anencephalic

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Two weeks later, she was diagnosed with an anencephalic pregnancy, a fatal defect where a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2024

So ruled the UN Human Rights Committee in 2005, after the Peruvian government forced a pregnant teenager to carry an anencephalic fetus to term.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2023

In 2012, the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that mothers should also be allowed to terminate the pregnancy of anencephalic babies - which are born without most of their brains and typically live hours or days.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2016

“The court placed the life of the anencephalic baby over Beatriz’s life,” said Victor Hugo Mata, one of her lawyers, speaking by phone from the Supreme Court.

From New York Times • May 30, 2013

Her own child was anencephalic and acranial, with entire absence of vault of skull.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock