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...left atrium, to draw off blood before it reaches the ventricle (see diagram). The second tube is connected to the aorta, to return pumped blood to general circulation. The tubes are then led down through the surgical incision in the chest and placed under the skin of the upper abdomen...
...examine the complexities of the case, it is easiest to begin with these agreements. The operation for which Edelin was indicted, both sides agree, was a hysterotomy, a procedure in which the abdomen and the uterus of a pregnant women are cut open for the purposes either of abortion or delivery. During this operation. Edelin separated the placenta of the fetus from the uterine wall of the patient, thus depriving the fetus of the nutrition that sustained its pre-natal life. The defense will even concede the presence of the body, for it agrees with the prosecution that his operation...
...those efforts, Edelin said, he inserted a long needle through the abdomen and into the uterus to withdraw a quantity of the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus, but than these "taps" produced bloody fluid...
...rice diet so unappealing that most of them abandoned it as soon as they left the hospital and medical supervision. A handful of doctors even tried surgery to depress blood pressure. The operation was called a sympathectomy; it cut certain nerves leading to the organs of the chest and abdomen on the theory that this would relax the arterioles. It did but only temporarily; the arterioles soon responded to hormonal signals to constrict...
...prosecution alleges that the fetus was between 24 and 28 weeks old, and that the type of abortion Edelin was performing--by incision through the abdomen--should have resulted in the delivery of a baby...