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Michael Thorp, born in Seattle in 1984, suffers mental retardation, malformed limbs and other handicaps, all aspects of a condition known as fetal alcohol syndrome. Now a court is wrestling with the question of who, if anyone, is responsible for his condition...
...James Beam distillery is the first liquor manufacturer to come to trial in a case involving fetal alcohol syndrome. Starting in November, all manufacturers of beer, wine and liquor must put labels on their containers warning that alcohol can cause birth defects and other health problems...
...been significant strides in saving infants born early in the third trimester, when most abortions are already illegal, it is ; still nearly impossible to save those born before the 23rd week. Doctors question whether they will ever push viability back to a point much earlier than that. Until then, fetal lungs are not sufficiently developed. According to a brief filed in the Webster case by the American Medical Association, "the earliest point at which an infant can survive has changed little" since Roe was handed down...
...historians' brief argues that "a statecannot constitutionally justify the imposition of[burdens on the equality and liberty of women] byadopting one, highly-contested, metaphysicalconcept of the value of fetal life...
...aborted fetuses for medical purposes is a promising but highly controversial field. Doctors have transplanted fetal organs into infants and used fetal cells to treat Parkinson's disease in adults. Right-to-life advocates object strongly to such procedures unless the fetus comes from a mother who has had a miscarriage. But to David's parents, the issue was clear- cut: only aborted fetuses were available, and without the transplanted cells their boy would have had virtually no chance of survival...