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...Gloyce Qualls, 41, was involuntarily transferred from a high-risk area at Johnson Controls, where she welded posts onto batteries, to a safer workplace, where she cleaned and installed vents in motorcycle batteries. The move halved her salary. To get back to the higher-paying post, Qualls underwent tubal ligation. She subsequently married and now regrets that she can no longer bear children. "Nothing really would make up for it," she says. "But this decision will help other women...
...people in Vineland have been steeped in TV long enough to become pickled. Some of them are Tubefreeks, whose habits of Tubal abuse alert the vigilant authorities at NEVER (National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation). No one, however ascetic, seems immune to this electronic rescrambling of brain cells. A member of the Thanatoids, a Northern California cult enamored of death and resentful at still being alive, notes that his people look at TV religiously: "There'll never be a Thanatoid sitcom, 'cause all they could show'd be scenes of Thanatoids watchin' the Tube...
More than half a million U.S. women are unable to bear children because their Fallopian tubes have been blocked or damaged, usually by sexually transmitted infections. Yet the risk of tubal infertility can easily be reduced. How? By the use of so-called barrier contraceptives -- diaphragms, cervical caps and condoms -- which bar the passage of sperm into the uterus...
That was the conclusion reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team led by Gynecologist Daniel Cramer of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. After studying past contraceptive use by 283 childless women with tubal infertility and 3,833 new mothers, the researchers found that women who had used barrier contraceptives had 40% less risk of tubal infertility. The explanation, suggests one of the report's authors, Harvard Epidemiologist Marlene Goldman, is that these contraceptives prevent any germs carried in the semen from reaching the upper genital tract and causing pelvic inflammatory disease...
...boom is fueled by financial practicalities as well as feminist principles. According to the American Hospital Association, women visit doctors 25% more often than men do and account for 63% of all surgery. Eleven of the 20 most frequent surgical procedures (notably tubal ligations and breast biopsies) are performed only on women. Moreover, women generally choose the family doctor and health-insurance package. Such medical realities have led to fierce and unapologetic wooing. Women's HealthCare and Wellness Center in Oak Park, Ill., signed up Dorothy Hamill, Ann Jillian and Rita Moreno to promote its opening last November. Intermountain Health...