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...main issue were the women's access to a medical treatment or a constitutionally protected activity, denying validity to the pro-life position in the same way that defenders of slavery might have pointed to constitutional support for property rights. Pro-choice unwillingness to consider the possibility of the fetus' personhood is a blind spot that prevents comprehension of the moral urgency motivating outspoken pro-life demonstrators...
...violence their aim. In fact, a commitment to non-violence is often the starting point for opposition to abortion. Instead of criminalizing or demonizing the pro-life position, one should endeavor to understand how these moral principles would make someone feel duty-bound to protect both mother and fetus by preventing the former from aborting the latter...
...within weeks will transform Poland from a country with virtually no legal limits on abortion to one that possesses (next to Ireland) Europe's strictest laws on terminating pregnancies. Under the new measure, doctors can perform abortions only when there is proof of rape, incest, genetic abnormality in the fetus or an imminent threat to a mother's health. Noncomplying physicians are liable to two-year prison sentences...
...nearly all the monkeys tested positive for SIV-positive at birth. The results, Ruprecht said indicated that human babies whose mothers are HIV poaith's exposed to the virus late in the pregnancy or during actual delivery when the newborn comes in contact with skin or blood expose the fetus must come in contact with the amniotic find...
Ruprecht and her colleagues are continuing to seek possible therapies by studying the role of the immune system in mothers and infants. "We have a tool to study therapy which will give protections to the fetus," she said...