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YEAR: 1973

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Disabled children - Free contraception to all? - More liberal liquor laws?

AUTHORS

Lister J

SOURCE

New England Journal of Medicine 288(8): 406-408. February 22,1973.

ABSTRACT

The history of thalidomide has risen many moral issues which have come to the foreground once more. Presently

they are being debated in the British Parliament. No satisfactory financial arangement has been made for the

children who have been born defective because their mothers had taken thalidomide during pregnancy. The

Secreatary of State for the Department of Health and Social Security asserted that there is no legal liability on the

part of the government and no implication about a drug since it had been prescribed under the National Health

Service. The government, however, decided to make 3 million pounds available for defective children be it a result of

thalidomide or some other drug. The special case of the thalidomide children remains the same however. Not only

is the cause different in the case of these children, but also there is a greater stress on the mother because of guilt

feelings. The above normal intelligence of the children themselves is another factor that make their case unique.

This article also includes comments on 2 other areas. 1 is the fact that family planning advice will be free to all

patients when the National Health Service is reorganized in 1974. The Times, in an article, put forth the view that

free contraception for all is a good idea. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT8T 542-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Disabled children - Free contraception to all? - More liberal

liquor laws?", is(are) Lister J. The source of this article is "New England Journal of Medicine 288(8): 406-408.

February 22,1973.". This article was published in 1973 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT8T 542-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 35542

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