1.   Babies were born with severe deformities.

2.   Doctors have long alerted us to severe deformities, giving parents a choice of aborting or having a child who may not have a normal life.

3.   Ferguson believes that the deformity rate might have been even higher earlier in the year before frogs with severe deformities died.

4.   Gulls and terns are hatching young with severe deformities and high death rates.

5.   The opponents say that those severe deformities sometimes mean only cleft palates or other medical problems that could be managed or even corrected in life.