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...This method would potentially give a more accurate reading of which women should be advised to undergo amniocentesis," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. "But among women who might abort rather than give birth to a Down's syndrome baby, if a first-trimester test contains a warning sign, most would be unlikely to want to go through the agony of waiting until the second trimester for a definitive answer. This study contains some interesting clinical observations, but unfortunately what it really shows is that there?s still no conclusive non-invasive test for Down's syndrome...
Months ago, doctors told Nkem Chukwu they couldn't be sure, but they thought she was probably carrying seven fetuses. She and her husband--devout Christians, Nigerian-born U.S. citizens--refused to abort any of them. "I wasn't even going to give it a second thought," she said last week as she was dismissed from St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston. God had blessed her, she explained, and she declared her babies "unique...
...proves herself a master of many genres, but she's no dabbler--what makes this album a wonder is how personally she takes everything. Hill's songs detail, painfully, intelligently, her problems with manipulative men, her childhood in New Jersey, her decision, as a young single mother, not to abort her baby boy. "Sometimes it's hard to really make any statements when you know that the industry caters to hit singles rather than to developing artists," says Hill. "[But] I definitely felt like I wanted to push the envelope of hip-hop. It was very important to me that...
Helen Schulman has proved once again the incredible selfishness of human beings who claim they want to be parents, but only if they are parents of their own biological children [BOOK EXCERPT, May 18]. I believe she truly mourns the loss of the babies that were spontaneously aborted, but what of the child whose parents "spontaneously abort" their role as caregiver? With the world as overpopulated as it is, could Schulman not parent one of those children? After all, she herself said, "The person I saw myself as was a person who took care of a child." Not just...
...near the Pakistani border snap pictures of thick electric cables being installed in a hole at the Pokhran test site. The Clinton Administration leaks word of the preparations to the press, then dispatches a diplomatic team to confront the Indian government with the satellite photos. Rao is forced to abort the test...