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...anti-contraception law and recognized for the first time a constitutional right to privacy in family, sexual and other matters. The Justices were also influenced by the 1972 opinion of U.S. District Judge Jon O. Newman that overturned Connecticut's anti-abortion statute. Newman concluded that a fetus is not a person until it is born, and that it has no constitutional rights. Though acknowledging that there are wide differences of opinion about the moment when human existence begins, Newman ruled that the moral certainty of some people "must remain a personal judgment, one that they may follow...
Methadone, which easily crosses the placental barrier, may impede the fetus's normal development. More than 50% of all children born of methadone mothers are either premature or small for their gestational age. The same is true of the heroin baby, but most mothers on heroin receive minimal prenatal care and often have poor eating habits. By contrast, the methadone mother in a registered maintenance program is usually referred to a doctor for prenatal care. Although physicians cannot yet prove it, some suspect that the underdevelopment and prematurity of the methadone baby is a direct result of the drug...
...dilemma becomes more acute she said, as the fetus becomes more stable. She suggested that abortions be permissible until the eighteenth week of pregnancy, but she expressed uncertainty about later abortions, inviting comments from the audience on this and other points...
...need for vitamins and other dietary supplements subscribe to some of her dietary dogmas. A number of nutritionists, for instance, are as critical as she of obstetricians who force pregnant women to control their weight stringently. That kind of dieting is frequently carried to extremes unhealthy for both the fetus and the mother...
...authorities continued the prosecution of the angel maker and of the other women as accomplices. The defense responded by attacking France's anti-abortion law, which forbids the operation except to save a woman's life. Nobel-prizewinning Biochemist Jacques Monod testified that, in his opinion, a fetus only a few weeks old could not be considered a "human being." Author Simone de Beauvoir denounced the law as an oppression of women, while Actresses Françoise Fabian and Delphine Seyrig said that they were equally guilty, since they too had had abortions...