Word: motherhood
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...wife of a southern Oregon timber worker, finally took her to a local doctor. He suggested that the baby go to the Doernbecher Memorial Hospital which the State of Oregon maintains in Portland as an adjunct of the University of Oregon medical school. There the blonde little caricature of motherhood underwent an X-ray examination a fortnight ago. This revealed to the dumbfounded staff of the hospital that Barbara Stobie was indeed carrying a child. Plainly visible were part of its bony skull, spine, arms, legs...
...member of a profession which throughout the ages has held sacred motherhood with all of its implications I feel I must record my indignation and disgust at the language your special writer used in describing this case...
...hospital. Finally Representative Dunn got her a permit to go to a hospital. The Mississippi Congressman continued: "She was told to go back home and there to repose herself as best she could until she came to that particular period in her life which every woman who knows motherhood must face, and then to come back...
Thereupon Dr. Pincus proceeded to perform other genetic tricks which, when he reported them to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Washington last week, stirred the Press to front-page speculation as to the imminence of immaculate conceptions and substitute motherhood in humans...
Wrote John Joseph O'Neill of the New York Herald Tribune: ''One of the earliest applications of the discovery is expected to make motherhood possible to women who are handicapped by some dysfunction of the physiological processes and are unable to go through a full period of pregnancy. It will also be a godsend to those women who desire children but do not wish to bear them for the full period of gestation...