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...different, which is what seven-year-old pilot Jessica Dubroff's death last April should have taught us. And the line dividing the kids from the grownups is at least as serious and consequential as that other life-cycle boundary we fuss so much about--the one separating a fetus from a human being...
Norman Reece is an antiabortion candidate; his campaign posters feature the tiny feet of a 10-week-old fetus. An elder and deacon at his church, he promotes "Principles over Politics," his campaign slogan. Reece's principles are orthodox conservative, with heavy emphasis against "meddlesome government." His base of support is solid, but probably not deep or wide enough to win this overwhelmingly Democratic district...
That case is hard to make when even abortion opponents admit that few hospitals perform third-trimester abortions and fewer still the controversial procedure in which a doctor removes a fetus feetfirst, then makes an incision in the baby's head to suck out the brain, collapse the skull and extract the head from the birth canal. In many such abortions, the fetus is so severely deformed or the pregnancy so complicated that carrying the child to term would threaten the life or health of the mother. Here lies the core of the fight: Clinton supports...
...studies involving immature eggs, surely the most controversial--and, to some ethicists, downright repugnant--is the work on ovarian tissue. Researchers have been performing experiments aimed ultimately at transplanting such tissue from fetuses--either aborted or miscarried--into infertile women. Fetal tissue is a rich source of eggs. A five-month fetus has cells that can produce about 7 million eggs, in contrast to the mere 400,000 or so that survive to a woman's puberty. Researchers have suggested using this tissue to establish egg banks for infertile women, who could then give birth to children...
...cartilage and bone near joints. While doctors still do not know why the body turns against itself, they are exploring some promising prospects for relief. One involves mimicking the activity that dampens the immune system in pregnant women, allowing their bodies to adjust to the presence of the foreign fetus. Some doctors believe repeated vaccinations of properly prepared foreign cells will curb the immune reaction enough to hinder the inflammation of arthritis. Other researchers are genetically engineering cells to inject directly into knuckles, above, where they can "teach" the immune system to stop attacking the body's own cartilage...