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It is always touching—and sometimes even awesome—to see the courage with which these small victims of birth defects face the consequences of the physical or mental damage they suffer Ultimately, however, one becomes angry about the sad, wasteful erosion of young life. Why, one asks over and over, must these tragedies happen'1 Why are a quarter of a million newborn babies denied the gift of normal health every year in the United States'1
Anger is not enough to meet this challenge. It must spiral into an active protest that will become a nationwide force in the fight to prevent birth defects. We owe it to unborn generations to support those who are leading this figh^
Since 1958, following the successful conquest of epidemic polio, the March of Dimes has devoted itself to the long-neglected field of birth defects.
Looking back on that decision now, I realize that in a sense this move was a protest against the shameful apathy and inaction that enveloped the subject. Public ignorance was appalling, the result of a centuries-old attitude that birth defects were tragic inevitabilities, and there really wasn’t much you could do to prevent these cruel acts of nature.
Yet within the past decade tremendous changes have oc
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