Word: uterus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sterilization by hysterectomy is no longer appropriate. Sterilization is now a daytime procedure. My patients come and leave. Hysterectomy, on the other hand, is a major operation and should be done for more legitimate reasons that a patient's desire not to have a uterus or a doctor's desire to enrich himself," Dr. Paul Winig, Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, said...
...after the San Francisco operation, according to the Denver Post, surgeons at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center used a drainage tube to treat hydrocephalus, a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain cavity, in a 24-week-old fetus. Says Harrison: "The next step is opening the uterus, fixing something and closing it back up again to allow the baby to develop normally...
...pelvic cramps as well as the headaches, backache, nausea and diarrhea suffered by many women during their monthly flow may be caused by prostaglandins. These potent chemicals, produced by the body, help regulate functions such as blood pressure, blood clotting and reproduction. Says Demers: "Some prostaglandins made by the uterus precipitate the contractions that are necessary for menses and labor. But when they're produced in excess, the uterine muscle cramps." Carried through the bloodstream to other parts of the body, the prostaglandins trigger additional discomfort...
...title verse: "All things gross and angrenous. All creatures gross and squat." Nature Writer Edward Hoagland parodied the books in the New York Times: " 'It's time t'awd bitch was up,' I said. I put my arm up her lug end to untwist her uterus ... 'If tha'll just wipe off the fly that's on my snout, Colonel,' I said...
Some pro-choice biologists counter that human life does not begin until the fetus becomes viable, by which they mean sufficiently developed to survive outside the uterus. In 1973, when the Supreme Court gave women the legal right to have abortions up to the moment of viability, that age was placed at between 24 to 28 weeks. Since then the age at which a fetus is considered viable by medical experts has slowly dropped; doctors are now able to keep alive fetuses as young as 20 weeks and weighing 500 gm (1.1 Ibs.). Indeed, Dr. Norman Post of the Medical...