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George Richard Tiller (1941-2009)
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Jul 16, 2012
George Richard Tiller, a doctor who performed abortions in Wichita, Kansas, was shot to death on 31 May 2009 by Scott Roeder. As the director of one…
AbortionLate-term abortionAbortion servicesFetusAbortion, Legal
Roman Catholic Church Quickening
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Although the concept of quickening was not developed initially by the Roman Catholic Church, much of their histories are intertwined. Quickening, the…
Human DevelopmentreligionFetusAbortionCatholicism
Moore v. Regents of the University of California (1990)
By: Rohini Nott
| Published: Nov 18, 2020
On 9 July 1990, in Moore v. Regents of the University of California, the Supreme Court of California ruled in a four-to-three decision that…
LawMedical laws and legislationLegal MedicineRight of propertyRight of property--United States--History
Smith v. Cote (1986)
By: Nathalie Antonios
| Published: Mar 24, 2011
The case of Smith v. Cote (1986) answered two important questions concerning law and childbirth: does the State of New Hampshire recognize a cause of…
LawCongenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and AbnormalitiesCongenital DisordersAbortion
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
Stephen Jay Gould studied snail fossils and worked at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the latter half of the twentieth century…
Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution)Spandrel beamsOntogenyPhylogenyFossils
Jan Evangelista Purkyne (1787-1869)
By: Minai Mandana
| Published: Jun 05, 2014
Jan Evangelista Purkyne, also called Johannes or Johann Evangelist Purkinje, studied cells in the cerebellum, fibers of the heart, subjective visual…
Purkinje CellsPurkinje FibersOocytes
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
The Case of Lydia Fairchild and Her Chimerism (2002)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Jun 01, 2021
In 2002, after applying for government assistance in the state of Washington, Lydia Fairchild was told that her two children were not a genetic match…
ChimerismHuman GeneticsForensic geneticsLone twinsPaternity testing
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1993)
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: May 29, 2017
In its 1993 decision Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the US Supreme Court established the Daubert Standard for evaluating the…
LawBendectin (Trademark)Morning SicknessSedativesAbnormalities, Human
Cocaine as a Teratogen
By: Mark Zhang, Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Oct 17, 2013
Cocaine use by pregnant women has a variety of effects on the embryo and fetus, ranging from various gastro-intestinal and cardiac defects to tissue…
CocaineCocaine abusePregnancyEmbryosFetus