Sentences with phrase «part of the fetus»

His language is graphic: «In a D&E procedure, the physician inserts forceps into the uterus, grasps a part of the fetus, commonly an arm or a leg, and draws that part out of the uterus into the vagina.

These antibodies are an essential part of the fetus's immune system.

Not exact matches

For a more current look at what happens when abortion is severely restricted, we looked to Brazil, where abortion is illegal except in cases of rape, when the mother's life is in danger, and in the rare instances of anencephaly, a severe fetal anomaly in which the fetus lacks parts of the brain, leaving the infant with virtually no chance of survival.

While DNA does most of it, all fetuses start out female and the combined influence of DNA and the fetal environment turns about half pf them male during the pregnancy, and some only part of the way between the two.

Is the human intellectual concept of personhood applied to an anencephelic fetus, and which ones with all the various genetic variations of the condition where the fetus has no brain, or part of a brain?

At Psalms 139, the man David was inspired to write that «your (God's) eyes saw even the embryo (comprising 56 days) of me, and in your book all its (the human body) parts were down in writing (our DNA), as regards the days when they were not formed (before becoming a fetus), and there was not yet one (complete organ) among them.»

They say further that even if one does not equate a fetus with a child, as long as one attributes some value to the fetus» and they demonstrate how economists routinely make such outrageous calculations in insurance claims for loss of body parts» and put the value as low as one hundredth of a human being, the lowered crime rate would not come near justifying the number of abortions.

I especially do not understand the meddling on the part of Christians who would tell you that they believe aborted fetuses go to heaven, anyway.

Catholic social teaching says that fetuses are people - the argument is part of the church's strong pro-life and anti-abortion positions.

Of course an inviable fetus is a part of a woman's bodOf course an inviable fetus is a part of a woman's bodof a woman's body.

Thus some advocates of abortion on demand are now admitting that the fetus might very well be more than a part of the body of its mother but, nevertheless, because it is dependent on its mother for its life, she has the right to end that life if it interferes with the exercise of her own personal liberty.

The intelligence of the fetus plays no essential part in this experience.

In the end, however, Feezell's moderate view (which leans toward the «conservative view») is not too much different in practical effect from my or Hartshorne's moderate view (which leans toward the «liberal view») in that I am only delivering a carte blanche for abortion in the early stages of pregnancy and pointing out that the fetus in the later stages of pregnancy has a moral status analogous to that of an animal, a status which I think deserves considerable attention on our part.

For a summary of some of the scientific research which supports the view that the fetus is not a prepackaged human being (e.g., even something so relatively simple as a fingerprint arises at least in part due to chance events not present in a fertilized egg) see Charles Gardner, «Is an Embryo a Person?

Nucatola admits that abortion providers will sometimes move the fetus into breech orientation so as to preserve more intact body parts, which is a mark of illegal partial - birth abortion.

You as a man could simply walk away at any time, but a fetus is part of a woman's body.

seeing the fetus shares half the mother's genetic coding, i would say it is part of her body.

They grow up with a belief about the nature of the embryo, so events in their lives lead them 10 believe that the embryo is a unique person, or a fetus; that people are intimately tied to their biological roles, or that these roles are but a minor part of life: that motherhood is the most important and satisfying role open to a woman, or that motherhood is only one of several roles, a burden when defined as the only role.

For example, it is grimly apparent that the remains of aborted fetuses may have great value in medical experimentation, as well as being a potential source of medicine and even spare parts for transplants.

It's now known that cells from a developing fetus cross the placenta, allowing the baby's DNA to become part of the mother's body.

A defect means that the fetus could be born with anencephaly and spinal bifida, which means part of the brain is missing.

Meanwhile, an independent group of 38 BPA researchers who were not part of the panel but are considered experts on the chemical issued their own warning in the journal Reproductive Toxicology: Very low levels of exposure to the chemical can potentially pose adverse health effects, especially to a fetus.

Part of the Division of Maternal - Fetal Medicine, the Reproductive Genetics Service was created to help women with medical conditions encountered or made worse by a pregnancy or whose prenatal testing reveals a birth defect or genetic condition in the fetus.

The fetus itself acquires standard shapes and sizes of the body parts.

There is, however, some controversy here, because when researchers stuck microphones in pregnant women's uteruses for a 1990 study I'm glad I wasn't a part of, they found that fetuses are exposed to between 72 and 88 decibels of baseline noise in the womb — the latter being about as loud as the maximum output of the white - noise machines tested in the study.

Also, although fish and shellfish can be an extremely healthy part of your pregnancy diet (they contain beneficial omega - 3 fatty acids and are high in protein and low in saturated fat), you should avoid eating certain kinds due to high levels of mercury, which can damage the brain of a developing fetus.

Note that some have such view for religious reasons, some have such view for purely scientific ones (e.g., for a fetus in a stage late enough that it would have survived in nICU if delivered prematurely, it's hard to make an argument that merely being attached to a placenta and not to nICU life support somehow turns the fetus from a live human being to «perfectly fine to surgically excise part of mother's body».

Dozens of Central New Yorkers gathered on the lawn in front of the East Genesee Street offices of Planned Parenthood in Syracuse Tuesday, saying they were spurred into action by undercover videos of the agency's executives apparently talking about the sale of body parts culled from aborted fetuses for medical research.

A central New York congressman, who has long supported Planned Parenthood, is calling for an investigation into the agency, in light of the videos showing Planned Parenthood officials apparently discussing how the group provides researchers body parts from aborted fetuses.

This prenatal work is part of a growing body of research to better understand how the human brain develops across its lifespan, from fetus to old age.

When the fetuses touched themselves, on the other hand, they were less cautious (although they approached their own eyes and mouth more gingerly than other parts of their body).

Although fetuses start forming pain receptors eight weeks into development, the thalamus, the part of the brain that routes information to other areas, doesn't form for 20 more weeks.

This allows us to define in a very broad sense what proteins, nucleic acids, pathogens, and toxins might be part of the milieu of the fetus.

Now researchers in Georgia think they have at least part of the answer: while the mother's body nourishes the fetus, the placenta may actually disable her immune cells by robbing them of a key nutrient.

If a mother ha sY - chromosomal DNA in her blood, it's a good bet it came from cells that were originally part of a male fetus.

It also urges «a ban on human cloning» and «a ban on the use of body parts from aborted fetuses for research.»

Lead scientist, Dr Kelsey, said: «We are only beginning to unravel the details of the connection between epigenetics and egg development, a fundamental aspect of biology that may play a part in transmitting information from mother to fetus.

These studies were done with the knowledge that the embryo and fetus develop under the control of hormones at parts per billion and parts trillion, and that as the baby matures hormone concentrations are regulated by sensitive, thermostat - like, feedback control systems in the brain.

It may seem implausible that fetuses can listen to speech within the womb, but the sound - processing parts of their brain become active in the last trimester of pregnancy, and sound carries fairly well through the mother's abdomen.

How the placenta passes nutrients from mother to fetus depends in part on the activity of insulin — a circulating hormone that tells fat and muscle cells to absorb glucose and other nutrients from the blood.

A specimen of the ancient horse Eurohippus messelensis has been discovered in Germany that preserves a fetus as well as parts of the uterus and associated tissues.

And discounting some of the aforementioned gaps in logic in part of its premises, certain plot details are really satisfying, such as a coroner's examination of a dead angel (in recently transmogrified human form) that uncovers its biological composition to be similar to that of an aborted fetus, as well as technically hermaphroditic.

In Jewish theological writing the fetus is thought to be part of its mother and not a person until it is born.

Logically, the parts removed in spaying are the parts of female cats» reproductive tract which is responsible and has a job for egg or ova production, embryo and fetus development, and also the secretion of female reproductive hormones such as estrogen and progesterone.

To sue a pregnant woman on behalf of her unborn fetus therefore posits the anomaly of one part of a legal and physical entity suing itself.

Negligence in many forms may result in the death of a fetus and resulting liability for the death on the part of those whose negligence was a cause of the death.

Birth traumas occur during the process of childbirth through, for example, the compression or prolapse of the umbilical cord, nuchal cord, or the pressure on a fetus's head or other parts of the body as the fetus passes through the birth canal.

The failure by medical personnel assisting in a child's birth to adequately monitor the vital signs of the mother and fetus in order to timely recognize the existence of fetal distress may be found to constitute actionable negligence and liability on the part of such personnel if this negligence is determined to have been a cause of the child's HIE injury.

You can only sue for pain and suffering if your injury results in one of these examples: a body part loss, major disfigurement or scarring, a displaced fracture, a loss of a fetus, permanent injury to a body part or organ such that it can't heal normally, and death.

Planned Parenthood, which has repeatedly denied that it sells the parts of aborted fetuses, took issue with some of DeWine's findings.