Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Boston Globe Boob Job

You are beautiful just the way you are, ladies:

"France considers risk of faulty implants" December 22, 2011|By Angela Charlton

PARIS — Emmanuelle Maria’s breasts were burning and globules of silicone gel were protruding into her armpits. Her implants had exploded inside her. Yet her doctors, she says, told her nothing was wrong.

Now she wants the French government to tell 30,000 women to get their implants removed — at the state’s expense — to call attention to their risks and save others from potential pain and indignity.

Prompted by calls from implant wearers and leading doctors, French health authorities are considering a drastic and unprecedented move: recommending mass surgery to rid the country of a type of breast implant that investigators say was secretly made with cheap industrial silicone whose medical dangers remain unclear.

Governments around Europe are hanging on France’s decision tomorrow. Tens of thousands more women in Britain, Italy, Spain, and other European nations are walking around with the same prefilled implants, made by the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese....

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This is the same nation that has such a problem with the veil?