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Social Implications of Non-Invasive Blood Tests to Determine the Sex of Fetuses
By: Ceara O'Brien
| Published: Mar 23, 2014
By 2011, researchers in the US had established that non-invasive blood tests can accurately determine the gender of a human fetus as early as seven…
ContextDiagnostic sex determinationSex PreselectionFetusSex Determination Analysis
Fetal Surgery
By: Kathleen O'Connor, Erica O'Neil
| Published: Nov 01, 2012
Fetal surgeries are a range of medical interventions performed in utero on the developing fetus of a pregnant woman to treat a number of congenital…
Fetus--SurgeryFetoscopyUltrasonics in obstetricsPregnancyEndoscopy
Quickening
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Oct 30, 2007
Quickening, 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 DevelopmentethicsReproductionFetusAbortion
Ethics of Fetal Surgery
By: Kathleen O'Connor
| Published: Nov 20, 2012
Surgeons sometimes operate on the developing fetuses in utero of pregnant women as a medical intervention to treat a number of congential…
ethicsFetus--SurgeryFetoscopyUltrasonics in obstetricsEndoscopy