While granting a prisoner the right to abort her foetus, a recent Bombay High Court judgment recognised a woman's absolute right to abortion. This article discusses the judgment in detail and the bioethical debates over abortion rights. It deals with the restrictions imposed by the law not only on when the foetus can be aborted, but also who can get the abortion done and in what circumstances.

The suggestion that the foetus can become severely anaemic from haemorrhage into the maternal circulation was first made by Wiener (1948). A case reported by Wickster (1952) was almost certainly due to such a haemorrhage. However, neither Wiener nor Wickster made confirmatory laboratory tests, and it was Chown (1954, 1955) who first proved, both serologically and by showing excess of alkali-res...

By A. E. Simpson, M.D. April 25, 1877. The monster which I have to bring under the notice of the Society was brought to me, on 23d March, by a midwife who is in the habit of attending parturient women of the poorer classes, with the following history:? Mrs C., aged 20, gave birth to her first child, a girl, on 25th December 1873, being then 16 J years of age, and to a second girl on 14th June 1...

The human race is Nature's finest creation in the universe. It a miracle and wonder of nature that body has right size, weight, shape. Every woman society lifelong dream having child. One hardest elements pregnancy deformed live foetus. Garbha Vriddhi Vikas Kram are precisely described Ayurveda, despite absence contemporary imaging methods like sonography MRI. Ayurvedic texts offer variety pers...

Cytochrome P-450 (CYP) are the most common drug metabolizing enzymes and are abundantly expressed in liver apart from kidney, lungs, intestine, brain etc. Their expression levels change with physiological conditions and disease states. The expression of these CYPs is less in human foetus and neonates compared to adults, which results in lower clearance of xenobiotics in infants and neonates com...

It has been suggested that the foetus of a diabetic mother is subjected to intermittent hyperglycaemia and that this is followed by pancreatic islet hyperplasia, increased insulin secretion, and greater deposition of fat (Osler, 1960). Measurements of plasma-insulin-like activity in the newborn in response to a glucose load have shown that the baby of a diabetic mother has a greater rise of ins...

A 5-year-old Holstein-Friesian cow was presented with a primary problem of difficult in parturition (Dystocia). This was the third calving for the cow. A disoriented foetus was palpated per rectum, and on vaginal examination the head of the foetus was palpated which was ventral to the body of the foetus. A caesarotomy (caesarean section) was performed which aided in the diagnosis of a shistosom...

Airway problems in an unborn foetus that may cause obstruction can be safely managed using an ex-utero intrapartum technique. Advanced technology now allows many congenital airway problems to be diagnosed in the prenatal period. Careful prenatal planning of an ex-utero intrapartum treatment allows safe airway control while the foetus remains on uteroplacental support. It avoids the need for eme...

Isoenzyme electrophoresis was used to study levels of genetic differentiation among strains and clones of Trichomonas gallinae, Trichomonas vaginalis, Tritrichomonas foetus, Tetratrichomonas gallinarum, and Pentatrichomonas hominis. Strain variation was found within T. gallinae, T. vaginalis, and T. foetus, however, levels of enzyme polymorphism were greater in T. gallinae than in T. vaginalis ...

Two distinct patterns of chimaerism were found in conceptuses produced by injecting dissociated 4.5-day inner cell mass cells into genetically dissimilar blastocysts. Pattern 1: donor cells were found in the endoderm layer of the visceral yolk sac, but not in the adjacent mesoderm layer of this organ or in the foetus itself. Pattern 2: donor cells were found in the mesoderm layer of the viscera...