Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet medical care is wide ranging and well organized. The system revolves around polyclinics that serve neighborhoods, factories or professional groups; 80% of all treatment is handled on an outpatient basis. A key service: free annual checkups for about 100 million Soviet citizens, most of them children, students, pregnant women and workers in vital jobs. Health officials hope to expand the checkups to cover all 242 million citizens of the U.S.S.R...
...fathers a child by himself. "All You Zombies," one of his very early tales, tells of a young woman (a foundling discovered on the steps of an orphanage) who joins the Time Patrol, a group which regulates the clandestine commerce between time periods. While on a mission, she becomes pregnant by a fast-talking man whom she never sees again. When she gives birth, the baby is kidnapped and never found. She then becomes disgusted with being a woman and undergoes radical surgery to become a man. Years later, while on a mission to the same time period, she/he seduces...
Though doctors were delighted when rubella (German measles) vaccines were licensed 15 months ago, many asked a troubling question: Could a recently vaccinated child spread the highly contagious rubella virus to a pregnant woman? If so, the risk of damage or even death to her unborn child might be as great as that from exposure to the actual disease...
...winter, when there would be little or no natural rubella in the community. Before vaccinating the children, he tested their mothers' blood, found 62 women susceptible to rubella. To their children he gave only inert, placebo injections, rather than risk indirectly infecting a vulnerable woman who might be pregnant without yet knowing...
...woman who happens to get pregnant, in the absence of decent abortion laws, or adequate child care facilities, she is faced with two possibilities: raising the child herself and working at the same time, or turning to dependency...