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...first twelve weeks abortion is usually done by "D and C"-dilatation of the cervix and curettage (scraping) of the womb lining. For the next four weeks, most physicians consider abortion too hazardous because of the danger of causing hemorrhage or even puncturing the uterus. Beyond the 16th week, the preferred method is "saline induction," the injection of about half a pint of salt solution into the womb. New York Hospital, which has 112 beds in its women's division, is scheduling eight D and Cs a day, plus 16 salines a week. St. Luke's Medical Center...
...hearings opened with testimony from two doctors who said that birth control pills may cause a wide range of diseases- including fatal blood clotting cervix cancer, and breast cancer...
Kistner said that in the ten years since the pill appeared on the market, the FDA had reported only one case of cervix cancer and one case of breast cancer in the millions of women using the pill...
High-Risk Groups. About one-fourth of all uterine cancers invade the body of the womb, usually in older women. The form that attacks the cervix (neck) of the womb may develop in women at any age from the late teens on. Because of both its greater frequency and its threat to women in their childbearing years, this type has received intensive study. The American Cancer Society's Epidemiologist E. Cuyler Hammond lists several social as well as medical factors that go with high cervical cancer rates...
...greatest controversy today concerns cancer of the cervix. Again the trouble is insufficient data. What is indisputable is that many, if not most, women on the Pill undergo cellular changes in the cervical region. The question is whether these are precancerous. Two researchers, Drs. Milliard Dubrow and Myron R. Melamed, conducted a three-year study of almost 35,000 women at Manhattan Planned Parenthood clinics. Their report has not been published, and may never be, because technical reviews of the study suggest that it was badly designed. But bits and pieces of the findings have been carefully leaked...