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...life begins at the moment a child stirs in the womb. At that moment the child becomes an individual with all the rights of a fullborn infant. This has been the ruling decision in many cases. Unborn children have established their rights to legacies, have had guardians appointed and have instituted suits at law. In this case, however, it is the first time that the right to life has ever been presented to a court. In all the other cases life has been taken for granted, and property has been the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor's Dilemma | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...this microbe gangster then sneaks back out of his hiding? So that a husband, having long ago forgotten a past indiscretion, may then infect his wife. So that a mother, unaware that death has ever lurked within her, may pass it to the babe growing in her womb." Constructively, the Ladies' Home Journal backed up the article by editorially endorsing a Wassermann test for every pregnant woman and as a routine premarital requirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies & Syphilis | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...become the pet of the nurses and doctors. She had been with us six months. . . . She continued to regress until she assumed the foetal posture, breathing gently being her only movement. At this time she was sent to a State hospital where soon she was gathered into the womb of her mother earth to which we all regress soon or late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Regressive Lady | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...take or have taken advantage of the resources which Medicine has so far marshaled against the nation's second most common cause of death. About six women get cancer to every five men. The most prevalent forms of cancer in women, however, are cancer of the breast and womb, which are the most curable. To bring this message of warning and hope to the 45,000,000 U. S. women was this week the purpose of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's "Women's Army" of 2,000,000 women operate in 39 States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Army | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...psychological reasons that she continue life as a female despite her male glands. A case history reported by Dr. Emil Novak, Johns Hopkins gynecologist: A college girl of 19, considered normal in childhood, had grown tall (6 ft. i in.), angular, flat-chested, hairy, deep-voiced. Examination revealed no womb, a rudimentary vagina, an overdeveloped clitoris, male gonads. Dr. Novak saw at once that it was impossible to adapt the clitoris for male activity. Moreover, the patient had a strong, deep-rooted feminine psychology to upset which he thought would be disastrous. Therefore he removed the testes and the clitoris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Change of Sex | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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