Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nurse is trained to do all in her power to save a premature infant, no matter how defective or fragile it may be. When a fetus is aborted, however, a nurse is required to discard it-no matter how well-formed and active it appears. This paradox has already caused acute emotional problems-anxiety, insomnia and depression-among nurses in Hawaii, which a year ago became the first state to legalize abortion on request. At a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatrists Walter Char and John McDermott of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine reported that nurses...
...PRESENT, THE woman who learns through amniocentesis that she is carrying a seriously deformed fetus has only two choices: abortion or the heartbreak of delivering a hopelessly defective infant. But the mother whose unborn baby is found to have one of several hereditary enzyme deficiencies has a more acceptable alternative, for medicine has developed techniques for treating many such illnesses. An amniotic test for fetal lung maturity, for example, has helped warn doctors when a child may be born with hyaline membrane disease, which blocks proper breathing. In those cases, birth can be delayed by sedation until tests show...
...labeled the "C particle," is a part of everyone's genetic heritage, a tiny bit of RNA that is passed vertically from one generation to another and perhaps helps normal development by causing the cells of an embryo to grow. The C particle should become inactive as the fetus matures; if it fails to do so, the result is the rapid cell growth that characterizes cancer...
...genes. But even so complex a trait as intelligence may eventually come under the control of molecular biologists. Some scientists fantasize that super-geniuses will some day be produced by increasing brain size, through either genetic manipulation or through transplantation of brain cells to newborn infants or to the fetus in the womb. (Such cells might be synthesized in the laboratory or developed by taking bits of easily accessible tissue from a contemporary Newton or Mozart and inducing them to turn into brain neurons...
...current example illustrates the problem. Amniocentesis can now quite accurately predict whether a fetus is mongoloid; women carrying such abnormal fetuses are now encouraged, where it is legal, to have abortions. Already a number of medical planners are pointing up the cost-effectiveness of abortion in those cases. Unless the birth rate of mongoloid children is reduced, their care by 1975 may well cost some $1.75 billion nationally...