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...fairly tame set-tos with a door-to-door salesman and a psychiatrist, but her future outings will include a look at legalizing marijuana and a fling at black-radical-chic party giving ? la Leonard Bernstein. In one episode not yet okayed by the network, she even gets pregnant and decides to seek an abortion, while her shaken husband looks into the vasectomy market...
...fertility clinics are not the only place where embryos are routinely destroyed in the course of making a baby. Every year, in the U.S. alone, nature (or God) kills hundreds of thousands of embryos so young that the bearer didn't even know she was pregnant. About 15% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, most of them in the embryo stage. Although there is research going on to reduce miscarriages for the sake of would-be mothers, there is no big crusade to save the lives of these lost embryos...
Cosmetic companies usually love to trumpet their "miracle" ingredients. But placenta--the embryonic tissue formed in pregnant mammals and used for decades as a wrinkle reducer--is one beautifier that has long been kept under wraps. That may be changing: Mila Skin Care's new Amber Cream Placental has become a hot seller by proudly promoting the taboo ingredient. A 59-year-old aesthetician in Beverly Hills, Calif., says she gave up Botox injections a month after she started using the skin smoother. "The lines are just staying away," she says...
...quite, of course. This year the Court ruled 6-3 that drug testing pregnant women without their consent and forwarding the results to law enforcement authorities was an unconstitutional search (Ferguson v. City of Charleston) and, in another 6-3 decision, that police roadblocks using drug-sniffing dogs were also verboten. On the other hand, the justices found, 5-4, that it was not an unconstitutional seizure to arrest someone, handcuff her and ship her off to jail for driving without a seat belt when the maximum penalty for the offense was a $50 fine (Atwater v. City of Lago...
...another entry in the good news on social trends column: Teen pregnancy is at its lowest level in the past 20 years. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 9.4 percent of girls ages 15 to 19 became pregnant in 1997 (the last year for which data was available). That?s a 19 percent drop since its peak...