Word: abortment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revised guidelines, which must still be approved by NIH Director Dr Robert S. Stone and the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ban all experiments involving women about to undergo abortions if they might harm the fetus, and prohibit any experiments that would prolong the life of an abort ed fetus once its ultimate survival is judged to be impossible. Few research ers are expected to violate the ban, which applies to any American scientist receiving NIH support. Anyone who does can lose federal support for all other research he may be conducting...
...breakin. At this time, according to Dean, Nixon praised him, and Dean assumed this was because he had helped keep the investigation confined to those functionaries. About the same time, Dean said, the President ordered his staff to apply pressure to the House Banking and Currency Committee to abort its plans to hold Watergate hearings. The hearings were canceled when the committee voted against seeking subpoena power to compel testimony...
...chromosomes on the last pair. Male cells have one X and one Y. Given this information, the pregnant mother of four female children could have amniocentesis performed to determine the fetus's sex. Knowing the sex of the child in advance, the parents could decide whether or not to abort. In this way, families could maintain a balanced--or an unbalanced--male-female ratio...
...that is linked to hemophilia. Male infants conceived from an ovum containing the defective X chromosome will be hemophiliacs. It could be perfectly simple, then, to test carriers of hemophilia, determine whether or not their babies are defective, and then depending on the wishes of the parents to abort...
However, there are certain legal and moral questions that are raised. One asks if a mother who is not willing to abort should be allowed or convined to undergo amniocentesis. If the procedure becomes very common, the discovery of a handicapped child could easily amount to an edict for abortion. The race-linkage of some defects makes members of those races understandably concerned lest amniocentesis become a potent tool of genocide in the hands of a profession dominated by white upper-class anglo-Americans...