Word: fetuses
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...abortion in an effort to promote a particular moral agenda. Firstly, the term “partial birth abortion” is not a term used by the medical community; it is one used by anti-abortion activists to stir up emotion. Similarly, she defines a 20-week-old fetus as a “child” based on its childlike physical features. Again, the medical community disagrees, as do those who hold different philosophical and religious beliefs about the definitions of infanthood...
...officially called dilation and extraction (D&X)—is rare, she claims it accounts for 1 percent of all abortions. This is an incorrect statistic; D&X procedures account for only 0.17 percent of all abortions. Such procedures are not performed on healthy women whose fetuses would be able to survive indefinitely outside the mother, as Ms. Itoh claims. They are generally only done if there are serious mental or physical health problems related to the pregnancy, such as the fetus suffering from a condition that would render it unable to live outside the womb. And although...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can be used to detect acute appendicitis in pregnant women, according to a study conducted by a team of Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors. Untreated acute appendicitis can be fatal to both the mother and fetus. Acute appendicitis is a rare condition, occurring in less than one percent of pregnant women and in about the same percentage of the general population, said Ivan Pedrosa, an assistant professor at HMS who worked on the study published in Consumer Health Daily. According to Pedrosa, many women experience abdominal pain while pregnant. Though the likelihood of a woman having...
...take place early in the pregnancy. I personally believe that life begins at conception, but I understand that to a lot of people, a fertilized egg is just a mass of cells. However, when it comes to partial-birth abortion, which involves partially delivering a 5-6 month old fetus before killing it, it is very difficult for me to stomach any argument for why such a procedure should ever be permitted, except to preserve the health of the mother. In 2000 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of this procedure, but then it was outlawed...
...What if your belly were transparent," he would ask, "and you could see the fetus as it grew? Do you think that would change your attitude...