anencephalic
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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 β 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 β Jan. 21, 2016
In his animal-law classes, Wise told me, he has his students consider the actual case of a 4-month-old anencephalic baby — that is, a child born without a complete brain.
From New York Times β Apr. 23, 2014
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost all anencephalic babies die soon after birth.
From New York Times β May 29, 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 Havelock Ellis
