I can’t imagine any pregnant woman with a functioning brain even taking an aspirin without dire need-the whistle has been blown on prescription drugs such as antidepressants in the UK already-they are looking just as bad as the illicit stuff.
I and most of my family believe drugs are bad juju, illicit or prescription, and I never touch them, but that is just my opinion. I would never seek to force it on anyone by law or threat.
As a child, I remember hearing about thalidomide causing terrible birth defects-my mom told me that it was considered a safe sleeping pill for years...
Thalidomide was a sedative discovered to be effective at treating the symptoms of morning sickness. Because it is chemically racemic, thalidomide consists of two molecular isomers that are mirror images of eachother. One of these halves inserts itself into biological processes—I don’t think we know how, exactly—and adversely affects child development, leading to birth defects.