Word: caesarean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lord Killanin's handling of the Taiwan controversy [July 19] clearly revealed that gentleman's ability to forge a mediocre twist to a Caesarean dictum; He came, he saw, he capitulated...
...physicians during that period noted that Dr. X had been on duty near many of the victims around the time they died. They included a four-year-old girl who had undergone surgery for removal of intestinal cysts and a 36-year-old woman who had given birth by caesarean section; none of the 13 was Dr. X's patient. Opening Dr. X's hospital locker, a fellow doctor found 18 vials of curare, most of them empty. Former County Prosecutor Guy W. Calissi questioned Dr. X, but the surgeon insisted that he was merely using the muscle...
...hysterotomy is a method of abortion similar in technique to Caesarean section. In the hysterotomy, however, the fetus is separated from the placenta while in the womb and soon dies deprived of oxygen. Flanagan had defined life in his prosecution as the state when the fetus breathes and maintains a heartbeat independent of the mother. Late in the hearing, though, he suggested that Edelin could be convicted for manslaughter even if the alleged victim had only a "potential" for life...
...upon the records of Edelin, one of only two doctors at B.C.H. willing to perform abortions. In October 1973, Edelin used a saline injection to abort a woman believed to be 20 weeks pregnant. When the procedure failed to end the pregnancy, he performed a hysterotomy, a form of caesarean section, delivering a fetus that pathologists estimated to be between 22 and 24 weeks old. Despite Edelin's insistence that the fetus was dead on delivery, the D.A. charged the doctor with manslaughter...
...delivery was even more controlled than the pregnancy. Thirty medical people from three hospitals crowded into the operating room to help as doctors delivered the first baby naturally, the other five by caesarean section...