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...with a young black woman improbably named Ursa Corregidora and plunks her down in a seedy Kentucky dive in the 1940s where she works as a blues singer. Enter Ursa's jealous husband, Mutt Thomas, who hurls the heroine down a staircase, injuring her so badly that her womb has to be removed. Twenty years pass. Ursa's second marriage fails. Her career takes her no higher than another dive across town. But love is a torch song. In the end the blues singer goes back to bad old Mutt...
...Doctors, clergymen and ethicists have never been able to agree on the point at which human life begins. Does it start at conception? When the fetus becomes capable of survival outside the womb? At the moment of birth? Dr. Dominick Purpura of New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine offers a new definition. He says that life starts when brain life begins, and he defines this point as some time between the 28th and 32nd week of pregnancy. Purpura bases his conclusion on 16 years of laboratory studies and more recent examinations of 30 premature and full-term...
...parents seem to be adjusting to the startling increase in the size of their family. But many of the multiple births that result from the use of fertility drugs turn out to be mixed blessings at best. The infants are usually born prematurely, and because of overcrowding within the womb are likely to suffer even more problems than most "preemies." The prospect of multiple births also puts a strain on pregnant women. They are usually dismayed when they first hear the news. In fact, many families feel that they are simply unprepared-physically, financially and emotionally-to cope with more...
Whether produced with the help of fertility drugs or naturally, premature babies always suffer from being expelled from the womb before they are ready. Figuring that preemies miss the security of the womb, Dr. Louis Gluck of San Diego's University Hospital has designed a tiny, heated water bed to simulate the warmth and buoyant pulsations of the baby's uterine environment. He also attached a tiny motor that provides motion similar to what the fetus experienced when the mother's heart beat and as she walked about. The preemie's sense of security is further...
Bizarre Scenario. Sissela Bok, a lecturer on medical ethics at Harvard and M.I.T. and wife of Harvard President Derek Bok, is concerned about the "brutalization" of scientists and of society unless most research is banned on fetuses that might be viable (that is, able to live outside the womb). At what point fetuses become viable is, of course, a subject under hot dispute. Federal guidelines proposed in 1971 limited experiments to fetuses less than 500 grams in weight (one fetus that weighed only 395 grams has survived outside the womb...