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...carrying a male child, doctors use a technique called fetoscopy to obtain a sample of the baby's blood. They make an incision in the woman's abdomen, then insert a tubular fiber-optic device to locate one of the baby's blood vessels on the placenta. Using a tiny needle, they withdraw a few drops of the baby's blood, which is analyzed by radioimmunoassay techniques for factor VIII. To date, investigators have used the experimental procedure on eight women, all of whom had family histories of severe hemophilia. In four cases the tests showed...
William P. Homans Jr. '41, Edelin's lawyer, said after the trial that his client was convicted because the jury was convicted that a fetus should be considered alive after it has been separated from the mother's placenta inside the womb...
...Main Street Ms. America pays $2 for simple moisturizers and cleansers, the more affluent are willing to drop $235 on the complete La Prairie line of five Swiss-made "miracle" creams and lotions that are sold at some department stores. The $70 Treatment Cream contains live cells from sheep placenta, ostensibly to retard aging. Probably the most successful of the full lines is Estée Lauder's Clinique, consisting of seven products concocted with the help of dermatologists and priced from $6.50 to $7.50 each. In many department stores, the Clinique counter resembles a laboratory, where the saleswomen...
Homans said yesterday he believes Edelin was convicted because the jury had been influenced to decide that a fetus could be considered alive after it is separated from the placenta inside the uterus...
...Breath. These studies are backed up by animal research, which shows that ethanol, the intoxicating ingredient in liquor, is capable of causing birth defects in chicks and rats. Studies of the fetuses of alcoholic mothers also reveal that ethanol easily crosses the placenta from mother to child. Smith reports that the amniotic fluid that had surrounded one of the babies he examined had a definite odor of ethanol. A second baby born to an alcoholic mother emerged from the womb with the smell of ethanol on his breath. A third was in even worse shape. At birth, his blood contained...