Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mother had her choices about her sexuality. The fetus' only crime is its begrudged existence...
...picture of the anti-abortion assemblyman demonstrating his point to the New York state legislature by displaying a fetus in a jar was striking indeed. How righteously the antiabortionists would respond if someone presented on the house floor the preserved body of a young girl who had succumbed to sepsis from an abortion she could not obtain under sterile and controlled conditions...
...Terence Cardinal Cooke, Archbishop of New York, abortion was condemned from pulpits throughout the archdiocese. As debate on the repeal bill neared, busloads of antiabortionists arrived in Albany to demonstrate outside the Capitol. Some carried signs; others made speeches equating abortion with infanticide and upholding the right of the fetus to life. Some of the tactics went even further. State Senator Sidney von Luther, a black from Manhattan who supports the liberalized law, complained of middle-of-the-night telephone calls that "frightened my wife because the callers questioned her morality...
...checked by a special diet if the defect is immediately identified; 43 states now require a PK.U test at birth. Doctors can recognize the chromosomal flaw that causes mongolism and 27 of the genetic quirks known to cause retardation. More important, they can diagnose these in the fetus by amniocentesis. A needle is inserted into the uterus to draw off a sample of the fluid in which the fetus floats. The material is analyzed for extra or missing chromosomes or absent enzymes...
Folkman pointed out that the only tissues other than solid tumors in which he has found TAF are the placenta and the fetus...