Word: gyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outcry. The public outcry over fetal research began last spring, when Oh. Gyn. News, a semimonthly newsletter for obstetricians and gynecologists, reported that the NIH was nearing a decision that would permit funding of such projects. The story generated a storm of controversy among physicians, scientists, lawyers and theologians, many of whom argued that aborted fetuses are beings so close to living humans that the idea of experimenting on them is morally repugnant. Nowhere did it arouse more anger than at the exclusive Stone Ridge Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md. A group of students there...