Gosnell's lawyer, Jack McMahon, had argued that none of the foetuses was born alive.
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Male foetuses produce these hormones from their testes, and female foetuses from their adrenal glands.
Of those a considerable proportion are of foetuses which have got a congenital abnormality.
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It is technically possible to obtain human embryonic stem cells from aborted foetuses and frozen IVF embryos.
Six of the foetuses were excluded from the study because of irregular movements in response to the sound.
Scientists generally agree that foetuses become "viable" or able to survive outside the womb at about 22-24 weeks.
The 400 foetuses stored at Alder Hey were collected from many hospitals in the north west of England.
Dr Cathelijne van Heteren from University Hospital Maastricht said the study showed foetuses had both short and long-term memories.
Liverpool Women's Hospital has confirmed that it sent 320 foetuses to Alder Hey as part of its routine pathology service.
German researchers experimenting on monkey foetuses confirmed his research, but they did not know why the drug caused these results.
It is believed the maternity hospital thought the foetuses would be sensitively and appropriately dealt with after any post mortem examination.
"It seems incredibly remarkable that these foetuses are making sense out of this sound that is really kind of disembodied, " says Moon.
It is the first piece of evidence that we have that phthalates may cause adverse effects on reproductive development in human foetuses.
Four out of the 10 foetuses had measurable brain responses to the light, with reaction times better in the more highly developed foetuses.
While in the womb, foetuses are free to somersault in their amniotic sacs, and this constant movement has so far hindered clear images of growing brains.
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The amendment would grant full legal protection to embryos and foetuses and could outlaw some forms of birth control, stem-cell research and possibly in vitro fertilisation.
Male foetuses put much more strain on the mother's body, they are more difficult to give birth to, and they are much more likely to take risks.
The hospital, which was at the centre of a scandal concerning the retention of organs, still has samples from 10, 000 children - including parts from 1, 000 foetuses.
However, the French team, examining hundreds of babies born using this method found that those spermatozoids taken simply from testicular tissue were more likely to produce foetuses which had physical abnormalities.
Mr Stock said the company regretted that the potential for thalidomide to affect the development of foetuses "could not be detected by the tests that we and others carried out before it was marketed".
Correction 29 July 2011: This story has been amended after the MS Society corrected a statement it had made suggesting stem cells from the brains of aborted foetuses had been used in research it was funding.
Although the parents opted for termination on learning the news in most cases, if left to develop, these foetuses might have suffered from chromosomal conditions such as Down's syndrome and Turner's syndrome, which causes infertility in women.
Female rats exposed to the hydrocarbon JP8 at the point in pregnancy when their male foetuses were developing gonads had babies with more prostate and kidney abnormalities, and their great-grandchildren had reproductive anomalies, polycystic ovary disease and obesity.
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