Word: childbirth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth control is based on the secular notion that society "must forever banish from the face of the earth hunger, misfortune, juvenile crime, social revolution and wars-since all these are a consequence of overpopulation." Said the archbishop: "This argument may be correct, but it is entirely negative." Childbirth, he added, is a "duty binding on all-not to avoid children, but to care for them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord...
...thousand yards from the company building in White Plains, N.Y., dubbed it "Done Commuting." He is devoted to his family, seldom brings his briefcase home or does business entertaining there. He and his wife Elizabeth (everybody calls her "Jerry") were married 32 years ago (his first wife died in childbirth), have a married daughter Mary and three sons: Charles Greenough, 33, and John, 30, both married and working in advertising, and Lee, 19, a sophomore at Denison University...
Time for Action. Orde Wingate came into the world violently (his mother was near to death in childbirth), lived violently, died violently. He had an intense feeling of mission, and believed he was fated "to lead a country" to glory; sometimes he would add harshly, "Any country would do." His first choice was Palestine. Posted to the Holy Land in 1936 as a British intelligence officer, he flung himself with typical passion into the Zionist cause. The Jews, knowing that Wingate was born into an evangelical Protestant sect (the Plymouth Brethren) and was a distant relative of the famed Lawrence...
...dangers of pregnancy for women over 40 have been greatly exaggerated, says Obstetrician Albert L. Higdon of Teaneck, N.J. Before a Canadian meeting of obstetricians and gynecologists, he reported that studies of 21,000 mothers indicate that childbirth presents only slightly greater risks to a woman of 40 than to one of 20. The older women bore only a slightly higher percentage of Mongoloid children, suffered no more difficult deliveries, had an average mortality rate...
...Buddhism, with its strong emphasis on harming no living creature. Some medical men attribute the lack of aggressiveness among Laotians to disease rather than Buddhism or innate gentleness. Malaria, yaws, gonorrhea and kwashiorkor (an often fatal protein deficiency) are common; an estimated 50% of Laotian children die in childbirth or infancy. But to all disasters of body or soul, pious Laotians murmur in the words of one of their poets: "For our sins committed in an other world we are in these days suffer ing grievous punishment...