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Peering deep into the womb of a pregnant woman, doctors have succeeded in exploring and filming-at a remarkably early stage of development-the secret world of the living human embryo. The results of their efforts are the dramatic highlight of an hour-long CBS television special, The Miracle Months, which will be broadcast on March 16 at 8 p.m. E.S.T. Written by Physician-Author Robert E. Fuisz, Miracle Months is a moving, prime-time tribute to recent spectacular progress in prenatal care-advances that enable doctors to salvage many pregnancies for which there was once little or no hope...
...doctors to save their endangered babies. Interspersed in their stories are sequences tracing the baby's development from the moment of its creation and the division of its first few cells through its amazingly rapid growth into a full fetus and finally to its emergence from the womb. Even in the earliest stages of pregnancy, the embryo is amazingly babylike. By the ninth week the fetus is kicking and wiggling, though it is so small-only a few inches long-that its mother cannot feel any movements. Its sex can be recognized, and at one point it seems...
...whipping and crucifixion. Chip Durgom, a small, bearded man of 28, stars in The Astronaut, a sketch involving a woman's fantasy about shrinking a man to the height of only a few inches, which then shades into a man's fantasy about returning to the womb. In a chicken fantasy, Durgom plays a squawking bird about to be roasted and carved by Big Mama. Like much of the show, the chicken scene is played broadly for laughs...
...questions at world leaders, Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci has turned philosopher-novelist. Her new book, Letter to a Child Never Born, to be published in English next month by Simon & Schuster, is the monologue of a nameless, husbandless professional delivered to her unborn child. The baby dies in the womb, but not before its mother probes her own motives for childbearing and the infant's right to be born. "This is a story about a doubt, the biggest of all-whether or not to bring a human being into the world," says Fallaci, 46. Is the iconoclast revealing...
...live birth rested on a confusing and contradictory welter of evidence. Both at the trial and at the appeal last April, Assistant District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan drowned his argument in emotionalism. Flanagan could not refute the overwhelming evidence that the fetus never lived outside the mother's womb, but he could shout, as he did at the appeal, that "this is the case of a child that was born." And even given his contention that a child had been born, Flanagan could not prove that the alleged human life was viable or that Edelin had intentionally harmed...