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The public-relations masterstroke of the 1980s, a pro-life film called The Silent Scream , featured ultrasound pictures of the dismemberment of a fetus.
A 20-week fetus is commonly 6 inches long or more.
Murderer vs. murder: Half of all Americans say that killing a fetus is murder, but few regard the woman who participates in the killing as a murderer.
During the first eight weeks of pregnancy, when the fetus is very small, medications like methotrexate and RU-486 can safely make the uterus slough the placenta and gestational sac.
Fetuses of diabetic mothers with uncontrolled blood glucose levels tend to be hyperglycemic and hyperinsulinemic [ 1 ] . An increased incidence of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) has been observed in infants of diabetic mothers [ 1 ] . RDS is caused by inadequate amounts of pulmonary surfactant due to delayed lung development [ 2 ] . It has been proposed that high insulin levels can delay lung development in the fetus of the diabetic mother [ 3 ] .