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Deaths from abortion occur most often because of infection, which is usually avoidable if doctors prescribe penicillin. In the pre-Roe v. Wade era, the number of mothers' deaths from abortion decreased for 30 years because of the advent of penicillin's use. It did not decrease, as pro-choicers argue, because of the availability of legal abortion. There is nothing inherently safer about a legal abortion. If there were, pro-abortion women who wish abortions to continue if Roe is reversed would not now be learning how to perform abortions...
...third major contribution to the study of enzymes looked at the resistance of bacteria to penicillin. Bacteria develop a resistance to penicillin by producing an enzyme that makes the antibiotic harmless...
Knowles and his researchers examined the mechanism of how the enzyme blocks penicillin and helped develop a drug to prevent the enzyme from functioning...
Usually, the added cost of a new drug is justified by an obvious benefit. Second- and third-generation antibiotics, for instance, can work when older, cheaper antibiotics like penicillin fail. In other cases, a costly new drug may break new ground, as AZT did in treating AIDS...
Folkman likens the recent clinical success in combatting cancer to the nearly hopeless battle against pneumonia in the early years of this century, when the sometimes successful sulfa drug and later penicillin were introduced. Scientists then had little theoretical knowledge of pneumonia, but were nonetheless happy to have some kind of treatment, however flawed...