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  2. Anencephaly - Wikipedia

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    Frequency. 1 in 4600 in the U.S. Anencephaly is the absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp that occurs during embryonic development. [ 1] It is a cephalic disorder that results from a neural tube defect that occurs when the rostral (head) end of the neural tube fails to close, usually between the 23rd and 26th day following ...

  3. Intact dilation and extraction - Wikipedia

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    Intact dilation and extraction ( D&X, IDX, or intact D&E) is a surgical procedure that terminates and removes an intact fetus from the uterus. The procedure is used both after miscarriages and for abortions in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy . In United States federal law, it is known as a partial-birth abortion. [ 1][ 2]

  4. Late termination of pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Wade, allow states to impose more restrictions on post-viability abortions than during the earlier stages of pregnancy. As of December 2014, forty-three states had bans on late-term abortions that were not facially unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade or enjoined by court order. [44] In addition, the Supreme Court in the case of Gonzales v.

  5. Neural tube defect - Wikipedia

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    Neural tube defects ( NTDs) are a group of birth defects in which an opening in the spine or cranium remains from early in human development. In the third week of pregnancy called gastrulation, specialized cells on the dorsal side of the embryo begin to change shape and form the neural tube. When the neural tube does not close completely, an ...

  6. ‘The worst nightmare.’ Another Ky woman faces reality of ...

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    Ordinarily, the treatment would be to induce the fetus, which would probably be still-born or die soon after birth. But the UK doctors told her that under Kentucky’s draconian new abortion laws ...

  7. Prenatal testing - Wikipedia

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    There are three purposes of prenatal diagnosis: (1) to enable timely medical or surgical treatment of a condition before or after birth, (2) to give the parents the chance to abort a fetus with the diagnosed condition, and (3) to give parents the chance to prepare psychologically, socially, financially, and medically for a baby with a health problem or disability, or for the likelihood of a ...

  8. Miscarriage - Wikipedia

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    Miscarriage, also known in medical terms as a spontaneous abortion, is the death and expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it can survive independently. [ 1][ 4] The term miscarriage is sometimes used to refer to all forms of pregnancy loss and pregnancy with abortive outcomes before 20 weeks of gestation.

  9. Gestational choriocarcinoma - Wikipedia

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    Gestational choriocarcinoma is a form of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia, which is a type of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD), that can occur during pregnancy. It is a rare disease where the trophoblast, a layer of cells surrounding the blastocyst, undergoes abnormal developments, leading to trophoblastic tumors.