Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technological advance that affects the fate of Mongoloid children is the development of amniocentesis. This method of determining if a fetus has genetic defects by analyzing fluid drawn from the amniotic sac during pregnancy was developed during the early 1960s to detect blood type incompatability between the mother and her child...
...only is the fetus not truly human, but according to Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, neither is the newborn, until molded by social and cultural influences. Presumably then we may take the life of the newborn any time before this molding is complete. After how much molding? One hour? One week? One year...
...attending physician." After the first trimester, a state may "regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health," for instance by requiring hospitalization. But to demand that a panel of doctors okay the abortion, said Blackmun, is an unconstitutional complication. Only after the fetus has developed enough to have a chance of survival on its own-usually during the seventh month-may a state "regulate and even proscribe abortion except where it is necessary. . .for the preservation or health of the mother...
...indivisible part of every American's "liberty," which is specifically protected by the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment. Such a protection, he indicated, more than overcomes any state interest in using abortion statutes-as so many states have-to regulate sexual conduct, however indirectly. A fetus, he added, is not a person under the Constitution and thus has no legal right to life -a conclusion that countless antiabortionists violently object to. Blackmun was also swayed by the fact that most abortion prohibitions were enacted in the 19th century when the procedure was more dangerous than...
...believes that society has a "social responsibility" toward pregnant women: it must protect the "mission of motherhood against the clamors of individuals or of social movements. To give this mission over completely to individual choice oversteps the order of nature." Others disagree. According to Reform Rabbi Israel Margolies, a fetus "is literally part of its mother's body, and belongs only to her and her mate...