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...normal enough for prospective parents to wonder about the sex of their unborn child. When their doctor shares their curiosity, though, he may well fear the presence of some sex-linked hereditary disease such as hemophilia, or certain disorders accompanied by mental retardation...
Family planning by contraception was the cause. Margaret Sanger was its champion. Half a century ago, when she raised the banners of her lonely crusade, she was lacerated from the pulpits as a "lascivious monster" bent on "murdering" unborn children. Birth control, a phrase she herself invented, was unmentionable, immoral and illegal. It was a federal crime merely to send information about it through the mails. She was arrested eight times. Her zeal led to the breakup of her first marriage. Yet when she died last week of arteriosclerosis in Tucson at the age of 82, her vision had been...
...true that the script struggles loyally to endow Alfie with humor and humanity. After the friend's wife undergoes an abortion-a scene that takes place off-camera but was only with reluctance approved by the Valenti office-Alfie stares in horror at the unseen fetus of his unborn son. The audience is clearly expected to conclude that Alfie is sensitive, after all, because he doesn't like to see a fetus on his kitchen table...
Rogallo made minor modifications in his dust detector, the biologists supplied the egg, and the unborn chick's heartbeat registered strongly through its unbroken shell. As proof, Rogallo exhibited the live and healthy chick of a bobwhite quail whose incubation had been monitored but undisturbed. And, said Dr. Hartwig proudly, the Food and Drug Administration is completing the space-to-chick-to-man cycle: it is using Rogallo's sensor to study the effects of drugs on the heart...
After a study of 48,505 pregnant wives, half of whom were smokers, Lieut. Commander Paul B. Underwood and his colleagues told the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, their collected data provide no proof that smoking by a mother harms her unborn child, and in one way it appears to help...