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Volume 330:648-649 March 3, 1994 Number 9
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Women, Pregnancy, and Health Care
At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights

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By Cynthia R. Daniels. 183 pp. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1993. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-05043-6.

The December 5, 1993, Sunday New York Times Magazine had an exceedingly disturbing picture on page 63: a woman, obviously in an advanced state of pregnancy, smoking crack cocaine. It was a picture calculated to drive a few to pity, some to horror, others to fury, and all to despair.

Physicians are among the crack troops in the crack wars. They see addicted men and women come to emergency rooms over and over again, bringing the same problems and leaving with the same nostrums. Rehabilitation programs are too few, too crowded, and too likely to fail. Perhaps it is not . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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