Fetus

Marquis’ rationale that aborting a fetus would equate to the loss of a valuable “future like ours” and that a human’s future is by definition a “natural property” of the human species. Also, the potential for harm to the mother as a result of the pregnancy is not considered in Marquis’ rationale and this omission discounts the future value of the mother whose body is being used by the fetus to develop. Marquis appears to assume that under most circumstances, a fetus, regardless of its level of…

pregnancy. Nicotine passes through the bloodstream of the mother and into the developing fetus causing harm to the fetus (“Birth defects and brain development”). Smoking during pregnancy also causes mother’s blood oxygen content level to drop drastically(“Birth defects and brain development”). When the mother’s oxygen level drops it causes the fetus to receive less oxygen. This can cause damage to the fetus and result in a condition called fetal hypoxia (Birth defects and brain development”).…

Fetal Development Introduction Fetal development is the growth and maturation of the fetus in utero (Fetal Developmet, 2009). It is divided into three periods: the zygote period, the embryonic period, and the fetal period. In the short span of two-hundred and sixty-six days a single fertilized cell develops into a human newborn infant (Figure 1). Interest has increased in the prenatal period as a staging period for well-being and disease in later life. It has enormous attention devoted to the…

In this event professor Carole Mendelson’s discussion was primarily about how the fetus itself signals to the mother when its ready to be born. She also mentioned some of the mechanisms behind the signaling and how this signal is initiated. In the unites states only, about 15 million babies are born immaturely. The rate of preterm birth is approximately 11 percent; about 450,000 babies a year are born immaturely and a lot of them die. This is a very high number which is why this issue needs more…

when it is as young as an embryo until it’s last breath of life before death. Pro-Life activist thinks abortion is morally wrong because overall they are murdering a fetus, which is living, moving and breathing. This is why religious people are so passionate about abortion laws because they obey their ruler God. Beings though the fetus can breathe, they also believe that it can feel pain just as much as we can. According to Stuart W. G. Derbyshire, PhD, he states “fetuses cannot be held to…

problem arises in determining if a fetus is a human being from conception, and if it deserves the same rights that other human beings possess. I will show that a fetus is not a human being and therefore abortion is permissible. According to Thomson, deciding if a fetus is a human being or not is too hard to do, as we wouldn’t know where to draw the line of personhood. Therefore, Thomson grants, for the sake of the remaining points to be made against abortion, that a fetus is a human being. The…

terms is surgery that is performed on the fetus inside the uterus of the mother. It was introduced in n 1963 in Auckland, New Zealand by A. William Liley. There are three types of fetal surgery; Open fetal surgery, Fetoscopic surgery, and Fetal image-guided surgery. Doctors have found that the fetus can actually sustain anesthesia by 33 to 41 weeks, and these babies have the opportunity to heal, recover and grow inside the uterus the safest place for the fetus to be at that age. Types of Fetal…

aspirations involves the use of a syringe to suck the fetus out of the body. Machine vacuum aspirations use a cannula which gently sucks the fetus out. The suction curettage procedure involves going inside of the uterus and pulling out body parts of the fetus piece by piece (Dilation and Curettage With Suction). Medication abortion is usually used one to twelve weeks after a missed period. The pill causes you to basically miscarry the fetus. It is said that the baby can feel and sense when…

Marquis argues that the right of the unborn fetus outweighs the right for a woman to control her body. Before supporting his thesis Marquis lays out one of the main problems in the abortion debate. People in favor of abortion often have a very narrow view on what constitutes a person and this is problematic because it leaves out infants, severely retarded and mentally ill individuals. Cleary killing one of these individuals would be wrong so killing a fetus would also be wrong. In laying out his…

abuse during pregnancy can have a life threatening effect to the unborn baby such as heart attacks, respiratory failure, strokes and seizures. If you drink, smoke or ingest illegal drugs, the fetus does as well. You aren’t only putting your own life on the line, put also the unborn baby. Exposing the fetus to drugs can increase the baby’s chance of being premature, have birth defects, be under weight and possibly cause stillbirths. Babies born by mothers who use drugs often have problems later…