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...Penal Codes permitted the operation only if the health of the mother or child was threatened, or in a case of rape or incest. Abortions were rewarded to women who were either ill or rich. Hospitals awarded abortions to those women with diseases that could harm development of the fetus, almost as if in compensation for their illness. Alternatively, women with time and money could fly to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico or other vacation spots that performed relatively safe operations...
...sharpeners and potholders. Although the book has sold 765,000 copies in the U.S., the mood is too indigo for some ailurophiles. Says A.S.P.C.A.'S John Kullberg: "Coming upon the book is akin to being a member of the Moral Majority and seeing 101 Uses for a Dead Fetus. Bond, who has been a loving cat owner, although he is allergic to the animal, retorts, "Good comedy will always upset somebody. If I'd written 101 Uses for a Dead Aardvark, I bet no one would have complained...
...professor of Medicine and author of the book "Situation Ethics: The New Morality," said the abortion issue is an ethical determination of when "personhood" begins. "Everyone agrees that life begins at conception--but the issue is when should we assign the rights and status of a person to the fetus," he said...
...strikes. It appears most frequently among white middle-and upper-class men. Two groups run 40 times the normal risk of developing the disease: men with a testicle that failed to descend from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum, a lapse that normally occurs during development of the fetus; and men with a testicle that descended only after they were six years old. Preliminary studies suggest that undescended testicles may be more frequent in boys born to women who received the hormone diethylstilbestrol, or DES, during pregnancy. The hormone was widely prescribed in the 1940s and 1950s to help prevent...
...these were transferred into four Holstein cows, selected in part because their calves are larger than gaur calves. Though the reproductive cycles of all five animals had been synchronized with drugs, one cow did not accept the embryo. Another aborted after five months. The third delivered a dead fetus at 9½ months. But two weeks later, Flossie produced a normal gaur calf of about 70 Ibs. (A normal Holstein calf would weigh up to 90 Ibs.) Zoo officials, who hope that it will be only the first of a number of gaurs that Flossie may bear, promptly named...