Word: fetuses
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HEALTH: Is taking sonographic snapshots of your fetus safe...
...voters that embryonic stem-cell cloning is "unpromising for cures" and offers "a gateway to all kinds of possible genetic engineering in humans." Although the California measure would initially limit research to embryos less than 12 days old, Doerflinger contends it could lead to "the exploitation of women as 'fetus farms.'" Such arguments have persuaded eight states, including Iowa, Michigan and Kansas, to restrict therapeutic-cloning research. More dramatically, the U.S. House passed legislation last year that would make cloning human cells a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The bill stalled in the Senate, in part...
Anti-abortion activists’ posters begin by shouting that abortion is gruesome. There is no doubt that an aborted fetus is not a pretty thing. However, the widely circulated pictures of dismembered, highly-developed fetuses are deceptive because they imply that all or even most abortions are late-term abortions. In fact, according to 1999 statistics collected by the Alan Guttmacher institute, 88.1 percent of abortions in the United States are done within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion done during the first trimester is one of the most common surgical procedures in the United States...
...second claim made by anti-abortion activists is that God hates women who get abortions. There are multiple religious positions on the moral justification of abortions. Some interpretations say that abortions are justified until the fetus could be viable outside the womb. Many say that abortion is justified in cases where the life of the mother would be in danger, or in cases of rape or incest. For those who go for evolutionary justifications, some would say that abortions are justified when the woman would be more likely to go on to have more children at a later point...
...political fabrication used to conjure a false image of crying babies being killed by evil doctors. The bill’s title loosely refers to an extremely rare medical procedure that is used as a last resort in the second or third trimester of a pregnancy, mostly when the fetus is already dead or when the mother’s life is in danger. Women’s rights advocates fear that the legislation will prevent doctors from performing partial birth abortions, even when the procedure is the safest way to protect a woman’s life. In their...