Sentences with phrase «with anencephaly»

The Supreme Court of Brazil ruled that pregnant women carrying fetuses with anencephaly can legally abort them.

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

[24] Stumpf, et al., «The Infant with Anencephaly,» The New England Journal of Medicine, 322, no. 10 (8 March 1990): 670, report that «it may not be possible in all cases to distinguish anencephaly from other very severe anomalies of the head... For purposes of genetic and reproductive counseling and epidemiologic reporting, the diagnosis should be confirmed by an experienced observer following delivery of an abortus or stillborn infant.»

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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.

Anencephaly is a condition in which an infant is born with a fully or partially functioning brain stem but without any cerebral hemispheres (higher brain).

When taken prior to pregnancy, prenatal vitamins with folic acid can help drastically reduce the incidence of neural tube defects like spina bifida and anencephaly.

Birth defects associated with antibiotics that are within Category X include anencephaly, which means a fatal malformation of the skull and brain, choanal atresia, which means a blockage of the nasal passage, transverse limb deficiency, diaphragmatic

In the United States, approximately 1,200 pregnancies are affected by anencephaly and 1,500 babies are born with spina bifida each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

One - half lower risk of anencephaly, a neural - tube defect that interferes with brain development and often results in miscarriage

The majority of the late term abortion in Canada is reserved for mothers of babies with lethal abnormalities, most commonly anencephaly (is a human without a functioning brain a person?)

The FDA has required the maker of Depakote to include a strong black box warning alerting doctors and patients to the potential for life - threatening side effects associated with Depakote use including serious birth defects such as anencephaly (brainless babies) and spina bifida.

Birth defect that have been linked to Zoloft include: • Various kinds of heart valve defects • Hole in the heart • Spina bifida • Cranofacial defects • Neural tube defects • Craniosynostosis - a skull defect • Club foot • Omphalocele - causes the abdominal organs and intestines to stick out through the belly button • Anencephaly - a child is born with a brain or skill that has parts missing.