Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pregnant Women Deserve Credit
...third from 1951-and close to one-third of adult women are full-time members of the work force. Says Michigan Democratic Representative Martha Griffiths: "The idea that wives of childbearing age are unreliable borrowers is a myth. Most women have control over whether they will become pregnant...
That autumn in Chicago, where she was performing in a play, he proposed to her. She turned him down. Years later, apparently, she told him that when she rejected him she had just learned she was pregnant by another man. "I often wonder," Maugham is reported to have told a friend, "what course my life would have taken had it not been for that... freakish circumstance...
...possible death because the mother's blood cells tend to destroy antibodies in the baby's blood. Using amniocentesis, the extent to which this is taking place can be determined, and if necessary, transfusions can be given to the baby. This use of amniocentesis is fairly common--thousands of pregnant women with potential Rh-incompatability are tested every year, and the necessary transfusions are performed...
...EXAMPLE, it is well known now that female cells have two X chromosomes on the last pair. Male cells have one X and one Y. Given this information, the pregnant mother of four female children could have amniocentesis performed to determine the fetus's sex. Knowing the sex of the child in advance, the parents could decide whether or not to abort. In this way, families could maintain a balanced--or an unbalanced--male-female ratio...