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There are occasionally novelties to divert the delegates. During the debate on federally-funded abortions, a few delegates grew tired of waving their "Vote Life" signs and decided to unfurl a 20-foot banner with a picture of a fetus and the legend "abortion is murder." The "pro-choice" campaigners in the area decided they didn't "have to stand still for that kind of shit," as one explained. So they jumped in front of the baby poster, blocking the view with their banners, which featured a picture of the Statue of Liberty. The battle continued for the entire...
...menstrual cramps, abnormal bleeding and vaginal discharges. Left unchecked, such infections can scar and block the fallopian tubes, where the union of egg and sperm takes place, and sometimes lead to a hysterectomy. The I.U.D., when it fails, has also been suspected of causing ectopic pregnancies, in which the fetus grows outside the uterus. But recent studies indicate that the devices actually seem to reduce that danger in users compared with women who employ no contraception...
...girl's condition became increasingly apparent, she agreed to marry an Iranian taxi driver to save her family from disgrace. But the marriage fell through, and the brother, in a fit of anger, killed her. A male fetus was reported to have been removed from the girl's womb, and blood tests were carried out, presumably to determine paternity...
...exceptionally delicate procedure, performed some 15 to 20 weeks into the pregnancy, is done under a local anesthetic. Doctors scan the woman with pulsed sound waves to locate the fetus, the umbilical cord and the placenta. After making a small incision in the abdomen, they insert into the uterus and the amniotic sac a pencil-lead-thin tube containing an endoscope with fiber-optic bundles that transmit light. This enables the physicians to see tiny areas of the fetus. By inserting biopsy forceps into the tube, doctors can take a 1-mm (.04 in.) skin sample from the fetus. They...
...recently have also implicated it in genital abnormalities and infertility in sons. Now there is more unsettling news for DES daughters. When they reach childbearing age, they appear to be more vulnerable than others to miscarriage-as well as to stillbirth, premature birth and ectopic pregnancy (in which the fetus grows outside the uterus). Dr. Ann Barnes of Massachusetts General Hospital studied 1,236 women, half of them DES daughters. She reports in the New England Journal of Medicine that the risk of not achieving a full-term birth was 69% higher for DES daughters than for others. Barnes also...