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Horatio Robinson Storer was a surgeon and anti-abortion activist in the 1800s who worked in the field of women’s reproductive health and led the…
PeopleAbortionAbortion servicesPro-life movementPro-life movement--United StatesErnst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a prominent comparative anatomist and active lecturer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…
PeopleHaeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919Biological EvolutionBiographyEvolutionJohann Friedrich Meckel studied abnormal animal and human anatomy in nineteenth century Germany in an attempt to explain embryological development.…
PeopleAnatomy, ComparativeEmbryologyBirth Defectsfetal developmentBest known for his contributions to the field of embryology, Karl Ernst von Baer also pursued a variety of other areas of study including medicine,…
PeopleEpigenomicsBiographyEpigeneticsEduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger was a physiologist known for his research on respiration, the respiratory quotient, experimenting on the effects of…
PeopleRespiratory quotientRespirationEmbryologyEmbryosSergio Cereceda Stone was born 16 April 1942 in the coastal city of Valparaiso, Chile. Stone's mother Luz was a housewife and caretaker for Sergio…
PeopleFertilityethicsReproductionBiographySir Francis Galton was a British science writer and amateur researcher of the late nineteenth century. He contributed greatly to the fields of…
PeopleGalton, Francis, 1822-1911GeneticsReproductionBiographyPope Pius XII was born Eugenio Maria Giuseppi Giovanni Pacelli on 2 March 1876 in Rome, Italy, to Virginia and Filippo Pacelli. Known for his oft-…
PeoplereligionReproductionCatholicismPopesAugust Antonius Rauber was an embryologist and anatomist who examined gastrulation in avian embryos. He examined the formation of the blastopore,…
PeopleGastrulationChicksPope Pius IX, born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, marked his contribution to the abortion debate by removing the distinction between an "animated"…
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