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...week 28 to 4 to recommend that the pill known as Plan B be as easy to buy as condoms or cough syrup. Plan B is a high-dose oral contraceptive that prevents fertilization or the implantation of a fertilized egg within 72 hours after intercourse. (Unlike the drug RU 486, it cannot induce an abortion.) "The vote," says committee member James Trussell, director of Princeton's office of population research, "provides a very powerful signal to women that this drug is safe." Although the FDA typically follows the recommendations of its advisory panels, some political opposition could yet emerge...
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...tragic face of the SARS epidemic in Taiwan doesn't belong to a patient or a politician, or even to a doctor or a nurse. Instead, the most vivid expression of this outbreak's impact can be found on an eight-year-old girl, Tang Chia-ru, who wears her hair in pigtails and, when given the choice, prefers noodles to rice. Last Friday, she stood behind her father fidgeting with her face mask and staring at the swarm of photographers who surrounded her and at the smiling face of her mother who looked down from a picture frame hanging...
...late, though, for eight-year-old Chia-ru. Her father, Tang Se-hu, says she is still trying to comprehend the loss of her mother and misses the trips she used to make to the hospital where, he says, "her mom was always working." He adds, "she knows her mom helped care for people and saved lives." When she's older she will no doubt wish that someone had taken more care with her mother's life...
Unfortunately, delays and restrictions are becoming more common as a result of increasingly restrictive legislation. Bush’s new appointee to the FDA Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee, David Hager, is in favor of making the morning-after pill, RU-486, illegal. Bush supports a policy that would prohibit military women serving abroad from obtaining safe medical abortions at local military hospitals overseas. Eighteen states have passed laws that force women to delay their abortions for a specified period of time, generally at least 24 hours. In some states, the laws require women to make two trips...