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Something new is happening in Washington: Congress is practicing medicine. In recent months, Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation forcing health plans to pay for 48-hour hospital stays for women delivering babies, passed a resolution promoting mammography for women in their forties, and passed a bill outlawing abortions by intact dilation and extraction ("partial-birth abortions").

On February 4, just weeks after a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Advisory Panel found the value of mammography for women in their forties equivocal, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania (an attorney), declared that "even though the evidence may be in doubt in the minds of some scientists, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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