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...Radcliffe student focused their attention upon the Preterm clinic in Brookline. John insists his tactics were different from those of other anti-abortion activists: "Our interest wasn't in trying to judge or confront the women who were there. But it seems to me there's a difference between the women who are (seeking abortions) and the people who are making money off that. To be able to love the clinic operators involved confronting them with what they were doing. We let them know we had no power, that we were just going to sit there between the machine...
...point, John withdrew from further sit-ins at Preterm and returned to college. "It seemed that going back wouldn't be an act of hope or love. There's so much ambiguity, complexity, and violence structured into the society that leads to abortion, that makes pregnancy a problem, a woman's problem." This thinking led him to try and develop support systems for the women who changed their minds. "We were taking people into our house in the South End, so that anyone who wanted to leave the clinic had a place to stay for a while. (Some of them...
...reduce deaths and disability among such infants, their problems remain acute. Besides respiratory distress syndrome, "preemies" are susceptible to heart problems, damage to the gastrointestinal tract, cerebral palsy and mental retardation. Says Rosanne's physician, Dr. Irwin Merkatz, an obstetrical perinatologist at MacDonald House-University Hospitals of Cleveland: "Preterm delivery is the single biggest problem in obstetrics today...
...either the mother or baby." That would rule out women with hypertension or heart conditions, and pregnancies in which the placenta has separated from the uterus or in which the amniotic sac has ruptured and become infected. Nonetheless, ritodrine should be useful to about a quarter of women in preterm labor. Says Merkatz: "It's not a panacea for the whole problem of premature delivery. But it will certainly help...
Richards said yesterday Preterm plans to remain open in spite of the strike. "I anticipate that we will do everything we can to hire permanent replacements" for strikers, she added...