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...entire phenomenon might even be working on a more telescoped time frame. Some scientists have suggested that the womb of a mother who is malnourished during pregnancy may simulate "famine-like" conditions for the fetus. That may "predispose the baby to hoard nutrients," explains Paul Zimmet, professor of diabetes at Monash University. "Those changes persist in adult life and are reflected in obesity or diabetes...
...fetuses would be able to survive indefinitely outside the mother, as Ms. Itoh claims. They are generally only done if there are serious mental or physical health problems related to the pregnancy, such as the fetus suffering from a condition that would render it unable to live outside the womb. And although the gestational age at which a fetus is able to survive outside the womb is considered to be 23-26 weeks, infants born before 32 weeks are at significant risk for long-term medical problems, including retinal damage, intestinal problems, and cerebral palsy...
...exactly what partial-birth abortion involves. By the fifth month, the child’s head is so large that it is not possible to completely deliver the baby – so the physician delivers a baby to the point where only the head remains inside the womb but then punctures the back of the skull to remove the brain. Despite the gruesomeness of this procedure, there are still people who believe that a woman should have the right to choose to have a partial-birth abortion. They argue that this procedure is rare, it only accounts...
...unfortunately, I don’t think I will find many job openings for a video game beta tester or owner of the Boston Red Sox. I get nervous when I hear other students talk about their future careers as if they were I-Banking while still in the womb. Walk into the Coop these days and all you see are books with titles like (I am not making this up): “Sell Yourself!: Master the Job Interview Process.” As a twenty-year-old college student, I had no idea that...
...taking the journey to get there. This sense was heightened when I got married and got pregnant the first time, by which time technology had made the philosopher's hypothetical real: I heard the heartbeat, strained to see the image on the ultrasound, made out the features, like my womb had a window-and grieved at a miscarriage. If life, at this tiny, unimaginable stage, was a life worth mourning, was it not one worth respecting, and protecting as well? And then when my daughters did come, and the abortion question refracted through both the miracle of their births...