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...material sacrifices, and virtually all of them came still laden with reservations. Compelled by family, friends or circumstances, they chose abortion as a last resort. One woman prays that God will forgive her for her sin. Many of those interviewed equate abortion with murder. Others do not define the fetus as a human being. Often these women feel that they have no other recourse and in a very real sense, they do not, for our society denies adequate financial and psychological support to unwed mothers and unwanted children...
...patients. At least technically, their part in the decision to perform an operation can be as difficult and as uncertain as that of the women; medical and legal risks are everpresent and diverse--there is not even a definite consensus as to the period of gestation after which a fetus should not be aborted...
...April 1974 Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin was indicted for manslaughter after he performed an abortion without attempting to save the life of the fetus, aged somewhere around 24 weeks. After a trial necessarily involving the participants' personal moral judgements, the court found Edelin guilty on February...
Another promising approach was reported by Dr. Robert R. Riggio and his co-workers at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Riggio was aware that women produce large amounts of antibodies during pregnancy, specifically in response to the fetus, yet somehow manage to tolerate this "foreign" tissue in their bodies. He therefore wondered whether the baby might actually be stimulating the production of "blocking antibodies" within the mother that neutralize her immune reaction against the fetus. If so, perhaps the same response could be artificially produced in transplant recipients...
...fertilized egg was then implanted in the uterine wall of a second female that had been chosen as foster mother because she had ovulated on the same day as the genetic mother (which meant that her uterus was prepared to accept the embryo). The foster mother carried the developing fetus for 174 days and then gave birth to a normal male infant...