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...outcry over experimentation on aborted human fetuses [July 30], which by the fact of having been aborted are not considered to be human beings, strikes me as ridiculous. If our society has decided that a human fetus is no more than a scrap of tissue attached to a woman's body, and therefore sanctions its removal at her whim, then surely it is foolish to become outraged by experiments performed on it, any more than it makes sense to become outraged about an experiment performed on an excised tumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1973 | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

...amount of "humanity" possessed by a fetus is sufficient to ban experiments on it, why isn't it sufficient to prevent its being killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1973 | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

...they would not have accorded such protection to fetuses that had been aborted. The proposed rules spelled out conditions under which experiments - including the temporary maintenance of life by means of an artificial placenta - could be conducted on them. Some research physicians feel that such experiments could give them valuable in formation on the causes of miscarriage as well as the effects on the fetus of drugs taken by pregnant women. Others believe that the opportunity to study live fetal tissue, which grows rapidly, might help them to understand better the uncontrolled multiplication of cancer cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fetal Position | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...revised guidelines, which must still be approved by NIH Director Dr Robert S. Stone and the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ban all experiments involving women about to undergo abortions if they might harm the fetus, and prohibit any experiments that would prolong the life of an abort ed fetus once its ultimate survival is judged to be impossible. Few research ers are expected to violate the ban, which applies to any American scientist receiving NIH support. Anyone who does can lose federal support for all other research he may be conducting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fetal Position | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...instead formed by a host of advertising slogans, magazine spreads and television screenplays. Maynard confesses that at 13 she was virtually enslaved by the fashion pages of Seventeen (she still has every copy since 1965), nearly traumatized by LIFE'S cover photograph of an unborn baby ("that eerie fetus") and mesmerized by the very worst of TV ("five thousand hours of my life into this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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