Word: fallopian
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Others argue that human life does not start until a week or so after conception, when the fertilized egg has traveled through the Fallopian tube and implanted itself in the wall of the uterus. "We are able to discern [the embryo's] presence and activity beginning with implantation," wrote Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former chief of obstetrical services at New York City's St. Luke's Hospital, in his 1979 book Aborting America. "If this is not 'life,' what...
...procedure can be used when a woman's fallopian tubes are blocked. Doctors remove an egg from the prospective mother, fertilize it with her husband's sperm outside the body, and then emplant the embryo in the woman's womb. Biggers said no more than four babies have been conceived and born using the method...
Like the diaphragm, the cap works by preventing sperm from migrating from the vagina to the uterus and then to the fallopian tubes, where conception occurs. The diaphragm is a thin rubber shield held in place against the vaginal wall by the tension of its springy rim. The cap is a thicker, thimble-shaped rubber or plastic cup that fits snugly around the neck of the uterus, the cervix, and is kept in place by suction. Both devices are used with spermicidal cream or jelly...
...Massachusetts General Hospital, tells of being asked to tend the daughter of Heart Surgeon Burakovsky. The patient, herself a doctor, had entered a general hospital in Moscow with abdominal pain, but then, as can happen in hospitals anywhere, "she got into trouble," says Zapol. She apparently had an infected fallopian tube and then a "misadventure" with anesthesia, followed by cardiac arrest and blood infection. When Zapol arrived in Moscow, she was having difficulty breathing and her chances of survival seemed slim...
...times more susceptible to such problems than women who do not employ them. This is a special concern for those who have never been pregnant. The warning signals include abdominal pain, fever, severe menstrual cramps, abnormal bleeding and vaginal discharges. Left unchecked, such infections can scar and block the fallopian tubes, where the union of egg and sperm takes place, and sometimes lead to a hysterectomy. The I.U.D., when it fails, has also been suspected of causing ectopic pregnancies, in which the fetus grows outside the uterus. But recent studies indicate that the devices actually seem to reduce that danger...