Word: fetal
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...abortion rights take as a given that a fetus is not a person. HRL takes the opposite position. While our opponents find a fetus’ lack of personhood obvious and try to squelch debate on the topic by focusing exclusively on the rights of a mother, we think fetal personhood is a question that needs to be carefully examined by voters (the target audience for the postering campaign) in order for them to make an informed voting decision. Consideration of fetal personhood is also important to any woman considering aborting a fetus. Our posters seek to provide information (such...
...during the night, a storm arose, and the next day sheets of rain reduced visibility to a few feet. Some of us played cards in the main tent, but others curled up inside sleeping bags in a fetal position, trying to stay warm. The second day, we set off in a drizzle, trekking up steep ice fields encrusted with ash. Soon it poured again. We crossed paths with a group of drenched Austrians. Only upon our return to Petropavlovsk did we discover that we had hiked seven hours through a 50-m.p.h. hurricane. Nonetheless, the spectacle was worth the effort...
...Soon they may also be able to "feel" the fetus, thanks to a new PC-based ultrasound device called the e-Touch Sono. The system combines data from a regular ultrasound machine with a force-feedback mechanism like those used in some video games. Touch the image of a fetal cheek with a hand-held stylus, and signals sent from the computer to mechanical motors in the stylus will simulate the sensation of pressing against soft skin. Move the stylus across the fetus' face, and you will feel the contours of its nose, lips and ears.Watch the baby's form...
Everybody knows that babies are good for business, but few know it quite as well as Tracie Pierce. She's director of operations at Fetal Fotos, a chain of studios headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, that sells to expectant mothers ultrasound portraits of their babies while they are still in the womb. The chain is the largest of perhaps two dozen similar businesses cropping up at strip malls and on street-corners around the country. They owe their popularity to improvements in the software used to create ultrasound images. Mothers willing to give $150 and 30 minutes of their...
...associate commissioner Linda Arey Skladany, a former drug-industry lobbyist with longstanding ties to the Bush family. Skladany rejected at least two nominees proposed by FDA staff members: Donald R. Mattison, former dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, and Michael F. Greene, director of maternal-fetal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Despite pressure from inside the FDA to make the appointment temporary, sources say, Skladany has insisted that Hager get a full four-year term. FDA spokesman Bill Pierce called Hager "well qualified...