Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pitchford's story is sad and scarcely unfamiliar. She and her boyfriend, Dwight Mundy, 26, both students at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, were talking about getting married. But Pitchford was afraid to tell Mundy she was pregnant. When she did he told her he did not want the child. On June 8 they traveled to Louisville to find a clinic that would perform an abortion. None would handle a pregnancy beyond 18 weeks. In the bathroom of their hotel room, Pitchford inserted a six-inch knitting needle into her uterus. "I just wasn't thinking rationally...
...Mary Drumm, 32, of Erie, Pa., and her husband are self-confessed "baby freaks." Though they have two children of their own and have adopted three others, they wanted still more. But Mary has had three miscarriages, possibly because of blood disorders. So when she became pregnant again, she decided that "we're not just going to sit back and lose another baby." Now, she has given birth to a 7-lb. girl at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. While the baby may still need an exchange transfusion, mother and daughter should be discharged shortly...
...When Shirley Aranda, 34, of Phoenix, lost her first child shortly after birth, doctors found she had a congenital uterine problem. In the past, they might have dissuaded her from becoming pregnant again. Instead they performed corrective surgery and encouraged her to try once more. Twice she gave birth-once to a baby weighing only 1 Ib. 13 oz. Both infants survived and are now, at ages 5 and 2½, healthy, normal youngsters...
...recovered, and delayed-action cases that continue to occur have been responding to medication. Fear of other aftereffects, however, has infected the people psychologically. Medical researchers are concerned that the dioxin could have serious future effects on the livers of those exposed to it. Soon after the explosion, 33 pregnant women underwent therapeutic abortions for fear of malformed births. Since then the birth rate in Seveso has dropped sharply. Building Contractor Ugo Basilico, 41, father of a six-year-old son, explains the sad reason why: "I thought it was about time we had another child, but the doctor says...
...backyards and cellars. Last week their worst fears proved well founded. After a long investigation New York Health Commissioner Robert Whalen described the waste disposal site as "an extremely serious threat and danger to the health and safety of those living near it." He also recommended that all pregnant women and children under two leave the area at once...