The dilemma of the fetus : fetal research, medical progress, and moral politics / Steven Maynard-Moody.

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995.

xviii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-225) and index

From the laboratory to the streets: the foreshocks of the fetal research controversy in the years leading up to Roe v. Wade -- Learning about the fetus: the history of our understanding of the fetus and the methods of modern fetal research -- Fetal tissue research: its uses, benefits, and the inevitable controversy that arises -- The search for critical definitions: death, life, personhood -- Fetus as tissue, fetus as person -- Fetus as patient -- The ethics of fetal research and the abortion conflict -- The first legislation: congress and the fetal research controversy

The Reagan years: the political standoff between supporters and opponents of fetal research -- New fetal tissue transplant research, old political controversy -- The Bush years: another commission, another failed compromise -- The turning point: antiabortionists Guy and Terri Walden testify before Congress on behalf of fetal tissue transplant -- The new political climate.