We describe a 25-week-old female fetus of consanguineous parents with ultrasonographic findings of increased echogenicity of lungs mimicking CAM (cystic adenomatoid malformation) type III, olygohydramnios and fetal ascites. A therapeutic abortion was performed and unilateral cryptophthalmos, laryngeal atresia and bilateral syndactyly of the hands and feet were observed at post-mortem. These fin...

This Article interprets the debate about abortion and the debate about embryonic research and therapeutic cloning as aspects of a larger history of ideas. The Article suggests that embryos increasingly stand for different truths in discourse about abortion on the one-hand and about embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning on the other. More specifically, the Article suggests that th...

This paper examines a proposal to make use of IVF techniques to provide an alternative to therapeutic abortion of fetuses with genetic abnormalities. We begin by describing the proposed procedure, and then show that, considered in itself, it is morally on a par with therapeutic abortion. However, once the wider practical implications are brought into view, the proposed new procedure loses its i...

The Case Against Non-Compliance with the Fundamental Principle concerning Anencephaly, under review by the Brazilian Supreme Court, is a milestone in the debate on abortion in Latin America. Since the currently prevailing version of the Brazilian Penal Code was enacted in 1940, there has been fierce resistance to any change in the country's abortion policy. This article discusses the arguments ...

Since half of the genes are inherited from paternal side, maternal immune system has to tolerate presence foreign antigens. Regulatory T cells facilitate development and maintenance peripheral tissue tolerance fetus during pregnancy. Reduction in regulatory is associated with complications pregnancy, including spontaneous abortion. Recent studies mouse models have shown that adoptive transfer T...

Objectives: Abortion can be stressful for the family and may lead to psychological problems. The question arises whether religious attitudes restructured into women who experience induced spontaneous abortions. In this regard, present study aimed investigate relationship of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after therapeutic abortion (Induced spontaneous) with mother’s spiritual experiences...

SIRy-Mr. W. L. Whitehouse (21 June, p. 759), like myself' and many others, again calls attention to the potential dangers of rhesus isoimmunization in therapeutic abortion. He asks that the extent of this problem be further and scientifically investigated. There are, in fact, one or two further facets to be considered. Firstly, all of us are aware of the numbers of women whose first continuing ...

SIRy-Mr. W. L. Whitehouse (21 June, p. 759), like myself' and many others, again calls attention to the potential dangers of rhesus isoimmunization in therapeutic abortion. He asks that the extent of this problem be further and scientifically investigated. There are, in fact, one or two further facets to be considered. Firstly, all of us are aware of the numbers of women whose first continuing ...