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...commission asked for testimony from anti-abortion activists, lawyers, experts in medical morality and medical researchers. The Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, Ohio, a science research center, reported to the commission that tens of thousands of lives have been saved and countless future birth defects prevented by fetal research that would have been impossible under the present ban. By using live fetuses, important medical advances were made in developing German measles and Rh vaccines and in studying infant breathing problems and amniotic fluids.* At base the commission faces a classic conflict. On one hand, scientists argue that experiments that benefit...
...physician and professor of "bioethics" at Georgetown University. The fetus is also "human," at least in being "of human origin and in the process of becoming a human being -if nothing interferes." Paul Ramsey, professor of religion at Princeton University, says in his new book, The Ethics of Fetal Research (Yale University Press; $2.95), that the fetus is "live enough not to be dead, not yet mature enough to be an infant, yet a human being enough to deserve protection...
Taking all this into consideration, the commission must decide by May 1 what federal controls on fetal experiments are needed and how to apply them. Arthur Dyck of the Harvard Divinity School offered the commission a practical solution: the committee that reviews experiments in each hospital should include those who consider the fetus a "person" worthy of protection as well as those...
Edelin acknowledged after skimming passages from the tests that he could not find references to abortions in excess of 20 weeks fetal age, but that none of the books "set an upper limit" on abortion
Homans showed that a table of "crown to heel," or head to toe, fetal measurement that the pathologist had testified was to be found in a certain scientific paper could not in fact be found there. That paper did include a correlation of "crown to rump" fetal measurement with certain fetal ages...