Fetal Viability

Pregnancy

Fetal viability

Beginning of human personhood

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Freedom of Choice Act

2022 United States ballot measures

November 2023 Ohio Issue 1

Freedom of choice

Abortion in Minnesota

2022 California Proposition 1

Abortion in Ohio

United States abortion-rights movement

Abortion in the United States

Preterm birth

Abortion law in the United States by state

Abortion in California

Abortion in Washington (state)

Abortion in Delaware

Roe v. Wade

Abortion law

Fetal rights

Miscarriage

Gestational age

Hemolytic disease of the newborn

LIG1

Chris West (politician)

Doe v. Bolton

Nuchal scan

Termination for medical reasons

Ectogenesis

Ectopic pregnancy

Practitioner would determine fetal viability1

• Under the petition language, the patient's healthcare practitioner would determine fetal viability. (latimes.com)

Maternal4

• The constitutional amendment would prohibit abortion bans prior to fetal viability and in cases of maternal mortality risk. (feminist.org)
• Exposure concentrations were based on a dose range-finding study that demonstrated 25,000 ppm 2H4MBP did not induce excessive maternal toxicity or affect parturition, litter size, or pup viability. (nih.gov)
• The people who are getting abortions later in pregnancy are those who have incredibly heartbreaking situations, either some awful, terrible fetal anomaly that took a while to be diagnosed or some maternal medical condition that puts the mother's life at risk," said Mae Winchester, a Cleveland-based maternal fetal medicine specialist. (kxan.com)
• Noninvasive maternal screening for fetal chromosomal abnormalities should be offered to all pregnant women who have not already decided to have amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (CVS). (msdmanuals.com)

Gestational age5

• Medical viability is generally considered to be between 23 and 24 weeks gestational age. (wikipedia.org)
• Viability depends upon factors such as birth weight, gestational age, and the availability of advanced medical care. (wikipedia.org)
• Fetal viability is generally considered to begin at 23 or 24 weeks gestational age in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
• The target age for these surgeries, Paschall said, is between 21 and 25 weeks of gestational age, which happens to be precisely the age targeted in fetal pain abortion legislation. (oneofus.eu)
• Since then, many doctors have bemoaned the legal and political bastardization of the medical concept, arguing that viability is much more complex than gestational age alone. (californiahealthline.org)

Pregnancy7

• In Ireland, under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, fetal viability is defined as "the point in a pregnancy at which, in the reasonable opinion of a medical practitioner, the foetus is capable of survival outside the uterus without extraordinary life-sustaining measures. (wikipedia.org)
• As a result, judges have struck down certain states' so-called heartbeat laws, which tried to prohibit abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat (as early as six weeks of pregnancy). (leaps.org)
• and basic obstetrics, such as pregnancy viability and fetal positioning. (news-medical.net)
• Private central London women's clinic specialising in pregnancy including blood tests, nuchal scans & all routine pregnancy scans, early pregnancy, viability & dating scans, 20 weeks anatomy scan, well-being scans, gender scans, growth & Doppler scans. (020.co.uk)
• Antenatal & pregnancy ultrasound scans covering early pregnancy, 3D / 4D baby scans, fetal growth, detail & anomaly, nuchal scan (Down's Syndrome test). (020.co.uk)
• Full range of antenatal scans from dating pregnancy through to nuchal translucency screening, detailed anatomy, Babybond 4D and foetal presentation scans. (020.co.uk)
• With modern medicine, that point, referred to as the point of viability, is typically about 23 weeks or 24 weeks into the pregnancy. (kxan.com)

Abortions9

• Operation Rescue recently conducted an undercover investigation of late-term abortions at George Tiller's Women's Health Care Services, in Wichita, Kansas, focusing on the determination of fetal age and viability. (operationrescue.org)
• Operation Rescue discovered compelling evidence that WHCS intentionally underestimates fetal age, and therefore viability, in order to avoid compliance with the Kansas ban on post-viability abortions. (operationrescue.org)
• Abortions Before Fetal Viability Are Legal: Might Science and the Change on the Supreme Court Undermine That? (leaps.org)
• For almost 50 years, the Supreme Court of the United States has struck down laws that ban all or most abortions, ruling that women's constitutional rights include choosing to end pregnancies before the point of viability. (leaps.org)
• In Ohio, no abortion procedures performed past 12-weeks gestation-more than 10 weeks before fetal viability-resulted in "failed abortions. (feminist.org)
• A proposal to ban abortions following fetal cardiac activity-around 6-weeks gestation-did not get enough signatures. (feminist.org)
• The court said Monday it would review next term whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional. (kcur.org)
• The test case is from Mississippi, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks, significantly before fetal viability. (kcur.org)
• Jamie Corley of suburban St. Louis filed constitutional amendments Wednesday to allow abortions in cases of rape, incest and fatal abnormalities until fetal viability. (necn.com)

Abnormalities1

• The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) provides recommendations for screening for fetal chromosomal abnormalities and a chart to show the timing of prenatal testing for chromosomal abnormalities (see ACOG: Prenatal Genetic Testing Chart ). (msdmanuals.com)

Bovine serum7

• Therefore, we investigated the viability and differentiation of human osteoblast-like cells during replacement of fetal bovine serum in vitro. (elsevierpure.com)
• The aim of the present study is to replace the potentially infectious supplement fetal bovine serum during the cryopreservation procedure in order to perform future clinical trials. (elsevierpure.com)
• In the cell culture of cryopreserved and fresh osteoblast-like cells, we substituted Dulbecco's modification of Eagle's medium (DMEM)/Ham's F12 plus 1% penicillin/streptomycin with autologous serum, human serum albumin and Biseko® for fetal bovine serum. (elsevierpure.com)
• For the fourth treatment group, we removed fetal bovine serum without replacing it. (elsevierpure.com)
• DMEM/Ham's F12 plus 1% penicillin/streptomycin with fetal bovine serum served as the control group. (elsevierpure.com)
• These findings indicate that, for clinical purposes, fetal bovine serum can be removed for cryopreservation of iliac cancellous bone with minor loss of viability. (elsevierpure.com)
• The cellular fraction was processed and frozen with L-proline (1.5M) + trehalose (0.2M) or with DMSO + fetal bovine serum (FBS) as control. (bvsalud.org)

Ultrasound2

• Small hematomas on the surface of the placenta (subamniotic hemorrhage) are common at 18-20 weeks on ultrasound, but hemorrhages identified beneath the placenta, at the edge of the placenta, or behind an isolated area of the fetal membranes is of greater significance. (medscape.com)
• Ultrasound scans in Harley Street performed to the highest standard by sonographers trained in fetal medicine under Professor Kypros Nicolaides. (020.co.uk)

Serum1

• The women were followed by vaginal followed with serial ultrasounds to deter- sonography and monitoring of serum estra- mine fetal viability. (who.int)

Cell viability2

• GO-AgNPs induced significant cytotoxicity by the loss of cell viability, production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), cell cycle arrest, increasing leakage of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and level of Malondialdehyde (MDA), increasing expression of pro-apoptotic genes and decreasing expression of anti-apoptotic genes. (researchsquare.com)
• After 30 and 90 days, the samples were thawed, and cell viability was assessed using the MTT technique. (bvsalud.org)

California3

• California law generally bars the performance of an abortion past the point of fetal viability," he said. (californiahealthline.org)
• Current California law incorporates the viability limit from Roe , allowing abortion for any reason through most of the second trimester and after that only if the patient's or fetus's health is in danger. (californiahealthline.org)
• Even among legal scholars, there is no consensus about whether that means the viability standard in place now will remain if Proposition 1 is approved or if time limits on abortion will be eradicated in California. (californiahealthline.org)

Abortion bans1

• But with Monday's decision to take on the whole question of pre-viability abortion bans, that approach may now be on the way out, and a more direct approach on the way in - namely overturning Roe . (kcur.org)

Prohibit2

• The measure continues to prohibit abortion after 'fetal viability' -- approximately 22-24 weeks during gestation -- unless a doctor believes a pregnant patient's life or health is in danger, experts told AFP. (yahoo.com)
• Tracy Thomas , director of the Center for Constitutional Law at The University of Akron, Ohio , who focuses on gender and civil rights issues, told AFP on November 6: 'The amendment specifically says that the government may prohibit abortion after fetal viability at about 23 weeks. (yahoo.com)

Toxicity2

• Taken together, our study demonstrated that GO-AgNPs potentially induce oxidative damage to DNA, which result in toxicity and cell apoptosis in caprine fetal fibroblast cell due to an increased generation of ROS. (researchsquare.com)
• Embryo-Fetal toxicity: Can cause fetal harm. (nih.gov)

Anomaly1

• Fetal viability scans, nuchal & well being scan, fetal cardiac & anomaly scans, Chorion Villus Sampling (CVS). (020.co.uk)

Prenatal Development1

• In the prenatal cohort, F2 prenatal development (litter size, fetal weight, and morphology) was assessed on GD 21. (nih.gov)

Anesthesia1

• It's not even close," he told a newspaper about his status as the leading surgeon with experience with fetal anesthesia surgeries, "I've personally done around 260 now. (oneofus.eu)

Weeks10

• He asserted in 2007 congressional testimony on fetal pain legislation that "a fetus at 20 to 32 weeks of gestation would experience a much more intense pain than older infants or children or adults" because certain pain mechanisms are in play much earlier, while "fibers which dampen and modulate the experience of pain" are delayed until between 32-34 weeks. (oneofus.eu)
• Babies have been known to survive at 22 weeks and earlier, although 23 weeks is generally considered the threshold of viability in the United States, where there exists superior neonatal technology. (operationrescue.org)
• At 24 weeks, the viability of healthy babies born to healthy mothers is undeniable in the medical community worldwide. (operationrescue.org)
• Kansas law implies that each case be individually reviewed and tested for viability beginning at 22 weeks gestation. (operationrescue.org)
• According to that date, Shaye would have been 25 weeks 5 days along, well past the 22 weeks when viability must be determined under Kansas law. (operationrescue.org)
• Medical science has advanced the time of fetal viability to approximately 24 weeks. (ontheissues.org)
• Fetal viability is typically between 22 and 24 weeks. (wskg.org)
• Alabama women would likely lose their right to pre-viability abortion access at or after 15 weeks," he wrote. (ajc.com)
• Under those cases, states were prohibited from banning abortion prior to fetal viability, around 23 weeks. (wjbf.com)
• They could have added weeks in there for viability," said Mehek Cooke, a lawyer working with the opposition campaign, Protect Women Ohio. (kxan.com)

Heartbeat1

• It also allows private citizens to sue anyone involved in helping someone get an abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. (nhpr.org)

Umbilical1

• Normal fetal growth and umbilical artery Doppler waveforms have been described as being associated with perinatal survival. (medscape.com)

Uterus4

• Fetal viability is the ability of a human fetus to survive outside the uterus. (wikipedia.org)
• Viability, as the word has been used in the United States constitutional law since Roe v. Wade, is the potential of the fetus to survive outside the uterus after birth, natural or induced, when supported by up-to-date medicine. (wikipedia.org)
• According to Websters Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, viability of a fetus means having reached such a stage of development as to be capable of living, under normal conditions, outside the uterus. (wikipedia.org)
• The original language from the amendment's backers defined fetal viability as the fetus having "a significant likelihood of survival outside the uterus with reasonable measures. (kxan.com)

Preterm1

• We sought to characterise the bacterial and fungal stool flora of preterm neonates and organism viability and evaluate any associations with NEC and sepsis. (bmj.com)

Oxidative stress1

• Carbon dioxide is known to contribute to oxidative stress, which the researchers suggested would hinder fetal development. (newstarget.com)

Amendment6

• The proposed amendment would declare a fundamental right to abortion until fetal viability, or when needed to protect the life or health of the pregnant patient. (latimes.com)
• But the constitutional amendment outlined in Proposition 1 doesn't contain the word "viability. (californiahealthline.org)
• But in various committee hearings, supporters at times seemed confused by the language of their own bill and scrambled to answer definitively when asked whether the amendment would preserve the viability limit or discard it. (californiahealthline.org)
• But physicians involved in drafting the amendment, like Dr. Pratima Gupta , said no mistake was made: The word viability was left out on purpose. (californiahealthline.org)
• But critics say it would actually expand abortion rights, because the amendment ignores the concept of fetal viability. (wvxu.org)
• The text of the amendment explicitly states that "abortion may be prohibited after fetal viability. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)

Courts1

• In response, the courts have determined that the viability standard has replaced the original trimester formulation of Roe. (ontheissues.org)

Largely2

• Fetal viability depends largely on the fetal organ maturity, and environmental conditions. (wikipedia.org)
• Today, the Guttmacher Institute reports that more than half of American women live in states whose laws are considered hostile to abortion , largely as a result of these intrusions on pre-viability abortion access. (leaps.org)

Health5

• Sonogram images, sworn statements show that Women's Health Care Services intentionally underestimates fetal age and viability to avoid compliance with Kansas law. (operationrescue.org)
• The framework of viability remains central to the country's abortion law today, even as some states have passed laws in the name of protecting women's health that significantly undermine Roe . (leaps.org)
• Nevertheless, the viability framework stands: while states can pass pre-viability abortion restrictions that (ostensibly) protect the health of the woman or that strike some kind a balance between women's rights and fetal life, it is only after viability that they can completely favor fetal life over the rights of the woman (with limited exceptions when the woman's life is threatened). (leaps.org)
• c) For the stage subsequent to viability the State, in promoting its interest in the potentiality of human life, may, if it chooses, regulate, and even proscribe, abortion except where necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother. (cornell.edu)
• But - and these are two very big buts - it also says (1) that physicians may determine viability on a "case-by-case basis," and (2) that there is a right to abortion after viability until birth to protect "health" that is not limited to physical health. (nationalrighttolifenews.org)

Physicians1

• The rationale offered that physicians have willy-nilly ability to define viability as anything they want is inaccurate. (kxan.com)

Neural1

• Anyone willing to make absolute statements regarding fetal, infant or adult neural development and processing is a brave person," Paschall said, adding that "the complexities of the brain defy absolute explanation. (oneofus.eu)

19732

• Wolfe v. Isbell, 291 Ala. 327, 329 (Ala. 1973)] Various jurisdictions have different legal definitions of viability. (wikipedia.org)
• Viability has long been a controversial concept, plaguing ethicists on both sides of the abortion debate since it was embedded in the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. (californiahealthline.org)

Evaluate1

• Therefore, this work aimed to evaluate the viability of ADMSCs cryopreserved with the combination of L-proline and trehalose over up to 90 days. (bvsalud.org)

Growth1

• In the reproductive performance cohort, littering indices, F2 viability, and growth were assessed until PND 28. (nih.gov)

Unborn3

• That stage of fetal development when the life of the unborn child may be continued indefinitely outside the womb by natural or artificial life-support systems. (wikipedia.org)
• Paschall's experience butts up against another theory offered by fetal pain skeptics, who argue that the unborn fetus is immersed in a mix of fluids that chemically induce sleep, meaning that even if the brain wiring were in place, the fetus will still be oblivious. (oneofus.eu)
• A majority of justices noted that "abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called 'fetal life' and what the law now before us describes as an 'unborn human being. (jonathanturley.org)

Specialist1

• Consultant Specialist in Fetal Medicine in Kent, close to London. (020.co.uk)

Likelihood1

• For purposes of abortion regulation, viability is reached when, in the judgement of the attending physician on the particular facts of the case before her, there is a reasonable likelihood of the fetuses' sustained survival outside the womb, with or without artificial support. (wikipedia.org)

Life4

• Viability is defined by law as when a baby can survive for an indefinite period outside the womb with natural or artificial life-supportive measures. (operationrescue.org)
• Once viability is reached, however, states have a 'compelling interest' in protecting fetal life. (leaps.org)
• I'm extremely well aware that there are many anti-abortionists for whom this term is hideously inappropriate, but there are also a lot of anti-abortionists who genuinely hold that position because they care about fetal life, and I was one of them. (freethoughtblogs.com)
• The Supreme Court justices wrote that a woman's right to privacy was protected only up to viability - the point when a fetus is capable of "meaningful life outside the mother's womb. (californiahealthline.org)

Mice1

• Oral, 90- and decrements in fetal/pup body weights following exposures to day exposures of rats and mice to NMP result in decrements in NMP vapor. (cdc.gov)

Pregnant women1

• Surgical exposures of pregnant women to anesthetics resulted in a 57 percent fetal loss in women exposed during the first trimester, but no increase in congenital defects among the offspring. (cdc.gov)

Point1

• end point is a decrease in fetal/pup body weights observed after oral, dermal, and inhalation exposures of dams to NMP. (cdc.gov)

Legal1

• Viability has always been a slippery notion on which to pin legal rights. (leaps.org)

Survive1

• Viability-the potential for a fetus to survive outside the womb-is a core dividing line in American law. (leaps.org)

Development1

• Lifespan Development - Fetal Age of Viability Stage. (powershow.com)

Question1

• As ever, the politics of abortion lurk directly behind the question of fetal pain. (oneofus.eu)

Stage1

• Fetal Age of Viability Stage. (powershow.com)

Birth1

• The ductus arteriosus is a small fetal structure that connects two large arteries (aorta and pulmonary) but becomes pathological when it is maintained after birth. (bvsalud.org)

Pain2

• Abortion activists derided studies and expert testimony confirming fetal pain. (oneofus.eu)
• They thus are right in the target zone of fetal pain legislation. (oneofus.eu)

Exists1

• Viability exists as a function of biomedical and technological capacities, which are different in different parts of the world. (wikipedia.org)