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...them are dangerous, she says without reservation. Already they are everywhere: in soil, rivers, ground water, even in the bodies of living animals and humans. "They occur in mother's milk." she says, using emotion-fanning words, "and probably in the tissues of the unborn child." And worse is to come. "This birth-to-death contact," she warns, "contributes to the progressive buildup of chemicals in our bodies and so to cumulative poisoning. We are in little better position than the guests of the Borgias...
...hemisphere than Guatemala could ever have been. It is often argued that the Monroe Doctrine, the product of a simpler time, applies only to old-fashioned aggression. But in his wisdom, Monroe spoke for generations unborn and perils unenvisioned. What he declared to be dangerous to the U.S.'s peace and safety was "any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere . . . interposition in any form." That unmistakably applies to Cuba...
...mother who had German measles during the first trimester of her pregnancy, I sympathize with the agony that Mrs. Finkbine is now experiencing. However, no end, however good it appears, can justify evil means. And killing a living being, be it still unborn, is an evil means. Abortion is murder. My child is normal and healthy despite the statistics she fought. Mrs. Finkbine's may also be normal...
While she waited, Dr. Kelsey chanced on a British report that thalidomide might cause a tingling neuritis in some patients. From World War II work on antimalarial drugs, she suspected that this minor effect on adults might signal a more serious effect on the unborn. But not until nearly ten months later, in the last days of November 1961, did German reports link thalidomide with the European epidemic of seal-like, limbless babies...
...virus of German measles, or rubella, has been isolated and cultivated in test tubes, Government researchers at the National Institutes of Health announced last week. This long awaited discovery will make it possible to protect unborn babies against the malforming effects that the virus often produces when the mother becomes infected during the first three months of pregnancy...