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...team of researchers from Israel and the Netherlands have taken a bold step that could help infertile woman by increasing the short supply of human donor eggs: harvesting the eggs from aborted fetal tissue. With the parents' permission, the team surgically removed developing ovaries from seven aborted fetuses aged between 22 and 33 weeks, and bathed them in a hormone cocktail designed to stimulate ovarian maturation. Although the follicles that eventually produce eggs would normally remain inactive until puberty, in this case they began to secrete the female hormone oestradiol after four weeks in the test-tube?a sign that...
...science and consider the research unethical. It makes more sense, they say, to harvest eggs from willing adult women, although the procedures are expensive and time-consuming. The ethical problems have already been addressed: a panel of British experts declared in 1994 that being derived from aborted fetal tissue would be psychologically damaging to any child. As Executive Director of the American Infertility Association Pamela Madsena says, "no one should reproduce against their will, or without their knowledge or consent. How can an unborn fetus consent to reproduce...
While approximately 90 percent of all abortions take place in the first trimester, before the fetus is 12 weeks old, second-trimester abortions remain rare and are most often performed in cases of extreme fetal deformities, or when the health or life of the mother is at risk...
...Partial-birth” abortion, a non-medical term actually coined by abortion rights opponents, refers to an abortion procedure usually performed in the second trimester due to fetal abnormalities or medical conditions threatening the mother. The procedure accounts for fewer than 1 percent of all abortions, or approximately 2,200 abortions a year. While the actual procedure is rarely used, it is sometimes critical in saving a pregnant woman’s life...
Holmes, who runs the Harvard-based Antiepeleptic Drug (AED) Pregnancy Registry, presented his findings at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal and Fetal Medicine last month...