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...Pill Poisoning
...healthy and happily married Arizona woman, mother of four children, last week went to court to ask approval for an illegal act: getting an abortion. Her fifth child, she fears, might be hideously deformed as a result of her taking the sleeping pill thalidomide...
...testosterone or produced synthetically, speed the development of muscle tissue, increase aggressiveness and promote strength. Prescribed in hospitals to promote weight gain among burn victims, surgical patients and others, steroids have long been the training drug of choice for body builders, football players and weightlifters. Injected or swallowed in pill form, the drug does help add weight, but there is no conclusive medical proof that it increases strength. The evidence is mounting, however, that steroids' often irreversible side effects include kidney, liver and heart failure, and increased vulnerability to cancer. Adolescent users can suffer crippling bone stunting and arrested...
...Etsuko Negishi, a woman gynecologist. One reason for the routine acceptance of abortion as a means of birth control is that culturally and religiously the Japanese do not consider sex, or abortion, as presenting moral problems. A more practical reason is the fact that the most effective contraceptive, the pill, is still believed to be medically unsafe, and has never been approved for general use, despite Japan's dense population...
Certainly, Thatcherism is a bitter pill to swallow for liberals in the U.K., but at this point there is nothing else on the table. The currently obsolete Labor Party, which has flirted with socialism and communism, finally received the as from an English public fed up with outlandish proposals about quitting the Common Market, nationalizing many prime industries and scrapping the country's military defenses...