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Patricia Cunningham, wife of a New Jersey engineer, was joyously pregnant for the first time in eight years of marriage. Late last year, early in her sixth month, she began to have labor contractions. Since a baby delivered that prematurely would have no chance of survival, Obstetrician Arthur Perell took immediate steps to stop the contractions. But not by surgery to close the womb, a technique sometimes used. Instead, Dr. Perell got Mrs. Cunningham a bit tipsy, and kept her that way until the contractions stopped...
Risks and Rejections. Legality aside, most of the discussion concerned abortion as a means of ex post facto birth control. "The 'disease' of an unwanted pregnancy is usually not fatal," said Obstetrician Kenneth J. Ryan of Case-Western Reserve University School of Medicine, "but living with it is so onerous that many women risk death via criminal abortion rather than suffer its far-reaching effects." How many? No one knew. "Estimates" running from 200,000 to 1,500,000 a year in the U.S. are worthless guesses, said the Population Council's Dr. Christopher Tietze. He also...
...Francisco General Hospital reports "some cases" of malformation among babies of LSD-using mothers, but Chief Obstetrician R. Elgin Orcutt feels that he lacks enough data to show a cause-and-effect relationship. U.C.L.A.'s Dr. William McGlothlin agrees. "I know of some miscarriages among LSD users," he says, "but I don't know if the rate is higher than among other people." Dr. McGlothlin, who works with hippies, has a federal grant to help him get more data...
...their astonishment, Northern doctors have lately discovered that eating laundry starch is all the rage among Negro women-especially pregnant women-in many Northern-city slums. At D.C. General Hospital, Chief Obstetrician Dr. Earnest Lowe estimates that up to one-fourth of his patients are starch addicts. At Los Angeles County Hospital, three or four patients a week are diagnosed as having anemia apparently caused by starch binges...
...real fun begins after Rosemary becomes pregnant. She firmly convinces herself that her neighbors are a coven of witches, that even her obstetrician is in league with them, and that they are casting their designs upon her baby-to-be for their own diabolical purposes. The plot hinges on whether Rosemary's fear is real or a fantasy twist brought on by her turning from the faith...