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Still Flanagan's vague description of the alleged manslaughter act is sufficiently linked with abortion-related issues that a conviction would inevitably intimidate those who perform abortion operations and could place severe legal restrictions on the practice. Such an extreme definition of birth could possibly lead to other, equally-contrived definitions that would turn other legitimate methods of abortion into manslaughters...
Doctors all too often perform open-heart surgery that is technically perfect only to have the patient die soon after the operation, because his previously weakened heart cannot bear the added burden of surgical shock. To ease the load on ailing hearts, doctors have for several years used implantable balloon pumps (TIME, Aug. 23, 1971) and other devices that are designed to be removed surgically after recovery. A system developed at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center carries this heart-assist technology a significant step forward. Their pump not only provides a postoperative boost but can be connected again...
...pump draws oxygenated blood from the left atrium and injects it forcibly into the aorta. The first time the system was used, the pump was doing 65% of the heart's work three hours after the operation. By the fifth hour, the heart had recovered sufficiently to perform 50% of its normal function. By the twelfth hour, the heart was carrying 78%, and by the 42nd hour, 95% of the work. The pump was unhooked 44 hours after the operation...
Looking ahead to next week, the From Foundation will present its usual collection of first birthdays with 1974 compositions of by Donald Sur and Earl Kim of the Music Faculty. And without any birthdays to spice up their program, the talented Cantata Singers will perform works of Bach and Stravinsky on Wednesday...
...case broken in a silent courtroom look a lot longer to carry out. Homans had to establish first that the clocks in operating room two were on the same wall, that there was only one direction in which a right handed surgeon would have had to face to perform the involved hysterotomy operation and that this direction was diametrically away from the clocks. Before Judge James P. McGuire gave his order to clear the desk. Flanagan objected twice and McGuire held two lengthy conferences at the bench, while the defendant gazed morosely out past the jury and the gallery with...