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- <text id=92TT2780>
- <title>
- Dec. 14, 1992: Radical Prophylaxis
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 14, 1992 Somalia
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 23
- SOCIETY
- Radical Prophylaxis
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- <p>Students to be offered surgical implants to avoid pregnancies
- </p>
- <p> With one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the
- nation, Baltimore already provides birth-control pills and
- condoms to its public school students. But health officials have
- decided that extra measures are needed. Starting in January,
- school clinics will begin offering Norplant, a surgically
- implanted contraceptive that lasts for five years.
- </p>
- <p> About 500,000 women nationwide use the device, which
- consists of six capsules inserted under the skin on a woman's
- upper arm. Inserting the capsules is a simple medical
- procedure, and they can later be removed to restore fertility.
- Despite the new option, however, officials say they will
- continue to recommend abstinence as the best way to avoid
- pregnancy, and even students who receive the contraceptives will
- be urged to use condoms to avoid AIDS and other sexually
- transmitted diseases.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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