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Obstetricians had an explanation for the rare occurrence. An infant who begins to breathe in the womb is in danger of drowning in amniotic fluid. But when the fetal sac breaks and the fluid flows out, the unborn child can get a few lungsful of the air entering the womb through the birth passage. The rhythm of the laboring mother's contracting uterus acts as an artificial respirator...
...Price Is High." Wrote one angry rice merchant: "You little-devil-just -out -of -your -mother's -womb, how dare you try to catch a fly on the tiger's head! If the price of rice is high, why are we merchants to blame? Take care lest one of your ancestors was a rice worm-in which case you're cursing your own forefathers. Be reasonable or you may regret it. . . ." Undaunted, Little Happiness sang...
Next Step. Smiling happily at the success of this experiment, Dr. Hall proceeded to the next. Some of his brown mice, still untested, had unusual ancestry. They were descended from fertilized ova transplanted from a female brown mouse into the womb of a black one. All the "genes" in their cells were of brown-mouse origin. Only the nourishment materials which formed their infant bodies came from their foster mother...
...gene mutations induced by radioactivity may very easily destroy it." Destruction need not be immediate; mutated genes are insidious skulkers. They may lie in wait for centuries in the germ plasm, spreading by intermarriage through the population. Then, when they get their chance, they kill the child in the womb, or burden it with physical or mental defects...
Parliament had passed the National Health Service Bill, promising free, womb-to-tomb medical care for every Briton (TIME, April 1).* Now it was up to the doctors. Last week their answer came in: by a 23,110-to-18,972 vote, the British Medical Association said...