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...matron replied that there was no mistake. "Pull down your pants, squat three times, and spread your vagina," she ordered. When the girl's disbelief turned to defiance, the matron calmly warned: "If you don't cooperate, six guys will come in and do it for me." The matron first probed the girl's anus and then, without washing or using sanitary gloves, examined her vagina. The girl's humiliation was increased when she noticed several video cameras in the room, part of a closed-circuit security system with monitors at the desk in the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Outrage in the Station House | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...most painful abortions in Chicago. He makes a pencil mark on the leg of his scrub suit for each abortion and tallies them up at the end of the day. In their haste, doctors often fail to remove all the necessary tissue. Sometimes they perforate the uterus or vagina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Risky Abortions | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Under normal circumstances, pregnancy occurs when an ovum, or egg cell, released by a woman's ovary during ovulation is fertilized in the fallopian tube by a single sperm that has traveled up from the vagina. After the fertilized egg undergoes a number of cell divisions, the tiny clump of cells enters the uterus, where it burrows into the wall and develops until birth. But the Browns, married nine years, had been unable to conceive a child because of Lesley's faulty fallopian tubes. "Three years ago," Lesley says, "we were told that there was no chance that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Test-Tube Baby | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...failed, or seemed unsuitable. Yet such abortifacients (as these drugs are called) had serious shortcomings. Usually administered intravenously, they often caused stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other physical problems. Thus pharmaceutical firms have looked for artificial variants without side effects that could be delivered directly into the vagina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Magic Bullet | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...week completely aborted 86% of his patients who had missed their period for twelve to 37 days. Bleeding usually began within six to eight hours after the drug was administered (in the form of three to five waxy, bullet-shaped white suppositories inserted one at a time into the vagina at three-hour intervals). The World Health Organization has given its blessings to more widespread clinical trials for the drug. If it proves safe and reliable, WHO officials feel it can help to contain an exploding global population. Some medical questions must be settled as well. An overdose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Magic Bullet | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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