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...SOUND APPROACH In more than 14,000 pregnancies each year, mother and fetus have incompatible blood types. In these cases, the mother's immune system may attack the fetus' red blood cells, causing potentially fatal anemia in the unborn baby. Now doctors report a painless way to screen for the problem. A special Doppler ultrasound placed over a mother's belly was shown to be 100% effective in detecting moderate to severe fetal anemia. That sure beats today's invasive screening procedures like cordocentesis, in which a blood sample is taken from the umbilical cord, with an attendant risk...
...chosen successor, but "will if I'm President"; that he doesn't know much about controlling nuclear arms but will hire people "who know a heck of a lot more about the subject than I do"; or that he spouts gobbledygook ("It is not only the life of the unborn...it is the life of the living...
UNEMPLOYMENT TOLL How stressful can losing a job be for a family? Serious enough to affect the health of an unborn child. A study in December's Journal of Health and Social Behavior reveals that as male unemployment increases, so does the incidence of low-birth-weight infants. Among pregnant women, stress is a risk factor for giving birth to such babies. The research suggests that jobless families should consider enrolling in stress-management programs where possible...
...McCain has softness of his own. Social conservatives are particularly suspicious of him. While admiring his service to his country, some have been worried about his commitment to the unborn ever since he told the San Francisco Chronicle last August that he would not work to overturn Roe v. Wade. Others cite his willingness to meet with gay Republicans--though he opposes gay marriage and gay adoption--as a possible indication of openness to the "gay-rights agenda...
...take away a woman?s right to choose." The rhetoric on the flip side of the issue is no less passionate. Rep. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained to CNN, "This bill doesn?t erode a woman?s right to choose; it puts limits on criminals? rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman...