Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, there are ways to trim back Roe without reversing it. Blackmun's majority opinion in Roe ruled that while women a right to "personal liber ty," the fetus has no rights its own until it can live outside the womb. The decision relied heavily on medical evidence that the fetus was not viable until about the seventh month of pregnancy, the third trimester. But recent advances in in fant care challenge that decade-old assumption. "It is certainly reasonable to believe that fetal viability in the first trimester of pregnancy may be possible in the not too distant...
...would protect homosexual conduct, he concluded. Some experts think that Bork would vote to reverse Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on the ground that a woman's constitutional right to privacy outweighs the rights of a fetus until it can live outside the womb...
...sperm, or a donor's egg may be fertilized with the husband's sperm, or, in yet another scenario, the husband and wife contribute their sperm and egg, but the resulting embryo is carried by a third party who is, in a sense, donating the use of her womb. "The possibilities are limited only by your imagination," observes Clifford Grobstein, professor of biological science and public policy at the University of California, San Diego. Says John Noonan, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley: "We really are plunging into the Brave New World...
...least two to eight cells in size, it is placed in the woman's uterus. During this procedure, which requires no anesthetic, Steptoe likes to have the husband present talking to his wife. "The skill of the person doing the replacement is very important," he says. "The womb doesn't like things being put into it. It contracts and tries to push things out. We try to do it with as little disturbance as possible...
...from the center of the galaxy, astronomers were sure that the bulge of dust was a maternity ward for new stars. Now the strange arc has revealed itself as one mighty source of those waves, raising the startling possibility that the middle of the Milky Way is a barren womb. Seeking to solve the mysteries, astronomers will return to the Very Large Array again and again, tracking the motion of the gas within the filaments and possibly the origins of the dynamo at the core of the galaxy, where the answer to many questions may be revealed...