Research on the Fetus: AppendixThe Commission, 1975 - Fetus |
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amniocentesis amniotic fluid animal models antibody benefit bilirubin Birth Weight blood Born In Born Born Out Born child clinical Commission congenital rubella syndrome consent dead fetus delivery detection DHEW diagnosis drugs Elmhurst erythroblastosis fetalis ethical ex utero experiments fetal death fetal experimentation fetal research fetal tissues fetoscopy fetus fetus in utero fetuses gestational age grams harm Hospital Survival Survival human fetus intrauterine Kings County L. I. Jewish live fetus lung maternal metabolism monitoring moral mother neonatal newborn nontherapeutic research nonviable fetus Nonwhite Hospital Survival Obstetrics parents percent person physician placenta potential pregnancy pregnant women premature infants present previable fetus procedures protection Queens Gen REFERENCES Continued reported research involving Rh disease Rh isoimmunization risk statute studies Survival Rate Survival Survival Born Survival Survival Survival techniques therapeutic therapy tion TOTALS transfusion trimester umbilical utero uterus vaccine viable fetus Vincent's weeks White Nonwhite Hospital
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Page 78 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 13-26 - If the State is interested in protecting fetal life after viability, it may go so far as to proscribe abortion during that period except when it is necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother.
Page 15-157 - The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent: should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice...
Page 12-91 - The following persons may become donees of gifts of bodies or parts thereof for the purposes stated: (2) any accredited medical or dental school, college or university for education, research, advancement of medical or dental science or therapy; or (3) any bank or storage facility for medical or dental education, research, advancement of medical or dental science, therapy or transplantation; or (4) any specified individual for therapy or transplantation needed by him.
Page 13-34 - Fetal death is death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy. The death is indicated by the fact that after such separation the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles.
Page 15-159 - Biomedical research involving human subjects should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons and under the supervision of a clinically competent medical person. The responsibility for the human subject must always rest with a medically qualified person and never rest on the subject of the research, even though the subject has given his or her consent.
Page 5-5 - A live birth is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles...
Page 2-1 - Viable as it pertains to the fetus means being able, after either spontaneous or induced delivery, to survive (given the benefit of available medical therapy) to the point of independently maintaining heart beat and respiration. The Secretary may from time to time...
Page 15-157 - This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment. The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each...
Page 12-91 - ... actual notice of contrary indications by the decedent or actual notice of opposition by a member of the same or a prior class, may give all or any part of the decedent's body for any...