Bill banning 'partial birth' abortions goes to Clinton

Article Abstract:

Congress passed legislation banning so-called 'partial birth' abortions. Partial birth abortions is an abortion technique performed in late-term pregnancies that requires the extraction via the vagina of all of the fetus except for the head. The third-trimester procedure entails the insertion of a sharp object into the brain, and the suctioning of the brain matter from the fetus' skull. If Pres Clinton vetoes the bill on the grounds that it violates physician-patient privileges, he risks losing a public relations battle with right-to-lifers. Physicians' groups are split over the procedure.

Political organizations, Specialty outpatient clinics, not elsewhere classified, Administration of Public Health Programs, All Other Outpatient Care Centers, Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Health Programs, Abortion Clinics, Abortion & Anti-Abortion Groups, Physicians, Medical professions, Public health, Republican Party (United States), Abortion services, Pro-life groups, Pro-choice groups

---

About-face on abortion opens door for RU-486, fetal research

Article Abstract:

Pres Bill Clinton, two days after taking office, made good on campaign promises by actions that included removing the prohibition against abortion-related counseling by health workers at federally funded clinics. He also directed the Food and Drug Administration to reconsider its refusal to allow the drug mifepristone, or RU-486, into the country with an exemption for 'personal use.' In addition, Clinton ended a moratorium on federal funding of fetal tissue research.

Research, Mifepristone, Fetal tissue transplantation

---

On the frontier or the fringe?

Article Abstract:

Physicist Richard Seed's announcement that he plans to clone a human being has heightened calls for legislation banning human cloning. President Clinton, responding to Seed's statements, characterized human cloning as untested, morally unacceptable, and unsafe. He called on Congress to pass legislation that would ban human cloning for five years. Several legislators are also pushing anticloning legislation.

Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Health Research Regulation, Planning, Political aspects, Medical research, Cloning, United States. Congress, Medical law, Seed, Richard

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: A sense of proportion: transition training and the art of the perfect physique. Your training textbook
• Abstracts: Unilateral transplantation of human fetal mesencephalic tissue into the caudate nucleus of patients with Parkinson's disease
• Abstracts: A good death. Epilepsy care using inside information: epilepsy week this year focuses on the needs of women. Not all washed up
• Abstracts: Guarding the bank. Defining clinical crime: new cases raise questions on what goes to court. Search for malpractice data may lead to medical boards
• Abstracts: Having it all. Building better doctors: medicine coalesces to confront the health maladies in the midst. Action vs. theory at end of life; ethics of life-prolonging care don't always fit bedside decisions

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.