Word: fetus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many would-be parents, the recent revolution in prenatal genetic testing has created agonizing dilemmas. If the tests reveal genetic abnormalities in the fetus, the mother and father must either have a handicapped child or resort to abortion. At best the choice is painful. For some, it is the worst kind of moral quandary...
...narrow margin between careers and parenthood. It carries echoes of When Harry Met Sally in the loving friendship of a thirtysomething mom (Kirstie Alley) and the cabdriver (John Travolta) who moonlights as baby-sitter. It has Hollywood's favorite premise, the fish out of water -- or, here, fetus out of womb. For the main character is a talking baby, in the worldly wise-guy voice of TV and movie star Bruce Willis...
...called pro-life groups ignore the possibility that a woman's lack of choice can give government or business the right to force women not to bear children. The following cases show that anti-choice can mean anti-life, for the fetus as well as for the woman...
...medical schools of four universities, including Harvard, this month began clinical testing for a four-year study of the transmission of AIDS from mother to fetus, doctors said yesterday...
...Women and Infants HIV Transmission Study (WITS) will examine the frequency of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus' transmission to fetus and its effect on the health of pregnant women and on the outcome of pregnancy, researchers said. The project will also chart the development of the disease in children...