fetus

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Keenan argued that workers’ compensation law, which bars employee lawsuits over work-related injuries, also prohibited the child’s claims, because a fetus in an employee’s womb was effectively an employee herself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Although prior immunity usually protects the fetus, routine screening is not available in some countries, highlighting the challenges of managing an infection that is widespread but often symptom-free.

From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026

In the interim, it lurks underground in stasis, almost like a fetus in the womb.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2025

Quadros’s research has found that a specific autoantibody blocks the transport of folate from mother to fetus during pregnancy and when present after birth, the infant’s brain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025

Like they’re so mature and all-knowing, and I’m some kind of half-formed fetus.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera