Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expectant mother possesses the stamina and desire to jog, cross- country ski or otherwise kick up her heels during a normal pregnancy, she may do so without risk to herself or her fetus, the latest evidence suggests...
...their job (and their insurance), they may never get another. A report by the National Academy of Sciences last year found that Americans are already losing their jobs and health insurance based on information uncovered in genetic screens. In one case, a California health maintenance organization discovered that the fetus a client was carrying had the gene for cystic fibrosis. The HMO told her it would pay for an abortion, but that if she chose to have the child, it would not pay for any treatments. The woman had the child, and the threat of a lawsuit forced...
...Edinburgh researcher sparked an international ethical debate with his suggestion that women who cannot provide viable eggs of their own might be able to become pregnant with ovaries transplanted from aborted female fetuses. At 10 weeks, a female fetus has made all the eggs she will carry as a woman. Dr. Roger Gosden reported that he has used the technique successfully in mice and that the possibility of an experiment in humans is just a few years away...
Imagine going to an abortion clinic and waking up days later handcuffed to a bed in a basement where you will be held prisoner until it is too late to get an abortion. You are the captive of a Christian underground prepared to do anything to protect a fetus' rights, even kidnap you, take you hundreds of miles from home and "document" your experience as an unwilling mother. Your captors mean to use you as a public test case proving they know what is best. Indeed, you were chosen specifically because you were raped -- the rape victim has always been...
...idea is headline simple: if genetic testing allowed parents to know that their child in the womb would probably grow up gay, would they abort the fetus and try again for a straight one? To make the decision tougher, Tolins gives the prospective mother (Jennifer Grey) a beloved brother (an engagingly prickly Raphael Sbarge) who is flamboyantly...