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...knew it was none of these, no simple influence. It was less a question of poetry than of a way of looking at things, of being tender, direct and sympathetic, of being able to lose yourself, to become and feel the way a bear, a porcupine or an unborn baby must...
...have been going for 4½ years in Britain. By the way, you can read us on the L.I.R.R. too. We have lots of meaningful stories by meaningful writers. Why, our inaugural September issue carried a piece that McCall's might have run: "Sex and the Unborn Child."-Penthouse...
...warned of their 25% risk of producing a Tay-Sachs child and perhaps be discouraged from having children of their own. By inserting a needle through a woman's abdomen when she is 16 weeks pregnant and extracting fluid from the amniotic sac, doctors can determine if the unborn child will have Tay-Sachs disease. Cells shed by the developing fetus into the fluid will be analyzed for traces of HexA. If the enzyme is missing, doctors could advise an abortion that would save the parents from the heartbreak of having a doomed, Tay-Sachs child...
...taking a tranquilizer during her pregnancy nine years ago. So was Richard's mother, a year later. For both, the drug was prescribed under its British trade name, Distaval, one of the innumerable synonyms for thalidomide.* By whatever name, thalidomide had tragic effects on thousands of the unborn. David was born with neither arms nor legs. Richard has legs but no arms and only a single digit projecting from his right shoulder...
...that have crippled or slaughtered children through the ages are yielding to preventive vaccines - first smallpox, then diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, and most recently, measles. Last week the U.S. Government approved a vaccine that will benefit no child already born, but is expected to save hundreds of thousands of unborn infants from death or dis abling malformations in the womb. It is a vaccine to protect against German measles, folk-named "three-day measles" and technically rubella. The first ship ments were on their way to doctors with in hours of the licensing announcement...