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...dollar for most nongroup health companies. For that reason, Denenberg has proposed giving Blue Cross and other group systems a statewide health insurance monopoly. He has also blasted doctors for performing unnecessary hysterectomies: "They have got everybody's tonsils, and now they are after the uterus...
...defect is immediately identified; 43 states now require a PK.U test at birth. Doctors can recognize the chromosomal flaw that causes mongolism and 27 of the genetic quirks known to cause retardation. More important, they can diagnose these in the fetus by amniocentesis. A needle is inserted into the uterus to draw off a sample of the fluid in which the fetus floats. The material is analyzed for extra or missing chromosomes or absent enzymes...
...Cancer of the inner lining of the uterus (the endometrium) can usually be cured if it is diagnosed early enough. But that is a big if. The simple Pap smear, which is effective for detecting cancer of the cervix (neck of the uterus), cannot always pick up endometrial cancer. Dilatation and curettage, used to obtain cells from the uterine lining for analysis, requires hospitalization and is impractical unless the disease is already suspected. By then it may be too late; endometrial cancer kills about 3,500 American women a year. The Gravlee Jet Washer, a new device now being marketed...
...cofounder. "In essence you walk into female reality and are forced to identify with women." Thus the linen closet showed a manikin housewife trapped amidst the laundry, and the "Womb Room" consisted of a thicket of fibers that drooped, in Chicago's words, "like an exhausted uterus." In the flesh-colored kitchen, fried eggs made from sponge were stuck to the walls and ceiling, and some of them were transmuted into human breasts-all demonstrating what their creator called "the imprisonment of the female in a nurturing role...
...Jefferson emphatically asserted that the removal of a fertilized egg from the uterus at any time is the killing of a human being...