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From 4-D Ultrasound Imagery to Revolutionary In Utero Surgery, Advanced Technology Takes You Into the Womb WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- From the moment of conception, every human embryo embarks on an incredible nine-month odyssey of development fraught with uncertainty. Now, cutting-edge technology makes it possible to open a window into the hidden world of the fetus and explore each trimester in amazing new detail. On Sunday, March 6, 2005, at 8 p.m. ET/ 9 p.m. PT, the National Geographic Channel (NGC) presents "In the Womb," a two-hour special that uses the latest advances in technology to take viewers on...

There Are No Loopholes in Law to Prosecute the Sale of Baby Body Parts Crime/Corruption News Keywords: FETAL BODY PARTS AND ABORTION Source: Covenant Published: 04/03/00 Author: Jim Rudd Posted on 04/05/2000 07:07:59 PDT by truthandlife Remember the law that makes it a felony to purchase or sell aborted baby parts for profit? It's part of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993. You would think with all of the pro-life lobbying groups in Washington, D.C., we would be hearing a multitude of voices crying out from the rooftops demanding a nationwide investigation to bring these baby...

Jegley Compares CA, AR Fetal Killings Wednesday, June 25, 2003 Good Morning! 5:19:51 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jegley Compares CA, AR Fetal Killings -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Story by The Associated Press Posted 6/24/2003 12:21:45 PM A prosecutor says he's not upset to see the difference in news coverage between the deaths of a California woman and her unborn child and a similar case involving the death of a fetus in Arkansas. Pulaski County prosecutor Larry Jegley says intense publicity for the Arkansas case would have complicated his job and made it more difficult to imprison the four men accused here. The deaths of Laci...

REDWOOD CITY -- Scott Peterson was convicted Friday of murdering his pregnant wife and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay -- the conclusion to a case prosecutors portrayed as a cold-blooded attempt to escape marriage and fatherhood for the pleasures of a bachelor life. Jurors found the former fertilizer salesman guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Laci, and guilty of second-degree murder in the death of the fetus she carried.

Focusing on the foetus unfairly obscures the context of a hard decision, writes Leslie Cannold. The documentary by the British filmmaker Julia Black, My Foetus, won't screen in Australia until August 8, but debate has already begun about whether the film should be censored and the impact it will have on abortion politics. The film, made while Black was pregnant with her first child, reconsiders an abortion she had over a decade earlier. It shows a woman, four weeks' pregnant, having a suction termination, as well as foetal remains at 10-, 11- and 21-weeks' gestation. The filmmaker claims, in an...

Pro-lifers, FREEP this poll... What legal rights should fetuses have? http://www.msnbc.com/news/920645.asp?0cb=-114159717

<p>WASHINGTON -- Baby Girl Vogt died years ago on a California mountain road, a ghastly step in the legal path that permits Scott Peterson to be charged with murdering his unborn son.</p> <p>In a country where legal abortions are commonplace, fetal protections can only be described as complex. These complexities and conflicts are highlighted when, as in the Peterson case, police charge someone with murdering the not-yet-born.</p>

<p>ERIE, Pa.  — A judge has upheld murder charges against a woman accused of killing the fetus of a romantic rival, rejecting defense arguments that Pennsylvania's fetal homicide law conflicts with abortion rights.</p> <p>Corinne Wilcott had argued that she couldn't be charged with murder if the state didn't consider the fetus to be a person.</p>

"Promise of Adult Stem Cells Put in Doubt," proclaimed UPI. "Study Deals Blow to Abilities of Adult Stem Cells," declared Scientific American in its online publication. "Study Finds Adult Blood Stem Cells Will Not Transform into Other Tissue Cells," insisted the Associated Press. The fuss concerns an article in the highly respected journal Science detailing efforts of Stanford researchers to trace the development of blood stem cells after placing them into mice whose bone marrow had been destroyed. They reported that blood stem cells replenished marrow but appeared worthless for creating other tissues."Blood-forming stem cells from adults make blood," primary...

A pioneering Johns Hopkins stem cell expert and one of the institution's leading bioethicists have won a multi-year grant from the Greenwall Foundation to develop far-reaching recommendations on a "second generation" of ethical questions about stem cell research. John D. Gearhart, Ph.D., and bioethicist Ruth Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H., say the "Ethics and Cell Engineering: The Next Generation" project builds on their longstanding informal partnership dedicated to carefully navigating the frontiers of human developmental biology. "We want to take these issues to a relatively mature level of analysis before they become political footballs, so as to provide the public, policymakers and...