Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lung. Gluck's research team discovered that the fetal lung generally matures around the 35th week of pregnancy. This development is signaled by a change in the amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus. At that point, the level of a phospholipid known as lecithin usually rises sharply and surpasses the level of another lipid, sphingomyelin. To determine if this has occurred normally, the Gluck test uses transabdominal amniocentesis, a technique that involves inserting a sterile needle through the abdomen into the womb, drawing off a sample of amniotic fluid and measuring the lipid levels...
Twice in New Jersey, however, courts have ordered vitally necessary blood transfusions for a fetus over the religious objections of the mother to such medical practice. The U.S. Supreme Court forced Mormons to abandon polygamy. For example...
Since human life begins at conception, every fetus has the right to live, even when the mother is pregnant by accident or rape. said Lynch, lecturer in Obstetrics at Boston College School of Nursing and past president of Carney Hospital...
...women who are more than twelve weeks pregnant. "These," he adds, "are the women who are really getting desperate, who need it most." It is difficult to get nurses to aid in abortions beyond the twelfth week, because the nurses, and often the doctors, emotionally assume that a large fetus is more human than a small...
...exhausted and spent, into the snow. (The two are, at the time, on an outing in the Swiss Alps.) In such circumstances, nature does not offer Gerald the salvation it provided Birken; the landscape into which Gerald wanders is barren and frigid. He collapses, curls up like a tiny fetus dwarfed by a field of grayish white, his darker footsteps trailing offscreen like an endless umbilical cord. The actual physical setting of Gerald's death is overshadowed by its implications of loneliness and sterility. Compared to the cluttered literalness of most of the film, these few, tentative steps toward approaching...