Word: obstetricians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without his glasses, he sent a secretary out of the room on the pretext of fetching them. The secretary promptly telephoned the local radio station, and while most Cipolenos were at their midday meal, they heard a broadcast describing the "reprehensible outrage." Quickly they rallied to support Salto, an obstetrician who since 1963 had vastly improved the city's school, water and sewer systems, set up neighborhood medical dispensaries and won wide popularity...
...should also be the obstetrician's responsibility, added Adamsons, to minimize the danger that the baby will be deprived of oxygen during labor and delivery. At present, he said, 20% to 25% of all U.S. babies suffer some oxygen deficiency during birth; 3% to 4% are "severely afflicted" and may develop cerebral palsy or other handicaps...
Legal Challenge. To Obstetrician Aleck William Bourne (now retired but a hale 82), this strict regulation seemed outrageous. In 1938 he performed an abortion on a 14-year-old girl,who had been gang-raped by horse guardsmen, then invited the Attorney General of England to prosecute him. After 40 minutes' deliberation, the jury acquitted Bourne-and the "Bourne rule" stood for 30 years. Its effect was to make abortion available to any Englishwoman who was articulate and well-off enough to persuade doctors to certify, by a liberal interpretation of the law, that continuation of her pregnancy would...
...Army training short, but it does have an undeniable effect on audiences. "The reaction everywhere is the same," confides a publicist for the film. "As soon as the head of the baby appears from a wave of blood, 90% of the spectators turn their heads away. And when the obstetrician cuts the umbilical cord, people faint regularly...
John Cassavetes plays Guy as much too blah a character to have done what the script says he did, and Ralph Bellamy behind a full grey beard seems hardly sinister enough to be Dr. Sapirstein, the occultivated obstetrician. These minor lapses, though, do not seriously affect the bewitching qualities of the film-which, in addition to being superb suspense, is a wicked argument against planned parenthood...