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in an article in the New YorkTimes about an interview done about a book called “Origins: How the Nine Months before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives”, by Annie Murphy Paul   explain the kind of research that is done about the fetuses and how much of this research is actual in the advantage of the baby and or the mother. This book mainly focuses on the potential uses and misuse of the research. Fetal origins research started 20 years ago and it’s the idea of conditions women experience during the nine month they are pregnant, all of this can affect our health and well=being for the rest of our lives. But this idea was denied by the scientists and medical field in the 20^th century and they stared to give women all these drugs such as DES and thalidomide. They believed that the fetus was sealed away and nothing will be able to harm them, but unfortunately, all of that was wrong when the babies were born.

With this sort of research a lot can be done in protecting both the fetus and the mother. But according to Lisa Belkin “Would it be a trigger for greater resources toward helping pregnant women be healthy? To reduce their stress, improve their nutrition, and clean their environments? Or would it become just one more way to blame the mother?” or would it still remain the same?