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“There are women out there--impoverished, uneducated, frequently...

“There are women out there--impoverished, uneducated, frequently drug-addicted, unmarried teen-agers--who we have to go out there and try to reach.”

--Dr. Irv Silberman, head of maternal health and family planning programs for Los Angeles County, as a nonprofit organization reported that more women here are not receiving adequate prenatal care and that an increasing number of babies statewide are being born sick or premature.

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