Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...said that from the point of incision of the uterus to removal of the fetus, the operation took "a couple of minutes...
Edelin said that he sought to determine whether the fetus's heart was still beating before handing the fetus to in nurse, by placing his finger on the chest of the fetus...
Homans established that obstetrics and gynecology department regulations, set up by Edelin as chief resident in 1973, dictated that if a "live" fetus was delivered in the course of an attempted abortion by hysterotomy or saline infusion, it was to be taken immediately to the new-born nursery...