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Although she admits that the procedure—officially called dilation and extraction (D&X)—is rare, she claims it accounts for 1 percent of all abortions. This is an incorrect statistic; D&X procedures account for only 0.17 percent of all abortions. Such procedures are not performed on healthy women whose fetuses would be able to survive indefinitely outside the mother, as Ms. Itoh claims. They are generally only done if there are serious mental or physical health problems related to the pregnancy, such as the fetus suffering from a condition that would render it unable...
...society needs is to understand the reasons why women feel they must need abortions and address those reasons by providing extensive education for all and enacting policies that provide financial support and social support for pregnant women and parents. We need to redirect the attention away from these rare but usually necessary procedures and onto issues impacting those who have already been born—for example, addressing the needs of 13 million children living in poverty. To do otherwise would truly be “morally repugnant...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can be used to detect acute appendicitis in pregnant women, according to a study conducted by a team of Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors. Untreated acute appendicitis can be fatal to both the mother and fetus. Acute appendicitis is a rare condition, occurring in less than one percent of pregnant women and in about the same percentage of the general population, said Ivan Pedrosa, an assistant professor at HMS who worked on the study published in Consumer Health Daily. According to Pedrosa, many women experience abdominal pain while pregnant. Though the likelihood of a woman having...
...rare sort of comedic revue, hosted by Averell and his friend B.J. Novak ’01 in venues like Lowell Lecture Hall and Sanders Theater. Novak now writes and acts in NBC’s “The Office...
...remains inside the womb but then punctures the back of the skull to remove the brain. Despite the gruesomeness of this procedure, there are still people who believe that a woman should have the right to choose to have a partial-birth abortion. They argue that this procedure is rare, it only accounts for 1% of abortions performed. Indeed, 2,200 partial-birth abortions are performed per year, the vast majority on healthy mothers with healthy fetuses. Yet the fact that something rarely occurs is not a valid argument for why it should be permitted, if it is otherwise morally...