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Earlier in the day Edelin described in detail the "abortion by hysterotomy," in which he performed an abdomenal in- cision on the 17-year-old patient to expose the uterus and remove the fetus...
Edelin said that he decided on October 2, 1973, to perform the hysterotomy operation after two unsuccessful attempts to abort the fetus by injection of saline solution into the womb...
...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...
Edelin testified Friday that in the course of the hysterotomy operation, the amniotic sac that surrounds the fetus "unfortunately" broke, and that this rupture made it "difficult" to extract the fetus...
...These are only possible cases," Homans said. "Isolated incidence of survival should not lead anyone to expect that any given fetus should survive...