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Such abnormalities may be caused by damaging antibodies which enter the brain of a fetus, Galaburda said yesterday afternoon...
Abnormal brain structure in dyslexics may also be caused by excessive levels of the hormone testosterone in the fetus...
...hours. In addition, it apparently does not impair fertility. One woman in the test group took RU 486 one month, aborted, then became pregnant again and came back for another dose the next month. No information is yet available on what effect RU 486 might have on the fetus if the drug fails to induce abortion; all of the 15 women who sustained their pregnancies after receiving the drug had clinical abortions. Dr. Couzinet hopes to improve the success rate of RU 486 even further by mixing it with small amounts of prostaglandins, biological compounds that cause the uterus...
Obviously, no one would take the argument this far. But then how do we demarcate when a woman is to be considered legally responsible for her conduct during pregnancy? We are faced with the same insoluble question that makes abortion such an intractable issue: when does a fetus become a human being that has legal rights and stop being part of its mother's body...
...suppose we were to settle, arbitrarily or otherwise, upon a time when a fetus could be considered a legal person--let's say the third trimester, currently the time at which abortions can be prohibited. What then is proper conduct for a mother during her third trimester...