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22. There is a powerful PBS series on now called "Call The Midwife" that dealt with that subject in

a recent episode. It was set in London about 196o-61 just as the first cases were being seen. The families, the mothers, were absolutely devastated, by the deformed babies, and then doubly horrified that the drug they'd been prescribed by their friendly family doctor had apparently caused the birth defects.

Our family had gone to live in Germany while my father worked extensively with those families in Britain and throughout Europe, a few years later. The parents of Thalidomide children were just at the point of deciding whether to institutionalize them or "mainstream" their now school-age kids. (He advocated strongly for the latter, since it had worked out well for him)

Additionally, few people know that the specter of the health emergency that thalidomide, and soon rubella, presented to American women and their families led to the public outcry for abortion rights that culminated in Row vs Wade.