Word: uteruses
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...knows precisely what causes fibroid tumors. No one can say why those abnormal muscle-like growths in the uterus are so common, with 40% of women over 35 believed to have them. But this much is certain: fibroids cause an awful lot of misery. Although many fibroids remain small and symptomless, the benign tumors can grow to the size of grapefruits or even cantaloupes. Women with large fibroids often experience unrelenting pressure on the bladder and menstrual bleeding heavy enough to cause anemia. Fibroids are the reason for 30% of the 600,000 hysterectomies performed each year...
Like many women burdened with fibroids, Dorla Smith, 48, found the surgical options unappealing. The Chicago accountant dismissed the idea of a hysterectomy as "out of the question." She didn't want to face major surgery, the loss of her uterus and a prolonged recovery period. And she was uncomfortable with a less invasive option called uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), which involves injecting pellets of glycerin into the arteries that lead to the fibroids, choking off their blood supply. UFE can cause temporary but intensely painful cramps. But after living for three years with occasional pain and a belly swollen...
...task force report compares the experience of women who go to Planned Parenthood, the state?s primary abortion provider, with those who go to crisis pregnancy centers. It charges that women are ?misled? by abortion providers, who dehumanize the fetus (calling it ?tissue? or ?the contents of the uterus?) and do not reveal that ?the procedure will terminate the life of a human being.? An epidemic of remorse and depression results. At the crisis pregnancy centers, nearly a third of women arrive considering having an abortion, but barely 2% go forward after they are counseled about the nature of fetal...
...that is out of stock--runs down the clock toward an unplanned pregnancy. The drug, a high-dose variant of ordinary birth-control pills, works in a similar way, by preventing ovulation and fertilization. It can also inhibit a fertilized egg from implanting itself on the wall of the uterus, resulting in what anti--abortion-rights advocates say is effectively an abortion. In any case, it can do nothing to end an existing pregnancy. About 1.3 million prescriptions for Plan B were filled last year, generating $30 million in revenue for its manufacturer, Barr Pharmaceuticals. Now that Wal-Mart...
...drug, which is available only by prescription, is a high-dose variant of ordinary birth control pills and works in a similar way, by preventing ovulation and fertilization. It can also work by inhibiting a fertilized egg from implanting itself in the uterus, a process that anti-abortion-rights advocates say is effectively an abortion. In a concession to opponents, Wal-Mart will keep its policy allowing individual pharmacists with moral qualms about Plan B to turn a customer down, as long as they refer her to another pharmacist or nearby pharmacy. (That policy will not apply in Massachusetts...