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In the 1980s, researchers at the pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf in Paris, France, helped develop a biological compound called mifepristone.…
Induced AbortionAbortionAbortifacientsReproductive RightsMifepristoneIn 2019, Americans United for Life, hereafter AUL, published a model legislation, called the Women’s Right to Know Act, in their annual publication…
LiteratureAbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionMaternal-Fetal MedicineQuickening, the point at which a pregnant woman can first feel the movements of the growing embryo or fetus, has long been considered a pivotal…
Human DevelopmentethicsReproductionFetusAbortionAbortion is the removal of the embryo or fetus from the womb, before birth can occur-either naturally or by induced labor. Prenatal development…
AbortionethicsReproductionReproductive RightsFetusThe Silent Scream is an anti-abortion film released in 1984 by American Portrait Films, then based in Brunswick, Ohio. The film was created and…
LiteratureAbortionAbortion in literatureFetusEmbryosIn Davis v. Davis (1992), the Supreme Court of Tennessee decided a dispute over cryopreserved preembryos in favor of Junior Lewis Davis, who sought…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroAmerican Fertility SocietyConceptionThe Family Planning Services and Public Research Act of 1970, often called Title X Family Planning Program, is a US federal law that provides federal…
LawFamily PlanningFamily planning--Law and legislationPopulation PolicyTitle X Family Planning Program (U.S.)In A.Z. v. B.Z. (2000), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts, affirmed a lower courtÕs decision, ruling that…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroPregnancyEmbryosKnown for dropping a long-held distinction in the Catholic Church between the animated and unanimated fetus, Felice Peretti was born in Grottamare,…
PeoplereligionReproductionCatholicismPopesMizuko Kuyo is a Japanese Buddhist ceremony that focuses on a deceased fetus or stillborn child. This ceremony was originally developed to honor Jizo…
Fetal propitiatory rites--BuddhismAbortionFetusStillbirthBuddhism