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fetus

noun as in unborn young

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Quadros’s research has found that a specific autoantibody blocks the transport of folate from mother to fetus during pregnancy and when present after birth, the infant’s brain.

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Senate Bill 323 is the second bill introduced in the state legislature this year that would classify a fetus as a human being from fertilization, effectively categorizing abortion as homicide.

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The medical consensus is that it should only be used to battle high fevers that can be dangerous for both the mother and the developing fetus.

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In another interview, Kennedy said, “The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris.”

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Her family had no choice in that decision; state law grants fetuses personhood and bans abortion after the point at which an ultrasound can detect cardiac activity in an embryo.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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