Word: fetus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blake did breathe, and today he is a healthy nine-month-old -- thanks to a dramatic operation carried out when he was still a fetus. This procedure, the most impressive achievement yet in the young field of fetal surgery, was performed by Dr. Michael Harrison and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco and reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Seven weeks before Blake was born, the doctors cut into his mother's uterus and partly removed the fetus. Then they opened his left side, patched the hole in his diaphragm and put his organs...
...surprisingly, Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy--who has trumpeted throughout her political career her unconditional support for a woman's right to abort her fetus--immediately attacked his "outrage," and the two have been snarling at each other ever since...
...political warfare broke out. Both pro-life and pro-choice forces have since won victories: Michigan, Minnesota and Florida declined to enact new strictures on abortion; South Carolina began requiring parental or judicial consent for minors; Pennsylvania outlawed abortion for parents unhappy with the sex of the fetus. Last week abortion foes scored their greatest success yet when Idaho's senate passed the toughest abortion measure in any state...
Marcus criticized the "elevation of the fetus in American society." Legal discourse on the fetus, Marcus said, helps perpetuate the view of the fetus as the victim of an intruding woman desiring an abortion...
...legalization of RU 486 will alter the moral underpinnings of both sides of the debate. Anti-abortionists will have little effectiveness in convincing us that a blood clot is a fetus. Pro-choicers will be just as ineffective in arguing that regulation of abortions will force women into back-alleys...