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Allowing for all these factors, John Constable, HAC team member, was able to interpret birth statistics from Tay Ninh Provincial Hospital. This hospital serves a heavily defoliated province, and "showed an average stillbirth rate in 1968 and 1969 of 68 per 1000 live births. During this same time, the Tu Do [in Saigon] rate was 27.5 per 1000 and that of the Army sample of the entire country...
...baby. But if the baby is Rh-positive, there is a progressively increasing chance of trouble in later pregnancies. In such cases, the Rh-negative mother develops an immunity to future Rh-positive babies and may send enough damaging antibodies into the developing child's bloodstream to cause stillbirth, brain damage or a miscarriage. Rh disease kills 10,000 babies in the U.S. each year. Until recently, the only treatment was to replace virtually the entire blood supply of the fetus with a massive transfusion in the womb...
Each year, at least 200,000 U.S. men with blood classified as Rh-positive marry women whose blood is Rh-negative. The mismatch poses no threat to the first child, but with the second there is an almost certain chance of miscarriage, stillbirth or brain damage. The only remedy with promise has been a transfusion, replacing the child's entire blood supply in the womb...
...unsuspected dangers in connection with many drugs. It now appears that not only LSD, but also other, more familiar drugs may damage the human reproductive mechanism by causing breaks or other abnormalities in the chromosomes. A woman with such chromosomal dam age may have a spontaneous abortion or a stillbirth, or her child may be deformed, or develop a fatal anemia...
...tell poor or ignorant young women about birth control is just after they have had a baby. Not only in India, but also in U.S. low-income strata, 10% of women become pregnant again within seven months after a live birth, and 20% within a year. After a stillbirth or abortion, with no nursing to reduce fertility, the interval can drop to as little as three months...