Word: fetal
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...consciousness after that accident, and doctors say she never will. Now 32, she lies in a condition known as a persistent vegetative state, awake but totally unaware, at the Missouri Rehabilitation Center at Mount Vernon. Her body is stiff and severely contracted, her knees and arms drawn into a fetal position, her fingers dug into her wrists. Some nurses report that Cruzan can turn toward persons who speak to her and that she has cried on several occasions, once when a valentine card was read to her. But doctors say she is oblivious to the environment except for reflexive responses...
...Administration's hostility to in-vitro research is more puzzling than its opposition to experiments with fetal tissue. The goal of the technique is to assist infertile couples who want children, an objective that seems to square with the President's pro-family views. Opponents argue that since human life begins at conception, the accidental but inevitable destruction of some embryos during in-vitro fertilization is murder. The irony is that in their zealous defense of the lives of "unborn children," the foes of in-vitro fertilization are preventing other children from ever being born...
Sullivan vehemently insists that contrary to reports, it was he, not Mason, who made the decision last month to continue a federal ban on research in fetal-cell transplants, overruling the recommendation of an NIH committee that the research be continued. But there is no question that a decision to go forward with the research, which holds promise for finding new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and diabetes, would have provoked a fierce test of wills between Sullivan and Administration pro-lifers, who oppose the use of fetal tissue in medical research...
...dice. Stark, actually the ghost of Beaumont's fetal twin, who was incompletely absorbed in utero (the medical horror here is the book's only high-voltage shocker), comes to life as a cunning psychopath who, somewhat ludicrously, is determined to keep on writing. He slices up Beaumont's agent and editor and several other innocents with a straight razor, in scenes so lovingly detailed they would be called pornographic if the author had given the same attention...
Nobody likes abortion. Pro-choice advocates do not consider abortion an attractive option to birth-control. What the pro-choice position realizes, however, is that once government takes reproductive decision-making away from individual men and women, fetal life as well as the lives of women are at stake. Legal abortion is a right that guarantees women--not government, not private business--the power of all reproductive choice...