Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FEBRUARY a Boston jury convicted a City Hospital obstetrician of manslaughter for the death of a fetus. Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin had aborted the fetus during an October 3, 1973, operation on a 17-year-old pregnant woman. Abortion, however, was not the issue, according to the prosecution. Newman A. Flanagan, the prosecutor, argued that the special nature of the operation produced, for a least one split second, a live birth, and that the subsequent death of the "baby" constituted an act of manslaughter...
...abstainer from film nudity, Hudson will bare more than his sparkling teeth in Embryo, a new movie directed by Ralph Nelson. In the picture, Hudson portrays a medical researcher who raises an embryo in his laboratory. Trouble is, Dr. Rock mixes the wrong ingredients, and presto, a fragile fetus becomes a fetching filly played by Barbara Carrera, a Nicaraguan fashion model. Hudson and Carrera quickly get down to more basic research, including a fireside frolic in the buff. "When a scene demands it, that's that," said Hudson, who has been swimming to get in shape for the role...
...Doctors, clergymen and ethicists have never been able to agree on the point at which human life begins. Does it start at conception? When the fetus becomes capable of survival outside the womb? At the moment of birth? Dr. Dominick Purpura of New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine offers a new definition. He says that life starts when brain life begins, and he defines this point as some time between the 28th and 32nd week of pregnancy. Purpura bases his conclusion on 16 years of laboratory studies and more recent examinations of 30 premature and full-term...
...security of the womb, Dr. Louis Gluck of San Diego's University Hospital has designed a tiny, heated water bed to simulate the warmth and buoyant pulsations of the baby's uterine environment. He also attached a tiny motor that provides motion similar to what the fetus experienced when the mother's heart beat and as she walked about. The preemie's sense of security is further heightened by the recorded sound of a pregnant mother's heartbeat piped into the artificial womb. Gluck hopes that his invention, which has been tested on only half...
...would have meant an implicit concession that the fetus had breathed at all, said Nesson...