Thalidomide Babies, from "Women of the World"

If you've no idea what thalidomide is, or why the narrator seems so bent out of shape about it, look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide . The message here is rather heavy-handed, and one gets the impression that you're supposed to leave the theater feeling uplifted about woman's noble purpose in the world. It's a testament to changing values that it seems, to modern eyes, a bit gaudy.

Filmed around 1962, from the Italian documentary "La Donna Nel Mundo." Narrated in English by Peter Ustinov, its aim is to explore how different life is for women in the many cultures of the world.

Watch the whole movie: http://bit.ly/WomenOfWorld

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• babies
• thalidomide
• deformities
• birth
• defects
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• sealbabies
• mutants
• mutation
• women
• Mondo
• documentary
• 60s
• Ustinov

[snuckles108]

Doctors in their generation must be more evil than Hitler

[OrinBoborin]

@snuckles108 DUDE! GODWIN'S LAW!

[196323100]

Sorry, if it was an abortion before development for what ever reason know to her, then it is her choice and her body. the killing of a person that is not part of your body that has not threaten your life. now step back and look at your statement again and is the thought different?

[Nesa2012]

how can she kill such an innocent beautiful child

[redfordforpresident]

Trig Palin is coming along nicely, don't you think? The spitting image of his father, John McCain. Except his arms are longer. And his cheek is still smooth as a baby's butt, no wait, I just saw it growing as I typed this. It's alive, like John McCain's cheek. Cheek-to-cheek.

[truegamer187]

@Nesa2012 throw her ass in jail or kill her

[3909clancy]

Thalidomide cause tons of other conditions through the whole body of all the children.How could you ever say it just effected the childrens limbs.Go look up the side effects of the kids.

[Shoen]

@Etchadoodle

some peoples has mentale problem. i saw a video of a man in UK.

[dave4248]

@OrinBoborin, Thank you,...I wasn't trying to be funny. I don't make a joke out of suffering......wish I could say the same for so many christians I know.

[OrinBoborin]

@GeniusIQ150 As I said in another comment, it's strange to see people so easily oscillate between mercy and murder. Just because a 60s Mondo documentary is black and white I don't think we need to be. I'd be pretty interested to get an opinion from a Thalidomide victim.

[OrinBoborin]

@Etchadoodle This is by far the most controversial video from the movie. It's strange to see people so easily oscillate between mercy and murder. Just because a 60s Mondo documentary is black and white I don't think we need to be. I'd be pretty interested to get an opinion from a Thalidomide victim.