Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdated hodgepodge based on the once inescapable connection between coitus and conception. Any man and woman, he boldly argued, should be free to live together without even the slim ties of Judge Ben Lindsey's companionate marriage, to part at any time until the woman became pregnant. Even then their bond should not be indissoluble. But he counseled parents to resort to divorce only for the gravest of reasons. Simple adultery was not one of them...
...allegiance to Sorrel begins to waver. When Sorrel makes senile love to her, when the colony breaks up in mutual recrimination, Victoria in despair debauches herself with one man after another, but never with Antony. Antony leaves for the U. S. on business. Victoria discovers she is pregnant, makes herself ill by overdoses of pills. Fontana comes to find her, is taking her to a hospital for an abortion when they both see the headline announcing Antony's suicide...
...amniotic fluid is collected at the slaughter house from heavy western beef after government inspection of each animal. The uteri of cows two to five months pregnant, only, are selected. At this early period the amniotic fluid is especially pure and potent. The product is further purified and concentrated by an elaborate chemical process in one of the country's leading pharmaceutical houses. The end product, highly purified, is now used to prevent peritonitis in all cases of abdominal surgery...
...enticed the child to bed, raped her. Clapped into jail, John Brewer was last week convicted of this statutory offense, may spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. Nothing more might have been heard of this commonplace crime outside Denver, if its victim had not been left pregnant by John Brewer. The child's outraged mother took her daughter to Denver General Hospital, loudly pleaded for an abortion. That action raised questions of law, medical ethics and social customs which, by last week, had roused comment throughout the nation. Deputy Manager Bertram Barr Jaffa of Denver General...
...went into the record, and helped make the jury believe that Edwards must have been determined to escape his obligation to pregnant Freda McKechnie. On the night of July 30 he drove with her to Harvey's Lake. Although it was raining, they slipped into their bathing suits in the automobile and went for a swim. Freda did not return home. Edwards told police a half-dozen stories of accidental death and incriminating circumstances. The last version, which he gave firmly from the witness stand last week, was that Freda had slipped while stepping from the dock into a rowboat...