Depending upon the results, different implications of the study would be made. If the experimenter came to the conclusion that caffeine did have severe teratogenic effects on babies, many actions would be taken in order to limit the amount of caffeine consumed in pregnant women. For instance, programs could be set up in clinics in order to inform women of the potential danger a cup of coffee every morning causes. This also raises ethical questions about letting pregnant women consume legal known teratogens. If babies could be seriously harmed then the question is how to stop mothers from consuming something so common as coffee or soda. Another big problem is that teratogenic studies are very difficult to conduct because pregnant women could be doing a number of harmful things to their babies, not only the specific factor under study. One way to try to eliminate this is to have, for example, a group of women doing every other thing but consuming caffeine while the other group does every other thing and consumes caffeine. However, this can still lead to many problems because not everything can always be taken into account for. For this reason teratogenic studies are often misleading and do not give accurate information about specific teratogens and their effects. To this day, it is still unknown what the best environment for a child in the womb is, however, women can only do their best to stray away from known teratogens as much as possible.

The study that would be conducted would involve women during their fetal stage of pregnancy. The reason for the women being in their fetal stage is simply, in many cases, during the zygotic stage they may not even know they are pregnant. Th

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