Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week New York's legislature took essentially the same course. First, the Senate passed a comparable bill. Then the Assembly, in a cliffhanger session, approved the bill by the margin of a single vote out of 150, adding one restriction: after 24 weeks of pregnancy (when the fetus may have be come viable) an abortion can be performed only to save the mother's life. The Senate quickly accepted that sensible change, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller said that he would sign the bill...
...Hawaiian law is essentially what many physicians have been urging-so far, unsuccessfully-in several mainland states. It includes only minimal restrictions: the operation must involve a fetus that cannot live outside the womb (usually meaning less than 20 weeks of gestation); it must be performed by a licensed physician or surgeon (M.D. or doctor of osteopathy), and in a Government-licensed hospital. By comparison, the "liberalized" abortion laws passed by ten states, led by Colorado in 1967, require that each abortion must be approved by two or more disinterested physicians. All specify some medical need, such as the mother...
Common sense suggests that the safest way to induce an abortion is to use the hormone oxytocin, which nature produces when it is time for a fetus to leave the womb. But nature does not always abide by man's logic. Oxytocin in large doses can induce an abortion, but not until the 20th week of pregnancy. And most unwanted pregnancies should be ended no later than the 16th week. Until now this has required surgical intervention-scraping out the contents of the womb, which involves some risk of bleeding and infectious complications even in a well-run hospital...
...first, alarming and hideously painful migraine when taking the Pill. Among other "contraindications," as doctors call them, are diabetes, liver disease, breast cancer and possibly rheumatoid arthritis. Serious allegations against the Pill which cannot yet be proved or disproved are that it may cause genetic changes, or damage the fetus, as does thalidomide...
While people debate about abstract concepts like the soul of the fetus, the Walter Vandermeers, the Mrs. Prices and society all suffer...