Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more peaceful. The most important event is the quickening, when the developing infant's movements can first be felt and it begins to seem human. According to Deutscher, couples report playing with the wife's belly and "pushing it to call forth a response from the fetus." There is, he says, "a sense of hilarity and awe, of joking and solemnity and of some quality of respect" that is almost religious...
...indicates the cultural relativity of I.Q. tests. Herrnstein gives I.Q. an ontological status it does not possess. And in his discussion of the hereditary transmission of intelligence, Herrnstein deals inadequately with the effects of environment. For example, no one has measured the effects of the prenatal environment on the fetus. This factor alone casts a shadow of uncertainty on Herrnstein's "scientific" figures...
...members of the Harvard faculty have praised the scientific merit of Herrnstein's I.Q. article. A brief comment: At this time, there is no proper, scientific basis for disentangling the relative contributions of heredity and environment to intelligence. A large body of data shows that the nutrition of the fetus and young infant is very important in determining its later mental and physical traits. The structure of our health care delivery system is such that poor mothers and their infants, in general, get inadequate pre-natal and peri-natal care. Many more infants of poor mothers than of well...
...pleased enough that they have found "a place to grow" in appreciation of the Law. Orthodox Judaism, he insists, is a living religion, and its laws provide practical guides for behavior. On the issue of abortion, for instance, one must consider the rights of "potential life" (the fetus) and the usually more compelling rights of "present life" (the mother), both sacred under Jewish law. The rabbi must help the conscientious Jew decide which law takes precedence in the case at hand. It must be the Law-not individual whim-that decides, but it is a flexible, not a frozen code...
...great fear about abortion, among doctors and nurses as well as patients, is that a fetus will be born alive. Claims by anti-abortion groups that doctors routinely throw "screaming, wriggling bundles of humanity" into garbage cans are unfounded. But despite laws banning abortions after the 24th week, well before a fetus can survive outside the womb, "live births" do occur. The reason, often, is that the date of conception has been miscalculated or misstated by the woman. At least 40 fetuses have reportedly been born "alive" in New York. All died within hours, despite doctors' efforts to maintain...