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...opening its mouth "in a silent scream" of pain and fear, proving that the fetus is "just another person, like you and me." In a panel discussion at the University of Washington School of Medicine, obstetricians with extensive experience in ultrasound reported that they could not make out the fetal features and gestures--including the "silent scream" which the narrator described. The type of camera, doctors and technicians agreed, is switched during the procedure to one that provides less resolution, so that here would be greater latitude for the narrator's description of a "life and death struggle...
Leading pediatric neurologists and neuroembryologists agree that until the third trimester of fetal development (24-36 weeks), the spinal cord is not far enough developed to pass messages to the brain, and the brain itself does not develop until then the cognitive structure needed to perceive pain or aggression or to perform "purposeful action." It is especially irresponsible for the narrator of the movie to assert that a 12-week fetus could experience pain. Dr. Edwin Myer, chairman of the department of pediatric neurology at the Medical Colege of Virginia, says "that the fetus feels pain is a totally ridiculous...
...until it can live outside the womb. The decision relied heavily on medical evidence that the fetus was not viable until about the seventh month of pregnancy, the third trimester. But recent advances in in fant care challenge that decade-old assumption. "It is certainly reasonable to believe that fetal viability in the first trimester of pregnancy may be possible in the not too distant future," Justice O'Connor wrote last year. "The court would not have to go against precedent," says Falkenberg. "It could simply say that the state had a compelling interest in protecting the fetus...
...Tylenol label three times over: Keep him away from water; keep him out of the light; and never never feed him after midnight. A few drops of water inadvertently fall on Gizmo, and pop! pop! pop! pop! pop!, five living fur balls fly from his body: Mogwai in fetal form. Gizmo's mutant offspring look and act like Munchkins reborn as Hell's Angels. They have disgraceful eating habits; they turn the greeting-card village into a South Bronx shambles, then send old Mrs. Deagle into fatal orbit...
Many U.S. doctors believe that the evidence against alcohol is strong enough to warrant strict warnings. But others disagree and doubt that warning signs are justified. Basically, physicians are disputing the degree of alcohol consumption necessary to risk the abnormalities that physicians call FAS, for fetal alcohol syndrome. Says Dr. Robert J. Sokol, an obstetrician at Wayne State University: "It's questionable whether there has ever been a case of an FAS child born to less than a chronically addicted woman." Dr. John Larsen of George Washington University even takes issue with the Surgeon General's findings. There...