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Making the speech the big story seemed right, putting Clinton in the role that makes kids comfortable: leader, shaper of America's future. "There are very few heroes for kids today," points out Marissa Rosoff, a child-welfare and attendance specialist for the Burbank, Calif., public schools. "What's sad about this mess," she says, "is that kids like Bill Clinton: he's young, he likes Big Macs...
...better to put the money into social services and into education for young women and men." Some medical facilities also fear that they will be put in the role of inquisitor, forced to ask girls who seek pregnancy services about the identity of the partner. And Jeannie Rosoff, president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, cautions that when it comes to sex, things like blame tend to get a little murky. "You cannot automatically condemn the man," she says. "The girl could have lied about her age. You really don't know what happens in those transactions...
Albert P. Zabin and Marcia J. Allar, attorneysfor the plaintiff, argued that Rosoff did not doenough to correctly diagnose her. Allar said thatRosoff based his diagnosis solely on feeling thepatient's breast...
...interview this week, Rosoff's lawyer,Barbara H. Buell, said Rosoff had no reason toadminister a mammogram...
Buell said it is not standard procedure to givemammograms to women of Thrope's young age. Thefact that Thrope was pregnant at the time and thepossibility that radiation from the X ray could beharmful contributed to Rosoff's decision not toadminister a mammogram, she said...