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...number of doctors argue that German measles is no valid reason for abortion. Says Tulane's Dr. Isadore Dyer, a chief of obstetrics at New Orleans' vast Charity Hospital: "If between 10% and 20% of the women who contract the disease in those first three months are going to have babies with anomalies, it seems rather drastic to destroy the other 80% or 90% to guard against this." Other physicians take precisely the opposite view. Dr. Daniel G. Morton, obstetrics chief at the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles, states frankly: "Therapeutic abortions have been done...
Most hospitals have committees of three to seven physicians to pass on staff members' recommendations for therapeutic abortions. But the boards have vastly different standards. Says Dr. Rosen: "The definitions of valid reason for abortion vary from physician to physician, from hospital to hospital, and from day to day within the same hospital. The board of one hospital may refuse to accept a recommendation, yet the same application may be almost immediately submitted to the board of an adjacent hospital-with, at times, almost the same staff-and be approved...
...itself. However, the additional misfortune of printing it along with the agonizing Los Angeles riot story lent a nightmarish, Kafkaesque irony to both pieces. One wonders just which group is the more adolescent, futile and self-destructive. At least the Watts rioters had damn strong and pretty valid motivation for their temporary loss of reason...
...warrant required endorsement by an officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the British-paid police force that was replaced in 1922 by Ireland's own Garda Siochana (Peace Guard). Because the old constabulary was defunct, the House of Lords ruled that Irish warrants were no longer valid in Britain...
...been performed on it. Now most insist only that the body be intact (not mutilated, as after many accidents). Post-mortem subjects and commercially embalmed bodies are also unsuitable. The schools themselves use special embalming techniques for preservation. Most schools have developed what they call "bequeathal kits" of legally valid forms: several issue a wallet card (see cut), to be carried at all times along with the driver's license and credit cards...