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Billed as safer than birth control pills, some 3.6 million units were sold in the U.S. The shield was pulled from the market in 1974 after design defects and poor medical directions were accused of causing injuries and sterility...
...general public. Women's rights organizations are thrilled. Right-to-lifers hate it. But there is a large middle group of Americans who have strong views on abortion, and no one can predict if they will approve of making abortion easier, even if medical data shows the drug is safer than surgical abortion. "If we had our choice, this would not have come in election season," says one official...
...hemming and hawing over final approval for RU-486 for almost four years, is under enormous pressure - from both the medical and political worlds. Anti-abortion activists are predictably opposed to the pill, while abortion rights groups argue RU-486 offers women a more private, less invasive and ultimately safer way to terminate unwanted pregnancies...
Congress and the Supreme Court have given prosecutors such powers in order to protect against terrorists and spies. But too often, argues Jonathan Turley, national security expert and law professor at George Washington University, prosecutors use national security to make their jobs easier, not to make the country safer. "The government routinely makes outlandish allegations about national security," he says, "to force plea agreements...
Murray Gerber, founder of Prototype & Plastic Mold Co., based in Middleton, Conn., developed lighter, safer, cheaper, longer-lasting industrial bearings for United Technologies in the '90s. Without the tax credit, which went to United Technologies, Gerber doubts that his tiny, $9 million company would have received the R.-and-D. contract. Now those bearings are in wide use throughout the military...