Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Efforts to boost federal support for birth control have run up against conservative opposition. Right-to-lifers are particularly determined to block the U.S. introduction of RU-486, a French-made drug that can induce menstruation after fertilization takes place. Opponents call RU-486 the abortion pill. "Contraception," says Judie Brown, president of the American Life Lobby, "means better killing through chemistry...
...failure to develop any new kinds of contraception has helped lead to 1.5 million abortions a year in the U.S. By some estimates, up to half of them could be prevented if women had more birth-control options. Jennifer, a 20-year-old college student in Maine, has already had two abortions, following unsuccessful attempts to use the Pill and a diaphragm. "At this point I'm afraid to have sex," she says. "I don't know what...
...plight of women like Jennifer and Amy will not improve until there is an overhaul of federal policy on birth control. The NAS report calls on the FDA to streamline its stringent rules for the approval of new contraceptives. The authors also recommend that pharmaceutical companies be given federal protection from liability suits so that they will be encouraged to get back into the contraceptive business. Unless something is done quickly, the situation for U.S. women may be no better in the 21st century than it is today...
...creating development and the "geranium" of quality of life, public opinion today is clearly on the side of the geranium. "Environment, growth and crime are the big issues in this race," says Feinstein's chief strategist William Carrick. "In a way they are all rolled up into one: losing control of the California dream...
...course of German events is a clear demonstration of how weak Soviet influence has become. The cold war's first frosts were felt in the months after V-E day in 1945 over Soviet attempts to force the Allies out of Berlin and consolidate Soviet control over Germany. The Soviets were determined that the Germans would never rise again and that their obedient Prussian and Saxon servants would rule permanently in East Germany. As elsewhere in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union could influence events only as long as it was willing to use its military power...