Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John F. Ward said that slides of a cross-section of lung tissue from the dead fetus revealed a "lack of uniformity" in the expansion of the air spaces, which he said was evidence of respiration of air by the fetus...
Under examination by Flanagan, Ward testified that in a stillborn fetus air cells in the lung are uniformly expanded with fluid secreted by the lungs...
Ward said that slides of lung tissue from the fetus involved in the Edelin case displayed collapsed, partially-collapsed and expanded alveoli, or air spaces. He concluded that the state of the lung cells was due to respiration of air by the fetus before it died...
Homans established that a fetus undergoes "distress" when the placenta, its connection to the mother, is separated from the uterus, and that under such distress a fetus might begin to inhale and exhale the amniotic fluid that surrounds it within the amniotic...
...Pittsburgh University-educated pathologist also testified that the fetus died 26 weeks after it was conceived. The prosecution claims that the fetus was between 24 and 28 weeks old and could have lived if delivered at the time of the hysterotomy...