Her other novels include Girls Night Out, The Llama Parlour, Foetal Attraction and Altar Ego.
They say anyone who wants to get a foetal ultrasound done, gets it done.
The artificial organs were created in a laboratory using human amniotic fluid and animal foetal cells.
"The foetal folds on this calf are quite strong suggesting that the animal may be quite young".
We can make something that has the complexity of a normal, foetal kidney.
Professor Campbell has perfected a technique which not only produces detailed 3D images, but records foetal movement in real time.
Once an older woman does become pregnant, she runs a greater risk of miscarriage, foetal and chromosomal abnormalities, and pregnancy-related diseases.
Dr White agreed that more data was needed, saying that measuring foetal growth and movement should be central to any future strategy.
He said this was refused because there was still a foetal heartbeat.
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An attempt to fund foetal stem-cell research was vetoed by Mr Bush.
During the raid, officials also found foetal remains frozen or refrigerated, including severed feet employees testified were to be used to determine paternity.
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It said such circumstances would include cases of rape, incest, fatal foetal abnormality or when a woman chooses not to continue with a pregnancy.
This foetal "programming" which determines health later on in life is strongly related to the mother's diet and lifestyle, even before she becomes pregnant.
In the Neanderthal graves, the corpse has sometimes been placed in a foetal position, as though for rebirth: the deceased had to take the next step himself.
Moreover, she says, "foetal homicide" laws now on the books in 38 states put the rights of the unborn above those of pregnant women.
"The foetal versus mother's rights are always going to be an issue, " says David LaBahn, president and chief executive of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys.
The law, called the Human Heartbeat Protection Act, bans abortions after 12 weeks, when a foetal heartbeat can generally be detected in an ultrasound scan.
Brian Hosie, of SAC Consulting veterinary services, said any farmers encountering foetal abnormalities, stillbirths or newborns showing signs of nervous disease should contact their vet or SAC.
The leaks suggest there is just one recording of Praveen Halappanavar requesting an abortion but that it was turned down because there was still a foetal heartbeat.
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Dr Katherine Astbury told the court that she had been prepared to terminate the pregnancy if her patient's condition deteriorated, even if there was still a foetal heartbeat.
Professor Dick van Velzen, head of foetal and infant pathology at Alder Hey between 1988 and 1995, was named by the Redfern report as being at the centre of the scandal.
One said she could not comment "adequately" on her skills and the other said she had only worked with her on foetal medicine and could not comment on her obstetrics and gynaecology skills.
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The week before it was an alcohol study, which revealed one in 20 would-be mothers was drinking more alcohol than recommended during pregnancy putting their babies at risk of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
The inquest heard that midwives did not regularly check her labour progress and after bringing a foetal scalp electrode to monitor the baby they found he had already been born and starved of oxygen.
Dr Atul Singham, from the Institute of Child Health in London, also said that he was slightly sceptical about the likely scale of "foetal programming" in child diet until it could be proven in human studies.
The group's counsel, David Wilby QC, has told Mr Justice Akenhead that the disabilities were caused early on in their foetal development when their mothers ingested or inhaled an "atmospheric soup of toxic materials" from the redevelopment.
The film profiles several couples seeking an abortion due to foetal abnormality: their latest scans have shown that their child would not survive for long outside the womb, and, they are told, would be in great pain.
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When Mrs Halappanavar's condition deteriorated the following day, Dr Astbury said she had formed the view that there might be no option but to consider a delivery, regardless of the foetal heartbeat, and had consulted hospital colleagues about this.
Dr Jean-Pierre Lin, consultant paediatric neurologist at Evelina Children's Hospital in London, says that in children the commonest cause is damage to the foetal brain during pregnancy which means that the brain does not develop in a normal way.
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