Word: fetal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been significant strides in saving infants born early in the third trimester, when most abortions are already illegal, it is ; still nearly impossible to save those born before the 23rd week. Doctors question whether they will ever push viability back to a point much earlier than that. Until then, fetal lungs are not sufficiently developed. According to a brief filed in the Webster case by the American Medical Association, "the earliest point at which an infant can survive has changed little" since Roe was handed down...
...historians' brief argues that "a statecannot constitutionally justify the imposition of[burdens on the equality and liberty of women] byadopting one, highly-contested, metaphysicalconcept of the value of fetal life...
...have aborted the child or allowed doctors to try the same kind of white-blood-cell transplant after birth that had failed with their firstborn. But the couple, who prefer to remain anonymous, chose a historic third option: to let their child receive the first ever transplant of human fetal cells to a child in the womb...
...appears to have an immune system that is on the mend. If all goes well, David could leave his sterile prison by summer's end. Though his survival is not assured, the experiment could help researchers develop ways to correct other inherited, and congenital, disorders through the transplantation of fetal cells...
...aborted fetuses for medical purposes is a promising but highly controversial field. Doctors have transplanted fetal organs into infants and used fetal cells to treat Parkinson's disease in adults. Right-to-life advocates object strongly to such procedures unless the fetus comes from a mother who has had a miscarriage. But to David's parents, the issue was clear- cut: only aborted fetuses were available, and without the transplanted cells their boy would have had virtually no chance of survival...