Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because his mother supported the establishment of an abortion-information clinic. Father Roussin and Monsignor Meehan have failed to grasp the basic moral premise of the prolife philosophy: the child, born or unborn, should never be discriminated against for the sins or misfortunes of his parents. For example, a fetus should not be punished by murder because his father was a rapist or his mother was pregnant out of wedlock. The fetus, and by extension the infant, is always considered innocent, blameless and deserving of protection...
...indictments capped a two-month investigation by the district attorney's office that was prompted by the publication of the paper, a study of the effect on a fetus of penicillin administered to the pregnant woman. The four defendants were not only charged with carrying off the tissue, but in a separate count with "aiding" the alleged transport. In a related case, Dr. Kenneth Edelin, chief obstetrician at BCH, was charged on the same day with manslaughter, in connection with the "death" of a 24-week-old fetus...
Since then, fetal research has been limited by the adoption this summer of a fetal-research bill by the Massachusetts legislature. This bill requires "parental consent" before a doctor may experiment on a fetus and prohibits both the culture of live fetal tissue after abortion and experimentation on a fetus while it is still in the womb...
...along the convoluted lining of the fallopian tube like a miniature moon over a mountain range. Sperm, their tails thrashing, cluster together like salmon awaiting a signal to leap a waterfall. Cells, pulsing with life, divide and reproduce. Finally, in a scene reminiscent of the fadeout of 2001, a fetus, its already human form visible through a transparent amniotic sac, fills the screen. These spectacular images (see following pages) are not the products of a Hollywood special effects department. They are frames from a half-hour film that dramatically shows the actual process of conception and the earliest stages...
...human volunteers were used for the crucial scenes. The sequences showing fetal development in the womb were filmed on location-in-the uterus of a woman scheduled to undergo an abortion for medical reasons. They show the fetal heart, the serrated outline of the fetal spine and, finally, the fetus itself...