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...food I could eat, pre-natal life was a breeze. But the obstetrician’s vacation schedule and my mother’s impatience meant my life in the womb had to end. I screamed as my own mother evicted me from her cozy uterus...
...theory, it would be possible to clone a person by implanting that person’s cloned embryo in a woman’s uterus. Numerous animal studies indicate, however, that it is unlikely to work in the sense of producing normal individuals. Aside from the scientific limitations, responsible policy choices can eliminate the possibility of reproductive cloning in practice. Given simple and strict legislation and oversight, the line between reproductive cloning and nuclear transfer is clear and enforceable. Just because someone might abuse a technology to do harm against all odds and in defiance of the law surely should...
...abortion is available, the more likely the percentage of early-term abortions will go up and late-term abortions go down. The emergency contraceptive pill, a pill that can be taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex to prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the wall of the uterus, is an even more promising way of enabling women to prevent pregnancy before it has technically begun. Late-term abortions are generally done only in cases when the baby would not have been viable at birth because of severe birth defects, or because the life of the mother...
Careful examination showed that the infant had one testis, what looked like a small penis and no uterus or vagina. Genetic tests did not make things any clearer: some of the child's cells contained the XX chromosome pairing typically seen in girls, others contained the XY pattern seen in boys, and some had but a single X chromosome, commonly seen in girls with a condition called Turner syndrome...
...scientist, he embraced the logic of hypnobirthing: if women are terrified of childbirth, the fight-or-flight reflex kicks in once the contractions start. This reflex shuts down organs that are nonessential to fighting and fleeing, including the uterus. With reduced blood flow, the uterus cramps, causing pain. If women could relax, the theory goes, they would experience no pain, have more effective contractions and therefore a shorter labor...