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...JUST FOR BABIES Ultrasound, most commonly used to monitor a growing fetus, is as effective as the routine MRI in detecting blood-vessel blockages after a heart attack...
Interspersing short, original pieces with information on FAS, the performers assembled a show that demonstrated both the brutal effects of alcohol on an unborn fetus as well as FAS's relevance to their own communities...
...country. As many as 20,000 of them could be in legal limbo. As of now, the courts have no clear rules for resolving questions of ownership and control. Lawyers can't even agree on whether a frozen embryo should be regarded as a human life form, like a fetus, or an inanimate piece of property...
Last month on the Jerry Springer Show, just after one of the program's famous brawls and just before it cut to a commercial, a woman held a sonogram of her fetus up to the camera. For this most intimate image--a tiny figure in a woman's womb--to appear in the midst of another Springer spectacle was shocking. More than that, the incident marked the arrival on the program of what might be called the Forgotten Guest. One reason the show is so dramatic is that Springer brings out everyone involved in the affair at hand...
...Koop, an antiabortion activist whom Reagan plans to nominate as Surgeon General: "Nothing like it has separated our society since the days of slavery." On one side are the crusaders "for life," who argue on religious and moral grounds that abortion is the murder of an unborn person (the fetus) and thus should be outlawed by constitutional amendment. On the other side are crusaders "for choice," who contend that abortion is a right that women must have if they are ever to be free to control their own bodies, indeed, their own lives...