Immediate delivery of the fetus may be indicated if the fetus is mature or if the fetus or mother is in distress.

In comparison to the embryo, the fetus has more recognizable external features, and a more complete set of developing organs.

Often, however, with advancement of the pregnancy the support for the fetus becomes compromised and the fetus dies.

51 Days 52 Days Developing retina, nose and fingers The fetus' continual movement in the womb is necessary for muscular and skeletal growth.

25 Days Heart chamber developing 32 Days Arms hands are developing 36 Days Beginning of the primitive vertabrae These weeks are the period of the most rapid development of the fetus.

Over time, the fetus calcifies and becomes a lithopedion.

Every single one of them man, woman, child, infant, fetus.

And the basis of the fetus' prediction is what its mother eats.

A patient may carry a dead fetus but will not go into labor.

The body attacks mainly transplanted tissue and even the fetus in some cases.

These weeks are the period of the most rapid development of the fetus.

Nor can something like self awareness or rationality warrant greater protection for the fetus than for, say, a cow, because the fetus has mental capacities that are inferior to those of cows.

Induction may occur any time after 34 weeks of gestation if the risk to the fetus or mother is greater than the risk of delivering a premature fetus regardless of lung maturity.

If, at a later date, the woman wants to have a child, why should she use the DNA of her earlier, aborted fetus rather than conceiving another fetus in the usual way? Each fetus the one she aborts and the one she later conceives through sexual intercourse has its own unique DNA.

Opponents will respond that abortion is, by its very nature, unsafe for the fetus.

Fetal protection in law Some laws seek to protect or otherwise recognize the fetus.

Just to give you a few examples ending a pregnancy versus killing a fetus

The fetus' continual movement in the womb is necessary for muscular and skeletal growth.

At the 5 year wedding anniversary... a 5 week old fetus, is in here.

Although the girl was later allowed to begin treatment, both she and the fetus died.

There is no insurance for these cases. No prenatal test is done to the fetus.

The notion of fetal learning may conjure up for you attempts to enrich the fetus

If the fetus is less than 36 weeks and neither mother or fetus is in any distress, then they may simply be monitored in hospital until a change in condition or fetal maturity whichever comes first.

And to switch on processes that we knew how to do when we were a fetus.

But the pregnant woman's own voice reverberates through her body, reaching the fetus much more readily.

And because the fetus is with her all the time, it hears her voice a lot.

But it seems absurd that this should make any difference to the morality of aborting the fetus.

And don't say embryo or aborted fetus not even close, it's unfertilized so it can't be either.

The fetus incorporates these offerings into its own body, makes them part of its flesh and blood.

The fetus adjusts its metabolism and other physiological processes in anticipation of the environment that awaits it.

In the case of an anencephalic fetus, no such development is possible. It cannot become a rational being.

The aim of the two defendants was to enable the victim to abort her four month old fetus.

Halappanavar, an expectant mother, died after her doctors, citing Ireland s legal prohibition of abortion, refused to remove her 17 week old fetus, despite allegedly acknowledging that the fetus was not viable and placing Halappanavar in an intensive care unit as her condition deteriorated.

The fetus is fed inside the female with cells lining the oviduct, which they eat with special scraping teeth.

Fetal position (British English also foetal) is the positioning of the body of a prenatal fetus as it develops.

And so when Tyrone talks about the fetus being trapped in a contaminated environment, this is my contaminated environment.

A mammalian fetus, if it loses a limb during the first trimester of pregnancy, will re grow that limb.

For one thing, urine unlike feces is sterile, so it doesn't contain bacteria that could make the fetus sick.

So a Hindu perspective on the Halappanavar case would dictate saving the mother s life if the fetus were endangering it.

If you think a fetus has a mind, then you have a different position on abortion than if you don't.

If the fetus really did have the moral status of any other human being, it would be difficult to argue that a pregnant woman s right to choose includes the right to bring about the death of the fetus, except perhaps when the woman s life is at stake.

The fallacy in the anti abortion argument lies in the shift from the scientifically accurate claim that the fetus is a living individual of the species Homo sapiens to the ethical claim that the fetus therefore has the same right to life as any other human being.

If the fetus continues to grow at this speed for the entire nine months, it would be 1.5 tons at birth.

Also, in some countries, laws have been passed to restrict the practice of abortion based upon the gender of the fetus.

169 were approved, resulting in the birth of 80 children from 62 childbirths (due to the prevalence of multi fetus pregnancies).