Word: fetal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to protect the fetal life, such an amendment would have to go well beyond inviting individual states to ban abortion," Tribe told the panel. "The most basic human impulses are likely to prevent even the most rigid abortion laws from being strictly enforced," he added...
...your article on drinking while pregnant [Aug. 3]: recent evidence suggests that the last third of pregnancy may be the time of greatest vulnerability for the fetal brain. Therefore, even if a woman has been drinking heavily early in pregnancy, she has a better chance of having a healthier baby if she stops. This is not a recommendation to drink early in pregnancy. Women who diminish their drinking by midway improve their health and that of their unborn child...
Known as hydronephrosis, the condition can lead to death for newborn babies. Normally, fetal urine flows into the amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus; when the lower urinary tract is obstructed, the urine accumulates in the kidneys and bladder, which then begin to balloon, crowding the fetus' developing lungs and damaging the kidneys. In the Skinner case, doctors chose a new and promising method of treatment: surgery with the fetus still in the womb...
...promise, fetal surgery poses some difficult ethical dilemmas. Says Roy Filly, an ultrasound specialist who works with Harrison: "Even if the mother wants to have the baby, what do you do if you open up the womb and find the problem is much worse than you feared? Do you save the baby, even though it may be severely handicapped and require extensive lifelong medical care?" Fetal surgery also touches directly on the question of when life begins, a central issue in the debate over abortion. Says Dr. Leonie Watson, a pro-life advocate in San Francisco: "If they...
Most experts on fetal alcohol syndrome believe that abstinence is the most prudent course, but a few are concerned that the official warning was based on inconclusive evidence. Dr. Henry Rosett of Boston University School of Medicine notes that many obstetricians believe that small amounts of alcohol are harmless and relaxing, and they allow pregnant patients a glass of wine with the evening meal. Dr. Joe Simpson of Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago worries about instilling guilt in women who take an occasional drink: "Even if the studies are correct, it need not follow that every woman...