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Foetus

Foetus, 'foetus' means a human organism during the period of its development beginning on the fifty-seventy day following fertilisation

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abortion

the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus ;esp : the medical procedure of inducing expulsion of a human fetus to terminate a pregnancy 2 :

Feticide

The act of killing the fetus in the womb the offense of procuring an abortion

Body

CORPSE. What constitutes a body has not been judicially defined. There must have been independent life, a non-viable fetus expelled at a stage of pregnancy at which separate existence is impossible does not fall within the coroner's

Abortion

embryo or foetus, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5. Means no more than the expulsion of a fetus before it is capable of living. In this sense it is a synonym of miscarriage. With respect to

Verbarrubella

contracted by a woman during the first several months of pregnancy rubella may cause serious abnormalities in the fetus

pro life

Same as antiabortion used by those opposed to voluntary abortion to emphasize their view of a fetus as already living and to avoid the negative tone of a word beginning with ldquoanti rdquo

Placenta

The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth

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