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...villi sampling (CVS), is a painless procedure and can be done in a physician's office as early as the fifth week of pregnancy. To perform it, the obstetrician inserts a long thin tube through the vagina into the uterus. A second doctor, following the procedure on an ultrasound monitor, helps the obstetrician position the catheter between the lining of the uterus and the chorion, a layer of tissue that surrounds the embryo during the first two months and later develops into the placenta. The goal is to suction up a sample of the chorionic villi, finger-like projections...
...recent medical advances, however, should lessen these problems. The first is the use of ultrasound scanning. High-frequency-sound-wave tests, given to many expectant mothers to check fetal development, can detect a cleft palate if administered in the last few weeks before birth. Devised by doctors at the Women's Hospital in Houston, the method may provide unpleasant information, but, says Dr. H. William Porterfield, president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, "at least parents have the opportunity to plan for what can and should be done in an atmosphere of reasonable calm...
Because she was 41 when she became pregnant and thus ran a higher risk of complications than younger women, Rosa Skinner, a housewife in San Mateo, Calif., was sent by her obstetrician to the prenatal diagnosis clinic of the University of California-San Francisco. Ultrasound scans showed that she was bearing twins, a boy and a girl. At 28 weeks the female fetus seemed normal, but the male's kidneys and bladder were swollen with fluid backed up in the urinary tract...
...promise, fetal surgery poses some difficult ethical dilemmas. Says Roy Filly, an ultrasound specialist who works with Harrison: "Even if the mother wants to have the baby, what do you do if you open up the womb and find the problem is much worse than you feared? Do you save the baby, even though it may be severely handicapped and require extensive lifelong medical care?" Fetal surgery also touches directly on the question of when life begins, a central issue in the debate over abortion. Says Dr. Leonie Watson, a pro-life advocate in San Francisco: "If they...
...pregnancy continued uneventfully. "The mother looked forward to the birth as a delightful event, and the other aspect didn't bother her," Kerenyi said. Fortnightly ultrasound scans showed the aborted fetus withering away while the live twin grew. Twenty weeks after the abortion, the woman went into labor. She delivered the dead fetus, by this time a paper-thin collection of cells, and a healthy...