Development of the Fetal Brain

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To the Editor: Current legislative efforts to ban therapeutic abortion focus on the argument that at some point the fetus in utero is a living human being entitled to the protection of law granted to all "persons." Surely this point occurs sooner than at 40 weeks' gestation — but when? Testifying before Congress last year, physicians stated that they could not adequately define such a point.1 , 2 How can this be so, when every day physicians are called on to determine whether or not a person is alive or dead?In fact, physicians have always determined when a person is alive . . .