Word: fetal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...page pamphlet, titled "She's a Child Not a 'Choice,'" contained descriptions of abortion techniques, information on human fetal development, personal stories of women who had chosen to terminate their pregnancies and several pictures of fetuses...
...Reinhard and Zarate stuffed the 90-lb. corpse, curled in its fetal position, into a backpack and climbed down after sunset. Eventually they were able to load Juanita onto the back of a mule, her body wrapped in blue foam sleeping pads to insulate it from the animal's body heat. She made the final leg of the trip to the city of Arequipa in the baggage hold of an overnight bus. A second expedition recovered the other two bodies...
...forward to find out what had happened. When I got to the head of the column, I saw a knot of Vietnamese huddled around a groaning soldier, a medic kneeling at his side. An ARVN noncom gestured toward the creek. Another small figure lay there in a fetal crouch. His head was turned sideways, and the creek flowed across his face. This man was dead. We had been ambushed. We had taken casualties from attackers who had vanished before we had ever seen them. The whole cycle--silence, shots, confusion, death and silence again--was over in a couple...
...provide abortions to poor women who suffer rape and incest, as well as the use of federal family-planning money to provide abortion counseling. Antiabortion legislators will also attempt to restore a series of prohibitions that Clinton overturned in his first week in office--among them, bans on fetal-tissue research and importation of RU-486, the French abortion-inducing drug. Clinton vetoes are expected, but, says Reed, some of the legislation is meant to be "veto bait," couched in relatively reasonable terms to give the impression that Clinton's abortion stance is radical...
...number of babies born with fetal alcohol syndrome increased 600 percent between 1979 and 1993, according to a Centers for Disease Control report released today. The number jumped from one per 10,000 in 1979 to 6.7 per 10,000 in 1993 alone. Researchers do not know for certain whether this is because more women are drinking alcohol during pregnancy or because doctors are doing a better job of diagnosing the problem. Symptoms of the syndrome, which was first described in the mid-1970s, include mental retardation, abnormal facial features, central nervous system problems, behavioral difficulties and growth deficiencies...