OBJECTIVES: To compare the views of freshman students with senior students of the Faculty of Medicine- University of São Paulo concerning the respect for the mother's freedom of choice, the need to protect the unborn child, the proportionality between the mother's freedom of choice and the protection of the unborn child, and issues related to legal abortion. To determine whether the medical kno...

The debate on abortion gets heated because some people feel that abortion should be abolished while others argue that is should be legalized. Those who against abortion reason that life begins at conception, and hence the unborn child has equal human rights with any other living person. This makes them state that abortion is murder and that those involved should be charged with murder in a cour...

A wide range of clinical techniques and investigations is available to healthcare professionals to survey the condition of a fetus in the womb. These may be deployed from early pregnancy to birth. They range from the use of traditional equipment such as a Pinard's stethoscope, which allows direct auscultation of the fetal heartbeat, to ultrasound imaging of the fetus, which gives an ever-increa...

Severe hyperbilirubinemia in a pregnant mother suffering from Crigler-Najjar syndrome type II is a threat to the unborn child and may result in brain injury. We report the case of a Gly71-->Arg/Tyr486-->Asp homozygous mother of East Asian descent, who was treated with phototherapy during embryogenesis and with phenobarbital during the rest of the pregnancy. This resulted in significantly reduce...

In a review of gastrointestinal medications in pregnancy [1] it was pointed out that no large epidemiological study had been published on pregnant women with irritable bowel syndrome and that other forms of functional gastrointestinal disorders during pregnany are also rather little studied. Some drugs used at such conditions have been investigated for a possible effect on the unborn child like...

In this article, I will present a personal journey of making sense the experience sibling abortion under China’s Once-child Policy and transgenerational trauma related to Cultural Revolution in group analysis training group. The first part paper reflect on analyse how groups helped me claim identity as mourner, allowed both presence absence my unborn brother become real, offered reparative fami...