Meanwhile, Hawkeye and Trapper express concern that a cell culture will have to be sent to a laboratory in Tokyo, which will mean a 72-hour wait for the results.
Another supply officer, Major Morris (Ted Gehring), has hoarded three incubators but refuses to release any of them, and his superior Colonel Lambert (Logan Ramsey) is selling military equipment for personal profit.
Series regular Loretta Swit (Hot Lips Houlihan) does not appear in this episode.
Abortion was not legal in most areas of the United States until earlier in the year this episode was released, following the US Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision of January 22, 1973.
At the time of the Korean War, "freelance abortionists" would have implied people practicing medicine without a license and committing felonies.