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...dozen prescription drugs are approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during pregnancy, and they're all pregnancy-related: drugs for inducing labor, for example, or epidural anesthesia. Which means patients with many common conditions face an excruciating dilemma: decline medication whose effects on a fetus may be largely unknown or take it and worry about the consequences...
...five pregnancy-related categories, with A being the safest and X being the least necessary (like Accutane, an acne treatment associated with birth defects). Category B has pretty positive safety data, and D encompasses chemotherapy and other drugs whose benefits may outweigh the risks to the fetus. And then there's Category C, which covers the mushy middle. Karen Feibus, who oversees the FDA's maternal-health team in the Office of New Drugs, estimates that this category contains nearly 70% of all drugs. In terms of safety data, "they can be very different, but many people think that...
...their first baby pictures were often taken in utero. I also wonder if younger women are now sure enough of their sexual autonomy and their choices generally that they don't view limits on abortion as attacks on their overall freedom. The calculation of rights subtly shifts, and the fetus, as it develops, asserts its claim on the conscience...
...course, anti-abortion activists have worked hard to make the issue more intimate. Nebraska is the latest state to debate what activists call "window to the womb" laws, which require that women be shown an ultrasound of the fetus before going ahead with an abortion. The Missouri Senate just passed a bill that would require doctors to talk about a fetus' development and its ability to feel pain. Opponents of "informed consent" laws that talk about fetal pain warn that doing so just causes the woman pain, and call it emotional blackmail. But there is no denying that the battleground...
...freshman, he made waves as a member of the College’s Right to Life club—designing controversial pro-life posters that featured pictures of an in utero fetus that sparked protest and debate about abortion discussion on campus...