstetrician at Beth Israel Hospital. "Although abortion is safer than childbearing, many women could avoid the difficult decision and surgical procedure if contraceptive options were improved and if safe, effective and easy-to-use methods together with family planning were more widely available...