Gov . George W . Bush proposed Thursday a $ 400 million consumer tax cut, including repeal of the sales tax on nonprescription drugs, diapers and health aids, except birth control devices such as condoms.
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In " Griswold v . Connecticut, " a doctor and a birth control official who had distributed contraceptives were prosecuted under an aiding and abetting statute as accessories to the crime of using birth control devices.
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Gramm's remarks came shortly before copies of the proposed state GOP platform were distributed to delegates, who will vote Saturday on whether to urge a total ban on abortions and a prohibition against distributing birth control devices to minors.
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The new guidelines tell teachers to " avoid any discussion regarding how to use or apply the various forms of birth control, " and to " not use or supply samples of birth control devices or medicines in classroom instruction ."
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In recent years, other mass tort cases have involved such products as the Dalkon Shield birth control device, the Agent Orange chemical defoliant used in the Vietnam War, silicone breast implants, defective heart valves and, most recently, tobacco.
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Dr . Hugh Davis, the Johns Hopkins gynecologist whose acclaimed invention of the Dalkon Shield as a safer and more effective birth control device proved disastrous to thousands of American women, died on Wednesday at his home on Gibson Island, Md . He was 69.
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Her suspicions fell on Patricia Soria, a nurse who lived in the same neighborhood as Marita, in Las Talitas . " Marita wanted to get an IUD ( a birth control device ) and she insisted that Marita go to Maternidad ( the maternity center ).
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In the early years of the tort explosion, plaintiffs and their lawyers won large verdicts by proving that manufacturers sold products they knew or should have known were unsafe : cars that burst into flames; birth control devices that left women sterile; asbestos that caused cancer.
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In the late 1980s, their activities included distribution of free birth control devices and information, classes for women on family planning methods, and the granting of special subsidies and privileges ( such as low-interest housing loans ) to parents who agreed to undergo sterilization.
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A bankruptcy filing would follow the lead set by Johns-Manville Corp . in the early 1980s to deal with mass asbestos claims and A . H . Robins Inc ., when it became overwhelmed by lawsuits related to the Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine birth control device.
