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After IVF, Some Struggle With What To Do With Leftover Embryos
Juli Fragam, NPR
August 20, 2016
This story highlights
the issue of what to do with the approximately one million embryos who
are left frozen as a result of the in vitro fertilization
process.
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How is the developing fetus vulnerable to toxic chemical exposures, and how can
our regulatory
system more effectively protect our health in the prenatal period?
Posted by Molly Rauch,
MPH,
February, 2012, Physicians for Social Responsibility website |
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Study on Premature Babies Raises Questions About Abortion and Medical Care
Sarah Kaplan,
The Washington Post, May 7, 2015
This
article provides an overview of the consequences for unborn children and their
mothers as a result of recent developments
pushing back the time when a child can survive outside the womb (called
viability). The old standard was approximately 24
weeks and is now closer to 22 weeks, creating questions for neonatal intensive
care units and abortion law. The United States
Supreme Court currently permits states to ban abortions after viability.
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Language Experienced in utero Affects Vowel Perception
After Birth: a Two-Country Study
Christine Moon1,Hugo Lagercrantz, Patricia K Kuhl
Acta Paediatrica Vol 102
Issue 2( Feb 2013
In a study of 40 American and 40 Swedish infants, the authors
concluded that infants begin learning language while still in the womb;
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Medical Intervention Should Not Define Legal Parenthood,”
Dr. Reuven Brandt,
BioNews 801
5/11/2015
Using a discussion of a recent case involving
artificial insemination (involving a turkey baster), this commentary
exposes some of the problems created when it is unclear which individuals ought
to have recognized rights and
responsibilities for children created outside of a family relationship. |
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Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains The connection
between mother and child is ever deeper
than thought
Robert Martone
Scientific American, December 4, 2012
New research has discovered the presence of the cells of unborn children in the
brains of their mothers, decades after the
child emerged from the womb. As the article states, "The profound psychological
and physical bonds shared by the mother
and her child begin during gestation when the mother is everything for the
developing fetus, supplying warmth and sustenance,
while her heartbeat provides a soothing constant rhythm." |
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Excessive Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the
Developing Brain
Working Paper 3, Updated Edition.
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. (2005/2014).
This working paper describes how healthy development of a child’s brain can be
derailed by “toxic stress” in the body and
the brain during fetal development as well as early childhood, with damaging
effects on learning, behavior, and health across
the lifespan. This includes significant maternal stress during pregnancy and
poor maternal care during infancy.
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Language Experienced in utero Affects Vowel Perception
After Birth: a Two-Country Study
Christine Moon1,Hugo Lagercrantz, Patricia K Kuhl
Acta Paediatrica Vol 102
Issue 2 (Feb 2013)
In a study of 40 American and 40 Swedish infants, the authors
concluded that infants begin learning language while still in the womb. |
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Scientists Have Discovered That The Cells of Unborn Children Live On in the
Bodies of Their Mothers
September 28, 2012
A National Institute of Health study has discovered that cells
may migrate through the placenta between the mother and the fetus, taking up
residence in many organs of the body including the lung, thyroid muscle, liver,
heart, kidney and skin. These may have a broad range of impacts,
from tissue
repair and cancer prevention to sparking immune disorders. |
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Noninvasive Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Human Fetus
Jacob O. Kitzma1, Matthew W. Snyder, Mario Venturam et al
Sci. Transl. Med.
4,
137ra76
(2012).
Study reviews a new method of prenatal
genetic diagnosis. |
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Fetal and
maternal analgesia/anesthesia for fetal procedures.
Van de Velde M,
De Buck F.
Fetal Diagn Ther.
2012;31(4):201-9.
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Stricter Thinking on Alcohol During Pregnancy
Melinda Beck
The Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2012
Article discusses the vulnerability of unborn children who are 6-12 weeks old to
alcohol consumption by their mothers.
Some of the problems cited are fetal abnormalities, stunted growth and
neurological problems.
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The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to
Shape Brain Architecture:
Working Paper #5.
National Scientific Council on
the Developing Child
February 2008
Study describes how environmental conditions and personal experience, beginning
before birth, impacts child’s development. |