Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 1974 Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin was indicted for manslaughter after he performed an abortion without attempting to save the life of the fetus, aged somewhere around 24 weeks. After a trial necessarily involving the participants' personal moral judgements, the court found Edelin guilty on February...
Another promising approach was reported by Dr. Robert R. Riggio and his co-workers at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Riggio was aware that women produce large amounts of antibodies during pregnancy, specifically in response to the fetus, yet somehow manage to tolerate this "foreign" tissue in their bodies. He therefore wondered whether the baby might actually be stimulating the production of "blocking antibodies" within the mother that neutralize her immune reaction against the fetus. If so, perhaps the same response could be artificially produced in transplant recipients...
...fertilized egg was then implanted in the uterine wall of a second female that had been chosen as foster mother because she had ovulated on the same day as the genetic mother (which meant that her uterus was prepared to accept the embryo). The foster mother carried the developing fetus for 174 days and then gave birth to a normal male infant...
ABORTION. In 1973 the court ruled that a state cannot stop an abortion when a woman and her doctor decide that she will have one-so long as the fetus is not "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb." But does a woman's husband have any rights in the matter, and if she is an unmarried minor, can her parents forbid the abortion? Last week, by a vote of 6 to 3 on the first question and 5 to 4 on the second, the court ruled that neither husband nor parent may have "an absolute...
SINCE THE SUPREME Court decision on abortion, no one can deny a woman's legal right to terminate the life of an unborn fetus. But abortion remains an extremely sensitive moral issue, and the University should not offer a mandatory health insurance plan that covers non-therapeutic abortions...