as a show of the gods that. you can do that. goes until this even if there is a number of agencies they were asked to go back one bit to the to the country. the worst drug disaster in history would spread through more than forty six countries and produce up to twenty thousand badly deformed babies worldwide. but historians today single out one birth in one nine hundred sixty one that changed the course of history in hamburg germany linda shoulder fillin age twenty three gave birth to her first child her husband wasn't with her at the time and he was quiet. and then lay back and was relaxed and some on somebody whispered into my ear is your husband not all right and i was

here white awake and i said. what what's got what has happened to my baby is anything wrong here she said just. let say. without any emotion oh yeah he's just got short arms and i like a child would have asked possibly i said and i'll take oing any more and scott grow this will be like it is now. and then i felt like i was beaten to death. a doctor gave the first time mother some friendly advice just get another child. like forget about him you know. i'm a way to get to. shortly afterwards linda's husband arrived and gave her some bad news he'd been keeping from her six weeks earlier his sister had given birth to

a baby with similar deformities it looks alike like our child there must be something that is the same all region the same difficulty the same problem in the background and we'll find it and we'll search and we won't stop until we fall and. the epidemic of deformed babies began five and a half years earlier on christmas day nine hundred fifty six with the birth of the first victim. in a small town of germany a mother had taken a new drug called for little mite being developed by a local drug company can be grown into her husband like other grown and talent boys had taken home a sample which he gave to his pregnant wife the baby would be the first of six other than my babies possibly more born to grin and thousand workers in the years

ahead but the company ignored the early warning signal. in their midst no that's old women action didn't investigate didn't talk to them didn't go to the hospital didn't look at medical records didn't contact experts there were multiple opportunities for cup holders asked short know what second nine months after the first deformed baby was born grown and launched the lin abide on to the german market under the brand name contraband going in thousand aggressive sales force whose motto was succeed at any cost continue to promote the drought cardigan they claimed was a safe sedative especially for pregnant women suffering from morning sickness sales zoomed and so little my became the second best selling drug next to aspirin. but linda's shoulder helen and her husband carl hammond were determined to find out what caused their son's short arms months later they were no closer to finding an

answer i know my husband had times when he said. we don't make it i think we have to get up and i said i'm not giving up. her husband soon contacted a professor of obstetrics dr video kinda lens who had received a few reports of deformed babies my father and professor lance they travel to germany and their road folks bargain and they went from one small village to another and asked are there any children with short legs or shut down and those kids were hidden away at the time in the small villages and he asked in restaurants and bars and the local police office and everybody said no not in our town and then he showed a picture of me and said this is my bari and can i please repeat my question and then they said well at the end of the road there has been a very sad incident and then he went there and drink the darn shot first thing he did was showing the picture of means that this is my son diaz halves of

a kid like this and the people burst into tears and and children thalidomide children's were. called to the day our flight literally. in england was being sold under the brand name distal by the country's largest liquor manufacturer the distillers company as in germany distillers had received reports of deformed babies but had been assured by green and thought that the drug was completely safe. louise mason was one of five hundred thirty three little my babies born in england over a six and a half year period louise only learned about the circumstances of her birth by reading her father's bestselling autobiography i haven't got any arms and i hadn't any negs and my dad said it was like little bugs. in both from my arms and from my legs my dad had

a look at me. and. he said. my god you're not going to let this baby live. and they say yes my mom was only twenty one and she was advised by doctors to put me away and concentrate on having another family. after eleven days in hospital her parents took louise to an institution for handicapped children where she would spend the next eighteen years of her life but louise was fortunate her father had not asked another doctor to end her life because i'm questionable that midwives and doctors were killing disabled children in the hospitals and the delivery rooms on a large scale. in britain. in germany and if they're

probably everywhere else. in canada another armless baby was spared by a poor ukrainian family in rural cisco. years later alvin law learned how horrified his natural parents were when he was born ultimately it was the perturb grandmother who didn't want to have anything to do with us she said you're not going to bring that devil baby home with you ease he's deformed because of a curse. the armless baby wasn't taken home after doctors warned he would never lead a normal life but after six weeks an elderly couple jack and hilda law who had already raised their own children volunteered as foster parents and got their first look at al and took one look and i thought no wonder nobody wants. and the next i went to see him percy had a bath and dressed and hid and took their toll. well although in favor of taking

him oh boy we've raised our family but. it was a baby with nobody wanted i'm sure we're going to. turn out ok. my life story shifted the moment that sophie and peter my first father gave me up. that that that is a profound chapter shift in my life because i went to live with the laws my life became this life. back. in cincinnati ohio and deeply religious roman catholic couple with six children were expecting another normal birth my mother's story is that when i was born they were not at all prepared and the doctor said joy your baby doesn't have any

legs. so she says that she took the baby me and she said well eileen is my four leaf clover i have a sibling who told me that my father cried and that when he came home he handed me to my siblings and everyone got very upset and they said take it away. someone ripped off the blankets and said that's not a baby or something to that effect that's not our sister. that was what i was taught. as a young child. people. eileen cronan was one of several follow the my babies born in cincinnati where an

american drug company richardson merrill had their headquarters like the german drug company merrill promoted the drug as completely safe even during pregnancy like green and merrill had no evidence to back this up. merrill applied to the federal drug administration in one nine hundred sixty for approval to bring seldom might onto the american market and was allowed to conduct clinical trials on patients across the country now it wasn't a clinical trial at all what it was was a marketing campaign trumped up to look like a clinical trial michael magazine it is an australian lawyer and former investigative reporter who spent years researching these a lot of my disaster what merrill wanted to do was to familiarize doctors with a drug so that once they got approval they would have doctors already to go through with a drug raid to prescribe it like crazy. during this time richardson merril handed out two and a half million dollars to my pills to thousands of doctors in the united states in

canada. in germany grown in thousand advertising campaign was paying huge dividends the company's owner and executives were making fortunes over night especially heinrich mukhtar going in thousand research director. during the war mokhtar served as a natty doctor developing vaccines which were tested on jewish prisoners in the book and vowed concentration camps many of whom died after the war mokhtar joined green and cell nine years later he invented solidified and received a bonus for every thought in my pills sold worldwide the drug was such a success for granted. that stop they. making money hand over fist. on a percentage of profits moved from being modest. to having so much money pouring in he could have both himself and you must say this every one hundred sixty one really he's making twenty times his salary in terms of

a percentage so he's getting this massive massive bonus he's become a ludicrously rich man on the back of the moment. what would a man want that with a history of wartime experimentation strong personality a massive income running on the selves of what would one expect that he would do when confronted with reports of nerve damage and other side effects but it is not surprising to me that there was not a rush to investigate to get to the bottom of it to put warnings on the tribe to withdraw to take all sorts of course and so i did know that they just focused on selling more the drugs and it really was some time to prescott the whole of it. and they knew it was going to go public but they finally backed off and agreed. the democrats are not socially they are pro-war and so are the republicans and the problem people have a trump is that he's pro peace and that's not acceptable in america today that runs

except for against iran. walking the walk and you know you have to do it you have to do but he's. going down the path of hillary clinton clearly was. president donald trump took center stage at the united nations this week the middle east was very much on his mind particularly a read sitting in the general assembly trumps words were simply laughable however what is happening in the middle east and beyond is anything but. through her her through her through her.

was through. on nov twenty eighth one thousand nine hundred sixty one a day after the thalidomide scandal made headlines in west germany going in thousand elst it was withdrawing the drug from the market even the first latest the spring of nineteen sixty one. had taken the drug off the market that they would have spat off the basis. of i'm glad as it was disability weren't so severe but as a young child niko had trouble adjusting to his short arms. and his findings angsty skin too few could find on is this company also mr noir does his feeling of fire and in one vanish from peter and some of the most at some point hope so on foot off

the connote. one stiver from the fearless arts to underpin dolphin bone to care to notice how far far. down from alex to. you know least globish thank you for it. all not. for the. love of. me in england louise mason didn't see her. parents and three seventh's for months at a time. i was left alone most of the time my parents had other children there's no way that they could leave them with my nan because my crime i was old so they just stopped coming. i went home three weeks

a year. for a week. in the summer. easter. every quality was like getting to know your brothers and sisters again. in new york chances catch you and alvin law's parents decided the best way to get their arm the son to cope with life was to turn his tones into fingers for hours alvin was given manual task to perform with his feet. grounded having no ours it is a rather simple disability it's very complicated disability. i'd be lying if i didn't say it was a lot of work a lot of work a lot of time spent by myself very long very. very frustrated but i think it was the character that was built by my parents especially by my hair. that allowed me to not really think that i was all that different. it's not an easy thing to

get dressed but. again it goes back to the basic theory of my life and that is to i have someone look after me or do i look after myself. but more than anything i think it's a mindset you know that ok there's a lot of people in our world that have weighed bigger problems than i so that i have to spend a little extra effort putting my clothes on so what. the moment i started using my tolls and my feet and my legs was the same moment i ceased to have a disability. in the united states there would have been thousands of the little my babies like ellen law except for the actions of one woman dr francis kelsey a canadian born doctor and pharmacologist had just joined the federal drug

administration when she received an application to bring thalidomide onto the american market here as a drugs. it looked like it should be no problem but at the same time there was just a feeling. to something in the leader of the absence of. cause of concern the application came from richardson merrill one of america's oldest drug companies known years ago for its best selling product. merrill poured on the pressure they contacted the f.d.a. fifty times they went behind a back to this period they can find a better and rotting threatens the proceedings they pushed and pushed and pushed and she was resolute she was unbelievably tough. but i know that we're always most indebted to dr kelsey the relationship in the hope that all of us have for our children in august one thousand nine hundred sixty two president john f. kennedy awarded the highest civilian honor an american can receive to dr francis

kelsey so kill sea really so you know it starts from. the mother but then. i come home from the playground one day my mom says honey good news you're going to get arms dear i mean you just remember a day like that right i thought we were going shopping you know arms or us i don't know. i was very confused they they had hawks and they were made of metal and plastic and wood i mean i couldn't take off my shoes i wasn't allowed to use my feet can imagine a weird that was. so this became an interesting life half of my life was being elven law the kid with no arms the other half of my life was this terrible victim of the little guy. i lost my sense of what was right stick these arms around me on my own body more all the more doesn't have any arms are special or not so why don't why why would i leave them when there was no good reason not one good reason. to

use them for years i tol may start doing me any good. and i was like shut up. i was a bluff it was you know we know what we're doing you doth. most the other miners don't use artificial limbs today but eileen cronan is an exception she wears artificial legs every day to get around. i was born with both legs from the knees down according to my mother i did it down to the legs pretty quickly. and if you have. you know artificial legs a lot of things go wrong you've got to go around conducting life and yet you know you've got a skin infection and you've got to play your leg on when he couldn't do me i put

the leg on i guess that's not always the best thing to do but. that's what i do. in marge nine hundred sixty seven the owner and eight executives of growth all the german drug company were charged with criminal negligence premeditated bodily harm and manslaughter. among the defendants was heinrich mokhtar the nancy doctor who made a fortune inventing fellow to mind. another chop green and it was amorous a nasty war criminal known as the devil's. chemist ambrose was convicted of war crimes he committed at auschwitz for which he served four years in prison but after the war the chemist found no shortage of employers including dow chemical j. peter grace and the u.s. army's chemical corps before he became chairman of green and sells board of directors in one nine hundred seventy one so in the nineteen seventies grotto had as the chair of

a man convicted of mesmo slavery. a man who hired nancy war criminals like ambrose and was owner. verts was a member of the local nattie party in his hometown before the second world war a service for which he was handsomely rewarded by. use of it was the personal lawyer for a good one thousand or herrmann verts but in december nine hundred sixty six berger resigned suddenly became justice minister in the province where the trial was being held. defense lawyer. ended up with a government responsibility overseeing the conduct of the trial. away from the trial a secret deal was worked out between going in thousand herrmann birds and the provincial government the secret deal was only revealed when the trial was dramatically stopped after two and a half years. in return for having all the serious criminal charges against its

owner and executives dropped the company agreed to pay the victim's life time pensions ranging from thirty to one hundred forty dollars a month as well as a small one time payment but in order to collect the money the little mite has had to agree not to launch any further suits against her and so taken as a whole the trial was. the trial of until. well canada loudly celebrated its one. hundredth birthday and nine hundred sixty seven b.c. maybe my family's suffered in silence a few parents had committed suicide others became alcoholics and some were having severe psychiatric. that's a little my children were now school age but the question that plagued medical and educational authorities was what type of school should they enter some experts

recommended schools for the handicapped while others advise the regular education system in new york since the scatman alvan laws parents had run into opposition from the local grade school when they tried to enroll him school says wait he's got no arms he can't go to school they don't have such a thing as integration on and out again what's integration is a kid in instability or school he needs to learn and it's to be educated he can write he can read what else do you need the school finally agreed to take alvin but soon afterwards he ran into a reaction his teachers expected and feared i came home and i was very upset because somebody had called the. i've never heard that word before it was never used in this house. it was never used in this neighborhood but i go to school there was no kids so i had to run home and i was a little freaked out mom called me down and that's when our first remember hearing those words that some people are born with black hair and some people are born with blonde hair and you we're born. in england one hundred ninety seven families of the

lady my children are suing distillers the british company which had distributed the drug distillers made a ridiculously low offer of compensation and warned that the money would be paid out only if all parents agreed to the lifetime the five families refused the offer they were led by david mason and wealthy london art dealer and father of louise now i came under tremendous pressure i received threats on my life i had a police guard for a period of time i had anonymous phone calls i had anonymous letter. you know threats from parents her father as well publicised opposition to the compensation created problems for louise and her care institution up until then i was not one of the crowd but often. i was picked on. louise escaped the hostility of our classmates when her father took her out to participate in publicized events for his campaign i was used as i as opposed to go. david mason's campaign

succeeded in increasing by six times the drug company's original offer to the parents i did pay a heavy pot. shots. if i hadn't paid that price the thalidomide is wouldn't have got the compensation when they got the compensation so i think it was well. unlike louise mason who rarely saw her mother during childhood young sheltie hill and formed a close bond with his mother from birth and her unwavering support and encouragement were critical in his career decision she never lost hope she'll she said cure everything you want to achieve in your life you're going to achieve it i have absolutely no doubt and when i when i turned up with their with the idea that . that i wanted to be a doctor everybody told me you should not it's not a very good idea you cannot do that you will have severe problems she said son do

your own thing if that's what you want to do you're going to match yon is now an emergency room doctor in switzerland i don't consider my condition as a major issue i mean i'm not a little modern for a start on the first but i'm a man i'm trying to be a good doctor and trying to be a good husband and i'm a father i'm a lover and i have short arms and that's it and if people have problems it's accepting me. i have problems to interact with me because i have short arms it's their problem it's not mine. but whole of the hinge to do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. we somehow want. you to go to beatrice was it like that before three of them or can't be good.

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