Fetal personhood

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Four ultrasound images show different stages of human fetal development, with the fetus visible in each black-and-white scan against a dark background.

Portrait of a white woman beside a close-up of an IVF embryo with a micropipette and an arrow; she holds a LIFE magazine cover titled 'Test-Tube Baby Boom'.

Fetal personhood: Media

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Portrait of a white woman beside a close-up of an IVF embryo with a micropipette and an arrow; she holds a LIFE magazine cover titled 'Test-Tube Baby Boom'.

Meet America's First IVF Baby

Don't call her a “test-tube baby.”

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

Four ultrasound images show different stages of human fetal development, with the fetus visible in each black-and-white scan against a dark background.

Ultrasounds showing a fetus's growth over time

Some anthropologists have seen a trend toward earlier conceptions of fetal personhood...

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