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- From: emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marsh)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Fetal Heartbeat (Re: Supreme Court)
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 19:31:26 GMT
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- In article <BrsLD6.8I2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> slkg9733@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven L. Kellmeyer) writes:
- >garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
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- >>The following quote is from Dr. Len Howard, posted here recently.
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- >>"According to the 17th edition of Williams Obstetrics, one of the three
- >>positive signs of pregnancy is identification of the fetal heart
- >>action separately and distinctly from that of the woman. The three
- >>methods of identification of fetal heart rate are auscultation with a
- >>fetoscope, by use of the dopler principle with ultrasound, and by the
- >>use of sonography. The heart beat of the fetus can be detected by
- >>auscultation with a stethoscope by 17 weeks gestation, on average, and
- >>by 19 weeks in almost all pregnancies. Fetal cardiac action can be
- >>detected with appropriate doppler equipment almost always by the 10th
- >>to 12th week of gestation. Echocardiography can be used to detect
- >>fetal heart action as early as 48 days after the first day of the last
- >>menstrual period. Real time sonography can be used to detect fetal
- >>heart action and fetal movement after the second month of pregnancy."
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- >>Susan
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- >"48 days after the first day of the last menstrual period" which means
- >suction currettage abortion, invariably done AFTER the sixth week,
- >*ALWAYS* stops a beating heart.
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- Who really gives a flying f*** anyhow?
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- >Steve Kellmeyer
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- Eric
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