Word: wade
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...most routine procedures can go awry, whether or not doctors are at fault. New York City was stunned last week by the news that a four-year-old girl had died following a tonsillectomy, an operation that is almost never deadly. Like 100,000 other Americans each year, Desiree Wade was sent home a few hours after the surgery, which was performed at St. Luke's hospital in Manhattan. She developed a fever and became increasingly sick. Her coughs apparently tore open the surgical wounds in her throat, and she bled to death. There is no evidence that the surgeon...
Strident anti-abortion warriorsOperation Rescueset up shop today in the same Dallas office building as the health clinic that employs the woman whose landmark 1973 court case legalized abortion in the U.S. Only an interior wall separates the neighbors. Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade, told Reuters she is not exactly thrilled with her new neighbors, but the clinic has no intention of moving out: "We are here for the duration."Operation Rescue'snational director Flip Benham said: "It's a tremendous place. At the killing center, at the gates of Hell, is where the church...
...their noses, say they personally don't like abortion-as if a personal preference substitutes for a clear-cut public policy. Dole and Gramm wriggle out of answering the key questions: Would you support a human-life amendment to the Constitution? And would you seek to overturn Roe v. Wade by appointing Supreme Court Justices pledged...
...anything new be said about abortion? after more than a quarter-century of frenzied debate and denunciation (which began well before Roe v. Wade), one might think not. But there is at least one viewpoint that polls indicate is widely held but that is hardly ever heard amid the screams of "Murderer!" and "Keep your rosaries off my ovaries!" It deserves a full and reasoned exposition, however; it might even shed some light on the controversies about the confirmation of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General and about harassment of abortion clinics. It is that abortion is justifiable only...
...accompanies Captain Lancey (Geoffrey Wade) and Lieutenant George Yolland (Michael Compsty) as they enter the schoolhouse with their renaming plan. The native spirit of Ballybeg fascinates George. "I've moved to a consciousness that isn't striving and agitated, but is perfectly at ease with its self-assurance," he says...