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Soon, however, David and Harriet are forced to deal with the the realities of the dream. Harriet becomes pregnant again, this time with Ben, a monstrous child who takes over the household and infects the entire family with the stigma of abnormality...
LESSING is a canny observer of the role of Woman in society. As in her last novel The Good Terrorist, the female protagonist in The Fifth Child is unaware of her subjugated state. Harriet is the caretaker of the family. She is constantly pregnant, constantly trying to run the household and organize the endless stream of guests that come to stay in the spacious suburban paradise. She is sometimes "pale and strained because of morning sickness and because she had spent a week scrubbing floors and washing windows...
...people lined up outside Houston's Immigration and Naturalization Service office had camped overnight with blankets and lawn chairs. At the Dallas INS office, a pregnant Hispanic woman stepped out of line into a bathroom and went into labor. Throughout the U.S. last month, 200,000 aliens rushed to apply for legal status before a yearlong amnesty program expires on May 4. To qualify, they must prove they were residing in the U.S. before...
Since it came onto the market nearly six years ago, the acne drug Accutane has carried stark warnings that it causes birth defects: pregnant women must not take it, and other women must use birth control while on it. The warnings, it seems, have not been enough. Some researchers at the Food and Drug Administration fear that the widely used drug could have caused between 900 and 1,300 babies to be born with severe birth defects, including brain damage. The FDA's concerns became public last week after the New York Times obtained a confidential agency report that raised...
...brave new science of reproductive technology has been a mixed blessing for childless couples. Women who were once told they might never conceive are now able to become pregnant. But fertility drugs or surgery can produce three or four, sometimes even eight or nine, fetuses. Not only does such a pregnancy threaten the mother's health, but each extra fetus increases the risk of miscarriage or premature birth, which can cause an infant's death or irreparable brain damage. In a widely publicized 1985 case, Californian Patti Frustaci gave birth prematurely to septuplets; only three survived...