The Birth Defects Monitoring Program (BDPM) was launched in part in response to the epidemic of which type of defects among children whose mothers had taken the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy in the 1960s?
A) Microencephaly
B) Limb reduction
C) Spina bifida
D) Tetralogy of Fallot

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Thalidomide caused limb reduction defects in children when taken by mothers during pregnancy in the 1960s.

The Birth Defects Monitoring Program (BDPM) Was Launched in Part