If parents may
abort a fetus with Down's syndrome — whether to make room for another baby, to spare it a life of possible frustration, or simply to avoid the expense and fatigue of caring for a retarded child — then they may also painlessly kill an infant.
Indian villagers have traditionally sought abortions for female fetuses; perhaps parents and societies will seek to
abort fetuses with a gay gene.
For example, the couple can not have «reasonable alternatives,» such as the option of selecting healthy embryos for in vitro fertilization (IVF) or using prenatal testing and
aborting a fetus with the disease.
Very recently, a rather limited number of retrospective studies, utilizing whole genome sequencing (Talkowski et al., 2012) or whole exome sequencing (WES) in small cohorts of neonates and
aborted fetuses with various ultrasound and / or post-mortem structural abnormalities (Carss et al., 2014; Drury et al., 2015; Alamillo et al., 2015; Westerfield et al., 2015), provided initial proof - of - principle of large - scale prenatal next generation sequencing (NGS).
Not exact matches
I replied
with how about when a mother (who has other children) requires medical care that will require the
fetus to be
aborted as a situation.
I do not find Russell E. Saltzman's essay «Two Boats, a Helicopter, and Stem Cells» (October 1999) entirely satisfying, although I have absolutely no quarrel
with the argument developed for his own decision to oppose the use of
aborted fetuses for stem cell research.
Using Comstock's pro-infanticide column as his launching pad, Coyne argues that if we can
abort a
fetus diagnosed
with serious health issues, we should also be allowed to kill born babies
with those conditions.
For some this stance can allow external methods of fertilization; for others experimentation
with embryos and still - living
aborted fetuses; for others, euthanasia for genetically disabled infants, the comatose or senile; and voluntary suicide.
The conflict between the mothers who choose not to
abort a Down syndrome child and these who do is salient at the Web site «The Ragged Edge,» where the mother of such a child expresses her disgust
with «A Heartbreaking Choice»: «In other words, their
fetuses had no value as imperfect living beings.
At least five songs were sung from the perspective of a
fetus who, endowed
with adult intelligence, knows that he or she is about to be
aborted; in one case, the
fetus asks Jesus to come into his (already beating) heart so he or she becomes a Christian before being killed.
What makes abortion «awful» is the shame and guilt caused by two heavily ideological notions that all women in the society still learn to some degree: (1) the association of
fetus with «baby» and the
aborting woman
with «bad mother,» and (2) the assumption that sex for pleasure is «wrong» (for women) and that women who indulge in it have to pay a price.
2) blood type has nothing to do
with how the child develops, outside the odd occurance of the RH factors being different and the mother's body (created by god according to you) attempts to
abort the foriegn body (
fetus) because it doesn't blend in
with the mother's defence systems.
I concluded the analysis of these two camps
with a quote from Dr. Vernon Grounds, president of Evangelicals for Social Action: «[The question of whether we should use
aborted fetuses for this kind of research] comes back to «Shall we do evil that good may come?
Pro-choice feminists who employ an essentialist argument against Robertson will have to deal
with an inconsistency, however: advocating freedom to choose to
abort is inconsistent
with the claim that the mother -
fetus bond is more fundamental than choice.
A society in which
fetuses with Down syndrome are routinely
aborted clearly believes that DS is a grave misfortune.»
Marcelo Rivolta of the University of Sheffield in the UK and colleagues extracted cochlear stem cells from
aborted fetuses,
with the consent of the women involved.
The policy, meanwhile, has created a population swollen
with tens of million «surplus» men from sex - selective abortions — pregnant women used ultrasound to scan the sex of the
fetus and
aborted if it was female.
Fetuses with the receptor were
aborted early in pregnancy, the team found.
Doctors led by Jean - Louis Touraine infused them through the umbilical vein
with blood stem cells from 7 - to 10 - week - old
aborted fetuses.
At issue this time is whether it would be ethical to use eggs from an
aborted fetus to provide an infertile woman
with a chance to have a child.
In theory, brain cells that have been killed by Parkinson's disease can be replaced
with cells from the brains of
aborted fetuses.
«It would be difficult for any child to come to terms
with having been created by
aborted fetuses.»
Males
with the chromosome disorder XYY were once thought to have a high risk of violent behaviour, and many XYY
fetuses were
aborted.
«There are many disorders we want to test for that don't involve a question of
aborting the
fetus, just providing the baby
with what it needs right when it's born,» Quake says.
One of Bill Clinton's first presidential decisions was to lift a ban on federal funding for research
with tissue from
aborted fetuses.
A bacterial infection that can betreated
with antibiotics, the disease can be transmitted sexually or otherwise; for example, groups of cattle often eat the placenta of a spontaneously
aborted fetus, and they can acquire the disease that way.
The centuries - old preference for boys, coupled
with the millions of
aborted female
fetuses, puts China at the top of countries where boys outnumber girls.
The local judge (Graf, The Brady Bunch Movie) in the small town is so fed up
with seeing her face, and the fact that she has had four children already (all of which had to be given up for adoption due to their mother's behavior), that when he discovers she is pregnant again decides to make law history and have her put in prison for endangering the life of her
fetus, making it clear he would be a bit more lenient
with her if she were to have it
aborted.
Pregnant dogs infected
with herpesvirus might
abort their
fetuses or deliver stillborn puppies.
Necropsy examination of a horse
with neurologic disease that dies or has to be euthanized, or necropsy examination of an
aborted fetus / fetal membranes.
I've put together some of my favorite emails into a small zine — some were quite incredible, like here's a dick pic, an artist statement, and some work or here's a video I made for a woman who
aborted the
fetus I wanted to have
with her.
... South London Gallery, she produced Everyone I Have Ever Slept
With 1963 — 1995 (1995; now destroyed), a tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had (literally) slept with, including her twin brother, her mother, and her two aborted fetuses, as well as assorted lov
With 1963 — 1995 (1995; now destroyed), a tent embroidered
with the names of everyone she had (literally) slept with, including her twin brother, her mother, and her two aborted fetuses, as well as assorted lov
with the names of everyone she had (literally) slept
with, including her twin brother, her mother, and her two aborted fetuses, as well as assorted lov
with, including her twin brother, her mother, and her two
aborted fetuses, as well as assorted lovers.
The Supreme Court of Brazil ruled that pregnant women carrying
fetuses with anencephaly can legally
abort them.
Planned Parenthood, which has repeatedly denied that it sells the parts of
aborted fetuses, took issue
with some of DeWine's findings.