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...Health Services will provide follow-up care for women who have therapeutic abortions. For women who wish to have the baby, UHS will help find an obstetrician and will give pregnancy counseling. 'Being pregnant does not affect your university status, the guide states...
Last year the A.C.L.U. challenged the constitutionality of the 1905 Illinois statute, which allows abortion only to preserve the mother's life. Then Dr. Bart Heffernan, a Roman Catholic obstetrician and head of the Right-to-Life group, entered the case on behalf of the state's unborn children. Heffernan's brief argued that overturning the law would deprive the unborn of life without due process. He noted that since the 18th century courts have recognized the fetus' right to inherit or to share a trust, and that modern developments in tort law have recognized suits...
...first detailed report of success with PG abortions comes from King's College Hospital in London. There, Obstetrician Gilbert M. Filshie worked with Dr. S.M.M. Karim, a biochemist, to select a prostaglandin that would induce an abortion early in pregnancy, yet produce a minimum of side effects, such as altering the blood pressure. They devised a solution containing 50 micro-grams of PG F2 alpha per milliliter, and infused it into the veins of 15 women who were from nine to 22 weeks pregnant. The amount was tiny: only one milliliter (one-fifth of a teaspoonful) per minute...
...without his glasses, he sent a secretary out of the room on the pretext of fetching them. The secretary promptly telephoned the local radio station, and while most Cipolenos were at their midday meal, they heard a broadcast describing the "reprehensible outrage." Quickly they rallied to support Salto, an obstetrician who since 1963 had vastly improved the city's school, water and sewer systems, set up neighborhood medical dispensaries and won wide popularity...
...should also be the obstetrician's responsibility, added Adamsons, to minimize the danger that the baby will be deprived of oxygen during labor and delivery. At present, he said, 20% to 25% of all U.S. babies suffer some oxygen deficiency during birth; 3% to 4% are "severely afflicted" and may develop cerebral palsy or other handicaps...