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first trade name for mifepristone, a synthetic steroid drug prescribed for inducing abortion during the early weeks of pregnancy. The name is derived from an abbreviation for the pharmaceutical ...
Health and Disease
In 2000 stroke disabled at least 570,000 people in the U.S. alone. Until recently little could be done for the paralysis and loss of function that typically occur. For one thing, it had long been ...
United States
Continuing a recent trend, 11 states approved new laws that further restricted abortion. Mississippi, a state with only one abortion clinic, required that an abortion be done in a hospital or ...
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
American organization that, since its founding in 1942, has worked as an advocate for education and personal liberties in the areas of birth control, family planning, and reproductive health care.United States
The 1960s were marked by the greatest changes in morals and manners since the 1920s. Young people, college students in particular, rebelled against what they viewed as the repressed, conformist ...
Brautigan, Richard
American writer of pastoral, whimsical, often surreal works popular among readers in the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s.Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholic teaching identifies the family as the social and moral centre of the community; the family, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, is "the original cell of social life." ...
birth control
The ethics of birth control has always been a topic of debate. All of the world's major religions endorse responsible parenthood, but when it comes to methods the consensus often dissolves. Hindu and ...
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