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Harvesting Fetal Ovaries...
...tests involving hundreds of patients. A series published in the Albuquerque Tribune detailed one experiment in which 18 people were injected with high concentrations of plutonium, apparently without their full consent. In another test, 800 pregnant women were exposed to radioactive iron in order to investigate its effects on fetal development. The testicles of 67 inmates at an Oregon state prison were exposed to X rays to determine how radiation might alter sperm production...
...shot four times: once in each leg, once in the abdomen and, finally, once in the head. Classmates worshipped Ensign Kerryn O'Neill, 21, an honors student and a track star at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. She was found not far from Grizzard, curled in a fetal position. She had been shot at close range in the back of the head. Like Grizzard and O'Neill, Ensign George P. Smith, 24, was a midshipman at Annapolis and was due to report for duty as an engineer aboard the U.S.S. Salt Lake City, a nuclear attack submarine. He shot...
...Scientists are developing testing procedures that will allow doctors to screen unborn infants for genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome by isolating fetal cells in the mother's blood, thereby reducing the need for riskier procedures...
...Though they are routinely administered to pregnant women as a way to detect fetal defects, expensive ultrasound screenings have not led to an increase in healthy babies. Experts now say the test should be done only in high-risk cases or at a woman's request...