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David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt secretly filmed Planned Parenthood executives in California and edited the clips in a way that purported to show them selling fetal remains.
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Calmatters, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
Development of the fetal bones suggests the woman was 7 to 9 months pregnant.
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2025
Among them is Kentucky state Rep. Jim Gooch Jr., a Baptist great-grandfather who is trying for the second time to expand circumstances in which doctors can perform abortions, including for incomplete miscarriages and fatal fetal anomalies.
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Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2025
For 10 people, Bianchi’s team couldn’t find a maternal or fetal reason for the off-kilter test results.
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Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1736, in the meaning defined above
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“Fetal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetal. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
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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