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...harbor inheritable defects. At Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Dr. Henry L. Nadler reported, his department has "managed" 150 pregnancies on the basis of such cell studies. In 14 cases, abortion was recommended, and in 13 cases the abortion was carried out. In the 14th, the mother of one mongoloid child said she would rather have another mongol than an abortion-and she did. In the other 136 cases, no abortion was recommended, and all the babies born were normal. This procedure, Nadler emphasized, neither encourages abortions nor increases their incidence. What it does is enable couples capable...
Risks of Age. More and more defects, especially those resulting from lack of an enzyme, are now being detected. In most cases, the only "remedy" is abortion. But sometimes it may be possible to contain an enzyme deficiency by altering the mother's diet. If the embryo is developing unnaturally because of faulty nutrition, it even may be possible to inject nutrients into the amniotic fluid, which the fetus absorbs...
...woman's ova, unlike her husband's sperm, are not manufactured continuously so that they are always fresh, but are laid down in a sort of pre-egg form while she is still in her mother's womb, or shortly after birth. This explains why the mother's health, at conception and during pregnancy, may be important a generation later. Therefore, West Germany's Dr. Widukind Lenz concluded, "the present trend toward earlier sexual maturity, earlier marriage and earlier reproduction is biologically favorable...
Beautiful Evening. Capitalist Bill Graham was born in 1931 to Russian parents who had moved to Berlin only a few years before. Two days after his birth, his father was killed in an accident. In order to be free to work, his mother eventually placed Wolfgang and his younger sister in an orphanage. The two were transferred to France on a student-exchange program and then stranded there when World War II broke out. After the Germans invaded, the Grajonca children were rounded up by a Red Cross worker for a march to Marseilles; the girl died of malnutrition...
...when it was still in force. To replace the statute, California passed more liberal legislation that permits hospitals to perform abortions on girls under 15, in cases of rape and incest, or when having a baby may seriously harm the-phys-ical or mental health of the mother. The California decision-the first of its kind by a major state court-now casts constitutional doubt on rigid abortion laws in no fewer than 41 other states. Also, by emphasizing that a woman has a right to decide whether or not she wants a child, it may have given California hospital...