Word: womb
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...applause and cheers. Miners hugged one another. Some medical experts felt that the excess fat and surplus water in the tissues of the newborn had helped them to survive for such an extended period. They also assumed that the infants, having so recently emerged from the darkness of the womb, were less subject than older children or adults to the stress of being buried alive...
...childbirth. A baby can be infected with AIDS in the womb or during birth, probably from the mother's blood. The number of cases so far is very small, about 130 (some 180 children in the U.S. have the disease), but unhappily it is likely to increase. More parents are sure to be exposed to the virus, and a possibly large percentage, who for some unknown reason never develop symptoms, can unwittingly pass the virus to their children. (Both women and men who are not victims of AIDS can be carriers...
ABORTION. The Supreme Court's 1973 legalization of this procedure is perhaps the single most important cause now energizing conservative churches. Fundamentalists and large numbers of Evangelicals base their opposition on millenniums of Jewish and Christian teaching, according to which life in the womb is to be protected, except for severe threats to the mother. (Religious traditions differ on precisely what justifies abortion.) The issue is highly divisive. According to a Gallup poll last October, 50% of Americans think abortion should be outlawed with exceptions only for rape, incest or danger to the mother's life, a view that Falwell...
...which agreed to pay royalties on future sales and $750,000 in cash. Like other intrauterine devices, the Dalkon Shield was designed to be inserted inside the uterus, where it usually prevented pregnancy by making it difficult for a fertilized egg to attach itself to the wall of the womb. Beginning in 1971 Robins sold 4.5 million Dalkon Shields around the world, including 2.8 million...
Patti Frustaci, a high school English teacher, added 70 lbs. to her 115-lb. frame while carrying the septuplets. Surprised by her large size early in her pregnancy, doctors scheduled an ultrasound examination that detected three fetuses. A later sonogram revealed seven babies in her womb. The Frustacis were dazed. Recalled Sam: "I said to Patti, 'Dogs have litters...