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Volume 356:2195 May 24, 2007 Number 21
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Government in Medicine
Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D.

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Although I am not a provider of reproductive medical services, I was alarmed to read of the recent decision of the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart. Why should I feel so concerned? The practical consequences of the "partial-birth abortion" bill are so far from my medical practice in pulmonary and intensive care medicine that the ruling should have no impact on me. Indeed, since most health care practitioners will not be directly affected by this decision, why should we care at all? It is because, as Charo1 and Greene2 point out in this issue of the Journal, with . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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