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Originally Posted by DAVES
As far as the effect on child bearing women, perhaps, you are thinking of Thalidomide? It is interesting that the female doctor who kept it illegal in the United States recently passed away. We did have several severely deformed babies born in the US the mother's took a drug that they got illegally.
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To clarify, the mothers did not obtain the drug illegally, it was prescribed to them by a physician. It was the pharmaceutical companies that distributed the medication to physicians for unauthorized "trials".
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