According to current NIH Guidelines, which of the following is adequate justification for exclusion of women from NIH-funded research? There is compelling evidence that inclusion would be inappropriate with respect to the health of the subjects.
Inclusion of women would complicate analysis of the results and increase the costs of conducting the clinical trial.
The woman is of child-bearing potential.

There is compelling evidence that inclusion would be inappropriate with respect to the health of the subjects.

Explanation:

The National Institutes of Health Guidelines outline safety standards and management protocols for clinical research including recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules, the development, and utilization of organisms and viruses containing recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules. The exclusion of women based on health risk raises the question of sexual bias because the same risk is there for men in the research.

I would choose B because people did think this was a plague brought on by god. At the the same time D would be the next likeliest answer as workers would demand more for the labor they were doing.