Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dilemma becomes more acute she said, as the fetus becomes more stable. She suggested that abortions be permissible until the eighteenth week of pregnancy, but she expressed uncertainty about later abortions, inviting comments from the audience on this and other points...
...need for vitamins and other dietary supplements subscribe to some of her dietary dogmas. A number of nutritionists, for instance, are as critical as she of obstetricians who force pregnant women to control their weight stringently. That kind of dieting is frequently carried to extremes unhealthy for both the fetus and the mother...
...authorities continued the prosecution of the angel maker and of the other women as accomplices. The defense responded by attacking France's anti-abortion law, which forbids the operation except to save a woman's life. Nobel-prizewinning Biochemist Jacques Monod testified that, in his opinion, a fetus only a few weeks old could not be considered a "human being." Author Simone de Beauvoir denounced the law as an oppression of women, while Actresses Françoise Fabian and Delphine Seyrig said that they were equally guilty, since they too had had abortions...
...medications and diagnostic procedures are not fully understood, doctors are especially cautious when treating pregnant women, frequently altering prescriptions or deferring them altogether until after delivery. In the first month or two, however, some women are unaware that they have conceived. That ignorance can be costly, both to the fetus, which may be damaged by drugs or X rays, and to the physician or hospital, which may later be sued for malpractice. To avoid such problems, some doctors now recommend that all women of child-bearing age be tested routinely for pregnancy in a doctor's office or when...
...newsletter published by a group of authoritative physicians. The reason behind the suggestion is simple: a woman who has just had a baby is not likely to become pregnant again for at least two months (although contraception should still be continued), and is therefore equally unlikely to expose her fetus to the risk of congenital rubella. Rubella vaccination of young women at other times is hazardous because they may be pregnant and not know it, or may become pregnant while the virus used in the vaccine is still in their systems...