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Most people have seen babies being born on TV specials, but few have ever seen a cervix or watched a suction abortion being performed. Taking Our Bodies Back, produced by Cambridge Documentary Films, demystifies such gynocologia as it raises issues in women's health care which have largely gone unnoticed by women themselves. The discussion ranges from home birth and midwifery to cancer, birth and midwifery to cancer, birth control, hormone drugs, and abortion; even women who thought they knew all about this will be surprised at what they don't know...
...leaf tea to taking calcium ("nature's tranquilizer," said Nutritionist Adelle Davis) before their periods. Some ardent feminists are even urging women friends to examine, smell and taste their own menstrual blood as a way of overcoming traditional attitudes toward menstruation. Others are promoting menstrual extraction-a risky suction procedure-to avoid days of bleeding...
...hooked onto the bumpers of gas-guzzling regular cars at stop lights or highway ramps for a free ride. Another Californian, Mick McMick, urged that Los Angeles be put on "a revolving 'lazy Susan' for easy access all around." John Cody of Lynnfield, Mass., proposed a suction-tube system to "zip" commuters from suburbia to their city offices. Ed Hunter of Dayton, Ohio, felt that giant slingshots hi the suburbs could catapult commuters into outsized baseball catcher's mitts downtown: "Use baby oil to keep the mitt soft," he advised...
...adults recoil in shock when they see him. Even horror-film producers find him too ugly to cast. "One doesn't think of you having a normal figure," somebody tells Pettlement. "It would be more in keeping if you somehow sploshed along the ground or were drawn by suction power...
When the bullet first strikes, it creates suction that draws bacteria from surrounding skin into the wound and the shape of the wound provides impetus for infection. The only way to deal with a high velocity wound is to remove damaged tissue by surgery. Anti-biotic treatment is not sufficient...