Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lower urinary tract is obstructed, the urine accumulates in the kidneys and bladder, which then begin to balloon, crowding the fetus' developing lungs and damaging the kidneys. In the Skinner case, doctors chose a new and promising method of treatment: surgery with the fetus still in the womb...
...promise, fetal surgery poses some difficult ethical dilemmas. Says Roy Filly, an ultrasound specialist who works with Harrison: "Even if the mother wants to have the baby, what do you do if you open up the womb and find the problem is much worse than you feared? Do you save the baby, even though it may be severely handicapped and require extensive lifelong medical care?" Fetal surgery also touches directly on the question of when life begins, a central issue in the debate over abortion. Says Dr. Leonie Watson, a pro-life advocate in San Francisco: "If they...
Last week there was also encouraging news about helping babies with genetic disorders-while they are still in the womb. The success, described by doctors at the University of California in San Francisco, was in a tiny patient with a rare inherited disease called biotin dependency. Biotin, a B vitamin, is necessary for certain metabolic processes. In people with the disease, the body's use of biotin is somehow disrupted. Symptoms include hair loss, lethargy, coma and susceptibility to infection. The only treatment is daily doses of the vitamin...
...Payments by a death in the family, in Women by open rebellion. Felicitas, like Isabel, recognizes her lost youth and feels misplaced and uncomfortable in a world she is unfamiliar with. Both strike out, have unsuccessful but sexually educational affairs, and finally, both move back toward the spiritual womb...
...five in the morning, a newsroom of rubble, an endless metronome of wire-machine clattering to no one, a sea of crumpled paper and broken typewriters, a resting place for tradition that stares down from the peeling yellowed walls, womb of a thousand dreams and careers and distortions and corrections and insights, a repository for the mediocre and the brilliant and the misfired and the passing-through and the incorrectly pasted up, O Crimson, you are a line on a resume and a way of life...