One theory is that the contractions prepare the unborn baby's respiratory muscles for breathing after birth.
The Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC) was outraged by the technique.
If pregnant women contract the infection it can be passed to the unborn baby.
The unborn baby would have quickly become the latest proxy in America's ongoing culture wars.
Flu during pregnancy may increase the risk of the unborn child developing bipolar disorder later in life, research suggests.
And tonight I ask you in the Congress to move this year on legislation to protect the unborn.
They can also lead to complications in pregnancy that affect the unborn baby and can lead to miscarriage.
Gaye hopes that in the future the law may be extended to cases where the unborn is deemed unviable.
Kildee urged his fellow Democrats to vote for the born and the unborn by supporting the health care bill.
And some evangelical Christians worry that mercury pollution is damaging the unborn, and pointedly ask what Jesus would drive.
Life is absolutely precious to the unborn as well as to the living.
She claims campaigners will protest at the conference calling on Sinn Fein to "uphold the rights of the unborn child".
At the same time, the longer the unborn baby stays in the womb, the easier it is for it to heal.
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"At one point she slipped down from the chair and the risk of injury to the unborn child was significant, " the report said.
Additionally, Gosnell, who is not a board-certified obstetrician or gynecologist, was found guilty of 21 counts of abortion of the unborn, 24 weeks or older.
Gosnell, who is not a board-certified obstetrician or gynecologist, was also found guilty of 21 counts of abortion of the unborn, 24 weeks or older.
Moreover, she says, "foetal homicide" laws now on the books in 38 states put the rights of the unborn above those of pregnant women.
That's until this year, when Brizendine and Yost, already close on so many levels, shared a story they will no doubt tell to the unborn girls.
G4S staff at Cedars centre near Gatwick used substantial force with significant risk to the unborn child, the Chief Inspector of Prisons said in a report.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1991 requires clinics to take account of the welfare of the unborn child - including the need for a father.
He says his work has been able to show for the first time that the unborn baby engages in complex behaviour from an early stage of its development.
The taker mentality has thus ineluctably gravitated toward taking from a pool of citizens who can offer no resistance to such schemes: the unborn descendants of today's entitlement-seeking population.
But Panorama failed to explain the Catholic belief that an even more innocent victim was at stake - the unborn child, who was equally entitled to fullness of life and love.
And it seemed to Katia that the dance of death was not merely horrid but unjust terrifying because the lion was going to eat both the cow and the unborn calf.
Offering the jab to pregnant women between 28-38 weeks gestation will boost maternal antibodies against whooping cough and allow these to be passed to the unborn baby, giving them protection in the crucial first weeks of life.
The only people who could launch an action on behalf of the children are the Official Solicitor or others related to the children known as people "of standing", according to the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC).
In recent months newspapers have carried startling reports about Republican-governed states pushing women who seek early abortions to have a probe inserted into their vaginas, in order to provide an image of the unborn child, in the hope that the picture will change their minds.
This, once again, causes us to wonder why these folks would take so strong a position when it comes to the lives of the unborn yet are unwilling to take such a position on behalf of a woman who has walked on the planet for a few years already.
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There was criticism from anti-abortion campaigners at the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children that the funds raised at the family-planning summit in London could be used for terminations - despite the organisers' insistence that a firm dividing line had been drawn.
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