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...holding on to the table," she recalled. "It was worse than having a baby." It was also emotionally unsettling. One nurse in Kings County Hospital made a point of telling her "what a pretty little boy" had just been aborted, though Valada had asked not to be told the fetus' sex. Mothers in the maternity ward, where she was sent to recover, treated her like a pariah. 'They would just look at me." said Valada. "and the looks could tell me what they were thinking...
...several recent scientific discoveries in the field of molecular biology. One was the identification of the enzyme hexosaminidase-A, the lack of which causes Tay-Sachs disease. Another was the development of a technique for taking cells from the amniotic fluid, the clear, amber liquid in which the developing fetus floats, and analyzing the cells for the presence-or absence-of the essential enzyme. The most important step, however, was perfecting a simple blood test to identify adults who carry the defective gene but are themselves unaffected...
...nurse is trained to do all in her power to save a premature infant, no matter how defective or fragile it may be. When a fetus is aborted, however, a nurse is required to discard it-no matter how well-formed and active it appears. This paradox has already caused acute emotional problems-anxiety, insomnia and depression-among nurses in Hawaii, which a year ago became the first state to legalize abortion on request. At a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatrists Walter Char and John McDermott of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine reported that nurses...
...genes. But even so complex a trait as intelligence may eventually come under the control of molecular biologists. Some scientists fantasize that super-geniuses will some day be produced by increasing brain size, through either genetic manipulation or through transplantation of brain cells to newborn infants or to the fetus in the womb. (Such cells might be synthesized in the laboratory or developed by taking bits of easily accessible tissue from a contemporary Newton or Mozart and inducing them to turn into brain neurons...
...current example illustrates the problem. Amniocentesis can now quite accurately predict whether a fetus is mongoloid; women carrying such abnormal fetuses are now encouraged, where it is legal, to have abortions. Already a number of medical planners are pointing up the cost-effectiveness of abortion in those cases. Unless the birth rate of mongoloid children is reduced, their care by 1975 may well cost some $1.75 billion nationally...