1.   Antiabortion activists said it exposed inconsistencies in the legal system and wondered why the state would protect a fetus in this case but allow abortions in others.

2.   A member of a fundamentalist religious sect ordered into custody to protect her fetus gave birth to a girl Monday at a state facility for pregnant inmates.

3.   But enough fluid remained to protect the fetus.

4.   But Police Sgt. Lester Fairbanks disagreed, saying he arrested Tourigny to protect her fetus.

5.   Does that mean the law will protect fetuses from parental abuse?

6.   Now, under the Roe vs. Wade decision, the state protects fetuses that are viable, or able to live outside the mother.

7.   Taking antioxidant vitamins to mop up free-radical chemicals formed by oxygen should help protect the fetus, Jauniaux says.

8.   Such reasoning, they warned, opens the door for other legislation protecting a fetus from abortion.

9.   The monitoring program will now try to identify factors that might help to protect the fetuses of overweight women.

10.   A pregnant member of a fundamentalist sect who was taken into custody on orders from a judge to protect her fetus gave birth to a girl on Monday.