Word: processing
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...like a lawyer disbarred. Practically every government document a diplomat touches is classified, so without clearance, the ambassador can do no work. Indyk cannot even walk around the State Department or his own embassy without an escort. Israeli officials fear his absence will damage the Middle East peace process, in which he was intensely involved. Prime Minister Ehud Barak considers him a trusted conduit for exchanges with Washington. Albright defends her decision. "Ambassadors have a responsibility to protect classified documents," she told TIME. But the crackdown could make doing their job more difficult...
...patent rights for mifepristone to the Population Council, a nonprofit reproductive-rights group founded 50 years ago by John D. Rockefeller. The council had to steer the drug through U.S. trials, file the applications for approval, weather the political storms and lawsuits that followed every step of the process. No wonder it took nearly eight years...
...time of the survey, the drug was still crawling through the approval process. Now that it has been cleared, the real test begins. A doctor's decision to offer the drug rests on a complex calculation. Many may read the FDA language about the pill's being limited to "physicians who can accurately determine the duration of a patient's pregnancy" to mean that they should do this with ultrasound--and most do not have ultrasound equipment in their office. Likewise, special training and extra malpractice insurance might dampen enthusiasm for offering the drug. Doctors will have the extra burden...
...likely to be less expensive than surgical abortion, given the number of doctor's visits and the possibility that the pills will sell for $200. And it is not as though you take a pill and the baby disappears. Medical abortion, as opposed to surgical, is a multistep process, requiring three visits to the doctor over a period of two weeks. The first visit is to make sure the pregnancy is still early enough for the pill to be used safely, which will automatically exclude many women who don't realize they are pregnant until more than 49 days after...
Some doctors see a psychological advantage to the new procedure by giving patients the sense that the process is more natural because their body is doing the work, not a surgeon's vacuum. "My patients are usually under a lot of stress and are trying to find the appropriate action to take," says Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and public health at New York's Columbia University, who has conducted many of the mifepristone trials. "For someone who feels backed in a corner, it is good to feel you have a choice...