Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Flanagan immediately stood up and asked if this definition of viability also applied to a fetus that faces a "two-to-one" prospect of survival. Kennedy said that...
Flanagan said that the introduction of witnesses that at delivery were "younger than this particular subject, smaller than this particular subject, and weighed less than this particular subject" would show that the fetus in the Edelin case was indeed viable...
...These are only possible cases," Homans said. "Isolated incidence of survival should not lead anyone to expect that any given fetus should survive...