Fetus

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…

developmental of the fetus and is facilitated through certain critical windows (Zucchi at al., 2013). During these windows, the fetal brain undergoes significant developmental changes as structures and connections are being formed. Exposure to a multitude of health risk factors can have serious negative implications. Some of these factors include maternal health behaviors, stress and anxiety, HPA dysregulation and the transmission of such effects from the mother to the fetus through induced…

point let’s cover requirements for murder over a thirteen week fetus; the most common state of a fetus for an abortion to occur. “89-92% of all abortions happen during the first trimester, prior to the 13th week of gestation.” (http://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics) A thirteen week fetus is about the size of lemon with the length of a pea pod (https://www.babycenter.com/prkit-advisoryboard). At this stage the fetus is just starting to develop fingerprints and you can see their…

Twin studies aid in strengthening the correlations between fetal environment, low birth weight, and adult disease. On average, twins have lower than average birth weight as they experience reduction in growth during their third trimester due to limitations in size of the uterus (Vagero & Leon, 1994). Research involving monozygous and dizygous twins has determined that the lighter twin was more likely to develop higher blood pressure and have increased cardiovascular disease risk (Baird, Osmond,…

Court system. The biggest aspect of this issue is determining whether or not the fetus is in fact a human being yet or not. Pro-choice activists argue that abortion is not murder because the fetus has not devolved human qualities and is “only a mass of tissues”. After 18 days of becoming pregnant, a heartbeat begins to develop as well as different parts of the brain. Throughout weeks 11-12 of a pregnancy, the fetus beings to act sensitive to touch, heat, light, and noise. Further studies have…

individual, the length and the route of the exposure (“Mercury and health” 2016). The mother who is previously exposed to a high level of Mercury can pass it on and affect the fetus during pregnancy causing impairments to the development of their brain and nervous system (“Mercury and health” 2016). It was reported that the fetus is five to ten times more sensitive to the toxicity of Mercury than the mother (Dwivedi 2012). The US National Research Council found that approximately 60 000…

American Society vs. Brave New World Society There is a plethora of things that differentiate American society from that of the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. One of them is the quote “everyone belongs to everyone” (Huxley) which, in one sense, may mean that everyone in the society is equal, but in another sense, may mean that there are no relationships and everybody has sex with everybody like hippies in the 1960s. In American society, there are some people that enjoy having sexual…

Abortion: why you should choose adoption Considering all the American ethics and their values, death is morally wrong. That being said, killing of an unborn fetus should be considered morally wrong also don’t you think? Abortions are an unethical practice to kill an unborn fetus, and you should choose adoption because, fetuses are capable of feeling pain. Also abortions reduce the number of babies that will be available for adoption. Abortion can also result in complications and psychological…

purpose of an abortion, to get rid of a baby, is presented as an option to all women that will free them and make their lives easier, but the opposite occurs. Instead of helping women, abortion can leave permanent damage to a woman’s body. Removing the fetus from the body requires skills and tools that are not always available. Sometimes a doctor who is performing a surgery may not have a lot of experience in performing one and will not know what to do in emergency situations. In other cases,…

There is no clear decision as to when an unborn child has its own rights. Some Mothers do not find out they are pregnant until the fourth or fifth week of pregnancy. Then, there is the matter of letting the Father know, but what if there is no “father”? That is where there are issues whether to abort or not. The Mother has to decide if she is physically and financially stable to raise a child. If it is a teen pregnancy, there is the matter of school, working, money, but most importantly,…