From a fetal surgeon who operates on babies in the womb:
“I’ll tell you a truly interesting ethical problem. We have ten surgeons in this lab whose only focus the majority of the time is the fetus as a patient. We’re all operating on fetuses, trying to do our best to protect them, yet when we’re done with the operation that fetus could be still be legally aborted.”
Monica J Casper The Making of the Unborn Patient: a Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998) 14
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