Word: fetus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pregnant women, steer clear of smoke. Exposure to PASSIVE SMOKE--even small amounts--can significantly increase the odds of giving birth to a baby whose lungs don't function properly. The damage begins in utero when chemicals from cigarette smoke cause less oxygen to go from mother to fetus...
...drugs may have side effects, however, such as reducing the rate at which wounds heal and preventing fetus development. However, Folkman said the side effects are minimal when contrasted to those caused by chemotherapy: hair and weight loss, nausea and diarrhea...
...months researchers will begin putting HIV-infected mothers on combination therapy with protease inhibitors to see if they can cut the rate to zero. But protease inhibitors are so much more powerful and potentially toxic than AZT that no one knows what harm it might do to the developing fetus...
...have been happily pregnant have pored over the pictures in A Child Is Born, amazed that a creature still months away from filling the Jenny Lind crib in the nursery is so, well, human. We know there's a life's worth of difference between a 20-week-old fetus and a 24-week-old one. A 1991 study shows that 34% of babies delivered at that point live. This puts Roe's trimester construction on a collision course with our own eyes...
...relish being called an "extremist" for having a definite opinion on the abortion issue and for being able to find no point where a fetus miraculously becomes a human being if it were not one all along. (It may not be a completely developed specimen of humanity, but then again, neither is a ten-year-old.) I don't run around with shotguns (neither does any pro-lifer I know), but I can't help hoping that the laws of the country will change to protect these "least among us," as many of our other articles of legislated morality already...