As Amanda Marcotte wrote this week, in 2011 the anti-choice movement "stopped trying so hard to manage mainstream perceptions of themselves as somehow just great lovers of fetal life, and are coming out with their anti-sex agenda".
The fetal heart is bad - but not bad enough to act.
Since fetal cells leak into the amniotic fluid in large numbers, they are easy to find.Amniocentesis is a reasonably safe procedure, but is not completely without risk.
And so, after losing control of their muscles, their memories and eventually their minds, do the sufferers.Two groups of researchers are trying to change that with fragments of fetal striatum.
It answers the ethical questions raised by using human fetal tissue.
Dr Shah could not find them earlier in development either, such as just after the fetal testes first started putting out testosterone in a 13-day-old embryo.
The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations gave over $3m to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMSS) in the 1960s, helping it to pioneer India's first amniocentesis tests, initially for genetic abnormalities and later for identifying fetal sex.
Orrin Hatch, a senator from Utah who opposed research on fetal tissue on pro-life grounds, and Tommy Thompson, Mr Bush's health and social services secretary, are in the same group of pro-stem-cell Republicans.
Fetuses carried by well-nourished mothers do not, as it were, anticipate the risk of malnutrition, and thus respond to it less well.That suggests fetal programming is a real phenomenon.
This peculiarity of anatomy is often ascribed to fetal testosterone exposure because it is common in men and much rarer in women, and because there seems to be a correlation between the point in gestation when it appears and surges of testosterone in the womb.
Even the perennially optimistic Economic Planning Agency, which has been feeling the "fetal stirrings of recovery" for some months (a phantom pregnancy, say the cynics), is commanding some attention.
