Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dormant for decades. This would go far to explain why some cancers, though not hereditary in the ordinary sense, tend to run in families. Or they may come from virus infections of the mother during pregnancy: if they cross the placental barrier, they could lodge in the fetus, which has little or no antibody-forming mechanism to reject them...
...grow in tissue cultures. Since the illness in children is so mild, the raw virus could probably be used to infect girls before puberty; the danger is that if they escape childhood infection, exposure during the first three months of pregnancy may cause crippling or fatal damage to the fetus...
...choriocarcinoma, a rare cancer that attacks the sac surrounding the developing fetus in pregnant women, methotrexate has "in many cases" brought about absolute cures...
Christians were against abortion from the beginning, holding that the fetus is not part of the mother but a person in its own right, and they also opposed contraception. St. Hippolytus in the 3rd century criticized Pope St. Callistus for his leniency in granting absolution to ''women, reputed believers, who began to resort to drugs for producing sterility, and to gird themselves round, so as to expel what was being conceived...
...were etched nearer the center of their palms twice as often as those who had developed heart disease later. The pattern also tended to be more disorganized in the hands of congenital heart patients-a possible result of the same mysterious mechanisms that cause abnormalities to develop in the fetus...