Word: berkowitz
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Those results have not dampened the ethical debate over the practice. Says Dr. John Willke of the National Right to Life Committee: "Fetal reduction is the thinly veiled killing of unwanted babies." But both Wapner and Dr. Richard Berkowitz, head of the Mt. Sinai team, insist that the vast majority of patients come to them for medical reasons, not social ones...
...People are scared--even medical professionals," says Linda Berkowitz, district administrator for the Florida department of health and rehabilitative services. "There are still so many unanswered questions, and myths abound." The fear is greatly out of proportion to the actual risk. Though the disease is invariably fatal, and the number of AIDS cases (now 13,000) has been doubling every ten months, the heterosexual population has scarcely been touched. The vast majority of AIDS victims (73%) are male homosexuals or bisexuals, and most of the rest are drug abusers. Nonetheless, when asked by a CBS-New York Times poll...
Arguing against at least one aspect of the Bossert story, the drowning, was the revelation of Marc Berkowitz, who as a twelve-year-old in 1944 had been one of Mengele's guinea pigs, and also served the doctor as a messenger boy. From his home in New City, N.Y., Berkowitz recalled that the doctor "had a phobia about water. He was afraid of water-carried diseases." Mengele told Berkowitz that he never swam in rivers or lakes. In Brazil, meanwhile, a dentist said that she had treated a man just like Mengele two months after the alleged drowning...
...among many doctors--especially Nathanson's fellow obstetricians--the film has provoked an outcry. "The problem is that it is factually misleading and unfair," says Dr. Richard Berkowitz, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center. Special effects may further the deception, according to Dr. John Hobbins of Yale School of Medicine. Early shots of the fetus seem to be run at a slow speed, but when the abortion instruments are introduced, the film is speeded up, creating the illusion that the fetus is thrashing about in alarm. Actually, says Hobbins, "the fetus appears...
...Capitol Hill last week, pro-choice activists were responding with a media campaign of their own. Their weapon: a clip from a CBS Morning News show featuring a panel of five physicians, Hobbins and Berkowitz among them, tearing into the film. Doubtless Silent Scream has given pro-life forces new momentum, says Ron Fitzsimmons, a lobbyist for the National Abortion Rights Action League, and "it has forced us to respond...