Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother of three, worked for four years to isolate from the red cells of Rh-positive blood some substance that distinguishes it from Rh-negative blood. At last she got a "lipid" (fat-like compound) which she believes to be a "hapten" (a neutralizer of antibodies). Injected into a pregnant woman whose Rh-negative blood has formed antibodies against the incompatible blood of her unborn Rh-positive baby, hapten protects the baby's blood, and allows him to be born in normal health. Injected into a living but erythroblastic baby, it quickly restores the baby's blood...
...your story about Dr. Gisella Perl, who aborted women prisoners in Nazi camps to save them from the gas chambers [TIME, Sept. 20], you omitted [a point] of great importance. Many of these women became pregnant because they were raped by the prison guards, who then had to conceal their violation of their own "racial purity" laws by killing the defenseless women. It is easy for shocked moralists, safe in this country, to condemn Dr. Perl. One wonders how nobly moral they would be if their own wives & daughters were in a similar situation...
During his speech, Ayer said, "Having a 'few' Communists in the governement or in citizen groups is like being 'a little bit' pregnant - there's no such thing...
...Perl was an abortionist. But she plied her terrible trade out of mercy. She has explained: "It was the policy of the Nazis to immediately put to death all Jewish, Polish, Russian and French women who were pregnant, in the gas chambers, and in the crematorium. I aborted them to save their lives." Last winter Congress passed a special bill granting Dr. Perl permanent residence in the U.S., on the urging of Representative Sol Bloom, who praised her "simple humanity" in saving "the lives of more than 3,000 women...
...hands of most current novelists, the commonplace and slight story of Nora's indiscretion, Austin's kindly rejection of her advances, and the effects these events have on Austin's wife, pregnant with her second baby, would be something to read in a hammock and forget by dinnertime. Maxwell has made it something more...