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Kara Rood, a maternal fetal medicine physician at the Ohio State University who isn't contributing to the trial, feels similarly encouraged by the early results.
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Ari Daniel, NPR, 14 Feb. 2026
Criminal cases against women for drug use during pregnancy have already helped to establish case law for fetal personhood in multiple states.
—Shoshana Walter, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Elliott wrote to Mark Surrogacy a few weeks later, when her ob-gyn in Texas confirmed a fetal heartbeat.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
The cause and the mechanism behind this link isn’t known, but prenatal metabolic factors — hyperglycemia in particular — have been implicated in fetal brain development in ways the authors suggest might influence epilepsy.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026
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Ari Daniel, NPR, 14 Feb. 2026
Criminal cases against women for drug use during pregnancy have already helped to establish case law for fetal personhood in multiple states.
—Shoshana Walter, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Elliott wrote to Mark Surrogacy a few weeks later, when her ob-gyn in Texas confirmed a fetal heartbeat.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
The cause and the mechanism behind this link isn’t known, but prenatal metabolic factors — hyperglycemia in particular — have been implicated in fetal brain development in ways the authors suggest might influence epilepsy.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026
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“Fetal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetal. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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fetal
adjective
fe·tal
ˈfēt-ᵊl 
: of, relating to, or being a fetus
Medical Definition
fetal
adjective
fe·tal
variants
or chiefly British foetal
: of, relating to, or being a fetus
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