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...head of the Right-to-Life group, entered the case on behalf of the state's unborn children. Heffernan's brief argued that overturning the law would deprive the unborn of life without due process. He noted that since the 18th century courts have recognized the fetus' right to inherit or to share a trust, and that modern developments in tort law have recognized suits for injury on behalf of the fetus. But a federal court overturned the Illinois law as "unconstitutionally vague" because it did not clearly specify what acts were violations. There was a brief...
...Life. Most of the organizations share similar methods: lobbying against liberalized abortion legislation and spreading anti-abortion publicity. Often there is picketing and a dramatic-to some, shocking-display. Last week when 400 abortion foes demonstrated outside a California Medical Association meeting in Anaheim, some carried bags of aborted fetuses. On another occasion, a Right-to-Life spokesman turned up at an abortion discussion in San Fernando, Calif., with a fetus in a bottle. Commented one member of the pro-abortion group: "If I had known props were in order, I would have brought a casket with a dead mother...
...Lung. Gluck's research team discovered that the fetal lung generally matures around the 35th week of pregnancy. This development is signaled by a change in the amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus. At that point, the level of a phospholipid known as lecithin usually rises sharply and surpasses the level of another lipid, sphingomyelin. To determine if this has occurred normally, the Gluck test uses transabdominal amniocentesis, a technique that involves inserting a sterile needle through the abdomen into the womb, drawing off a sample of amniotic fluid and measuring the lipid levels...
Twice in New Jersey, however, courts have ordered vitally necessary blood transfusions for a fetus over the religious objections of the mother to such medical practice. The U.S. Supreme Court forced Mormons to abandon polygamy. For example...
Since human life begins at conception, every fetus has the right to live, even when the mother is pregnant by accident or rape. said Lynch, lecturer in Obstetrics at Boston College School of Nursing and past president of Carney Hospital...