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...Parliament passed historic Law 4054 in 1924, social security was introduced to the Western Hemisphere (the first U.S. federal law was passed in 1935). Since then, Chile has fleshed out the sys! tern to the point where every money earner is entitled, bylaw, to cradle-to-grave insurance against childbirth costs, doctor bills, hospital bills, disability losses and funeral expenses. Manual laborers, furthermore, get old-age pensions up to full working...
Before the trip's survivors finally become mail-order brides in a scene of titillating comic hokum, they endure an exhaustive series of acts of God, man and MGM: storms, accidents, Indian attacks, childbirth, rape, dissension, the rigors of the Rockies and the heat of Death Valley. The passengers themselves are just as varied e.g., a French girl (Denise Dareel), who puts a respectable front on a disreputable past; a salty New Englander (Hope Emerson), who spouts seafaring lingo; a frail, pregnant schoolteacher (Beverly Dennis); a muleskinning crack shot (Lenore Lonergan); an Italian immigrant (Renata Vanni) with a nine...
...Pope's speech to midwives on the Roman Catholic code of morality in matters of sex and childbirth (TIME, Nov. 12) contained nothing essentially new. But one statement in it set off a blast of Protestant indignation in England. The sentence: "To save the mother's life is a very noble aim, but the direct killing of the baby as a means to that end is not lawful...
...many clergymen objected that Roman Catholic morality on this subject seemed to be no morality at all. At his diocesan conference, the Right Rev. Alfred E. Morris, Anglican Bishop of Monmouth, said that the choice should be made by the mother herself, "not in the agony of childbirth, but calmly and deliberately, as soon as pregnancy has been established ... A woman has an absolute right to say that, if her own life or that of her unborn child must be sacrificed, she chooses to die that the child may live...
...knows about ergot, but has rarely seen it in the form of an epidemic disease.* It is a black fungus that grows on wet grain, contains chemicals that powerfully affect the blood vessels and the nervous system. Doctors often use ergot extracts to start contractions in the uterus in childbirth...