Word: pregnant
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POLICYMAKERS are trying to counteract the health system's bias towards institutional care. President Bush recently proposed increasing Medicaid coverage to 130 percent of the poverty line for pregnant women and infants. And Representative Mickey Leland (D-Tx.) and Senator Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) have introduced legislation which would expand this ceiling to 185% of the poverty line...
...expansion of Medicaid would immediately expand financial access to prenatal care for many American mothers-to-be. But financial access is only one component of actual access to care. Pregnant women must first weave through a maze of Medicaid regulations to become covered by the program. OTA called this process "a formidable barrier to the receipt of timely care." But with the first few months of pregnancy being crucial to the health of the baby, pregnant women can scarcely afford to wait while overworked welfare bureaucrats process their applications...
Dante's swingers spend eternity in pitch darkness and buffeting winds. The consequences of 19-year-old Andy's passions are more prosaic. Having got his girlfriend pregnant, he is forced to borrow abortion money from a 50-year-old matron who has been trying to seduce him. Keeping one woman from knowing about the other foreshadows a more elaborate predicament in Parent's early middle...
...fact that is not in dispute is the desperate lack of medical facilities to help pregnant women with drug problems. In California, for example, there are only five full-time drug-treatment programs that accept pregnant women, and waiting lists are up to six months long. Some doctors are concerned that by threatening to prosecute pregnant drug users, officials will end up driving away even those women who could be assisted. "This sends a clear message to the women most in need of prenatal health, that it is dangerous for them to get help," says Dr. Ira Chasnoff, president...
With no end in sight for the current epidemic of drug use, it appears that pregnant women will increasingly be held accountable for behavior that jeopardizes their babies' health. "These cases are really mounting," says Harvard law professor Kathleen Sullivan, "and prosecutors are going to go wild until the courts stop them." Despite criticism of his actions, Winnebago County state's attorney Paul Logli, who is prosecuting the manslaughter and drug charges against Green, stands by his policy. Says he: "This is not a fetal-rights case or a pro-choice case or a pro-life case. We're dealing...