Word: fetuses
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...Conflicting reports from the private and public sectors question the safety of certain types of fish, particularly tuna, which may, according to some studies, contain enough mercury to damage a developing fetus. For millions of women who count on fresh or canned tuna as an easy and inexpensive source of protein, this is very bad news indeed...
...list to include tuna, sea bass, Gulf Coast oysters, marlin, halibut, pike, walleye, white (Pacific) croaker and largemouth bass. According to a joint report from the groups, "The odds are greater than one in 1,000 that consumption of a single meal of these fish will expose the fetus to a potentially hazardous amount" of mercury. The report goes on to list "safe" fish, including farm-raised trout, farm-raised catfish, shrimp, fish sticks, summer flounder, wild Pacific salmon, croaker, mid-Atlantic blue crab and haddock...
...lifers are using the study in their ongoing war against fetal-cell research of any kind. Says Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas: "Not only are you destroying one human being [the fetus], you may be destroying two." A few scientists called for such operations to be halted immediately, and some nonscientists wondered why they had ever been done in the first place...
...vicariously. Cloning is just another reproductive tool; the fact that it is not a perfect tool, in Pence's view, should not mean it should be outlawed altogether. "We know there are millions of girls who smoke and drink during pregnancy, and we know what the risks to the fetus are, but we don't do anything about it," he notes. "If we're going to regulate cloning, maybe we should regulate that...
...necessity of communal living also makes RU-486 particularly objectionable on a college campus. This chemical will make abortions less private and cause a woman's decision to adversely affect those who live around her. After all, living with a roommate who is in the process of miscarrying her fetus in a communal bathroom necessarily affects all of those around, and the private pain that is endured by the formerly-pregnant student is transmuted into a public concern...