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...fetus is classed as human life, as claimed by antiabortionists, why is an aborted fetus not accorded the burial that a full-term dead baby receives? Likewise, why does a dead fetus, the result of a miscarriage, not receive burial as a human? The answer would seem to me to be that a fetus, aborted by accident or design, is not properly considered a human life until it is fully formed, for until then it cannot live as a human being...
...will inherit his parents' defective genes. The procedure is known as amniocentesis, from the Greek amnion (membrane) and kentesis (pricking); it is performed by inserting a long needle through the mother's abdomen and drawing off a small sample of the amniotic fluid, the amber liquid in which the fetus floats. Physicians then separate the fetal skin cells from the fluid and place the cells in a nutrient bath where they continue to divide and grow. By examining the cells microscopically and analyzing them chemically, the doctors can identify nearly 70 different genetic disorders, most of them serious...
...PRESENT, THE woman who learns through amniocentesis that she is carrying a seriously deformed fetus has only two choices: abortion or the heartbreak of delivering a hopelessly defective infant. But the mother whose unborn baby is found to have one of several hereditary enzyme deficiencies has a more acceptable alternative, for medicine has developed techniques for treating many such illnesses. An amniotic test for fetal lung maturity, for example, has helped warn doctors when a child may be born with hyaline membrane disease, which blocks proper breathing. In those cases, birth can be delayed by sedation until tests show...
...labeled the "C particle," is a part of everyone's genetic heritage, a tiny bit of RNA that is passed vertically from one generation to another and perhaps helps normal development by causing the cells of an embryo to grow. The C particle should become inactive as the fetus matures; if it fails to do so, the result is the rapid cell growth that characterizes cancer...
...says, even if a fetus is not human, "to destroy what might be human is to be willing to destroy what is human." In that case, then contraception is equivalent to murder since any pair of ovum and sperm has the potential to be human. Would Jimson recommend that we all burn our Trojans and Enovids and fall into bed precipitously...