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...Should medical scientists be allowed to conduct research on unborn or newly aborted fetuses? No, said the Department of Health, Education and Welfare last year, as it clapped a nationwide ban on fetal studies. But last week HEW reversed itself. Outgoing HEW Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced new rules that would permit hundreds of studies involving fetuses to go ahead. The rules, which apply to all projects funded by HEW, do not give researchers unrestricted rights to experiment on the unborn. Doctors still will be forbidden to carry out any experiment that would end the life of a fetus that...
...FEBRUARY a Boston jury convicted a City Hospital obstetrician of manslaughter for the death of a fetus. Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin had aborted the fetus during an October 3, 1973, operation on a 17-year-old pregnant woman. Abortion, however, was not the issue, according to the prosecution. Newman A. Flanagan, the prosecutor, argued that the special nature of the operation produced, for a least one split second, a live birth, and that the subsequent death of the "baby" constituted an act of manslaughter...
Flanagan knew full well that abortion was protected by a 1973 Supreme Court ruling, so he redefined abortion as a process that can result in birth. Under such a definition, Edelin's crime occurred not in the course of an abortion, but after that abortion was over, when the fetus was no longer a fetus, but a human being...
...abstainer from film nudity, Hudson will bare more than his sparkling teeth in Embryo, a new movie directed by Ralph Nelson. In the picture, Hudson portrays a medical researcher who raises an embryo in his laboratory. Trouble is, Dr. Rock mixes the wrong ingredients, and presto, a fragile fetus becomes a fetching filly played by Barbara Carrera, a Nicaraguan fashion model. Hudson and Carrera quickly get down to more basic research, including a fireside frolic in the buff. "When a scene demands it, that's that," said Hudson, who has been swimming to get in shape for the role...
...Doctors, clergymen and ethicists have never been able to agree on the point at which human life begins. Does it start at conception? When the fetus becomes capable of survival outside the womb? At the moment of birth? Dr. Dominick Purpura of New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine offers a new definition. He says that life starts when brain life begins, and he defines this point as some time between the 28th and 32nd week of pregnancy. Purpura bases his conclusion on 16 years of laboratory studies and more recent examinations of 30 premature and full-term...