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...subsequent miscarriages, infertility or even death. More recently, they claimed to have discovered a form of delayed stress, similar to that experienced by some Viet Nam vets, that can result in severe depression years after an abortion. Last week both claims were undercut by the release of a report on the effects of abortion by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and by the conclusions of a panel of the American Psychological Association...
...draft report was prepared by Koop in 1987 at the request of President Ronald Reagan to examine the physical and psychological dangers of abortion. In January, the avidly pro-life Koop announced that he could not issue the report because the scientific data were flawed and inconclusive. Subpoenaed by a House subcommittee that oversees some health budgets, the Surgeon General's report concluded that "abortion imposes a relatively low physical risk" for women. Acknowledging his strong "pro-life bias," Koop testified that any public-health problem associated with abortion is "minimal...
Henderson will send the client's supervisor a status report and a schedule of goals: a new hairstyle by next Saturday, three new garments that work together by March 31, a diet and exercise regimen to shed five pounds a month through October. ("What will you do if you haven't got to 5 lbs. by the end of this month?" Henderson asks. "I'll just kill myself," the client jokes. Then she becomes corporate: "I'll re-evaluate.") Whether all this will win the client her promotion, Henderson cannot...
Ironically, it was the Government's failure to apply a safe-rather-than- sorry standard to another fruit that set off a similar fruit frenzy a week earlier. It started with a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group, that apples treated with the growth regulator Alar were soaking small children with dangerously high levels of daminozide, a possible carcinogen. 60 Minutes aired the story, and actress Meryl Streep, now a leading lady in the fight against pesticides, was quickly booked solid on talk shows and Capitol Hill. Soon apples were ordered removed from school cafeterias...
According to the report of the three-man board (John Tower, Edmund Muskie and Brent Scowcroft), which interviewed Reagan twice, the President insisted "he did not know that the NSC staff was engaged in helping the contras" from 1984 to 1986, when Congress banned U.S. military assistance to the rebels. But North, a former NSC aide charged with lying to Congress about his efforts to keep the contras intact, hopes to persuade a jury in Washington that Reagan and other superiors fully approved his activities...