Word: uterus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bear children because their Fallopian tubes have been blocked or damaged, usually by sexually transmitted infections. Yet the risk of tubal infertility can easily be reduced. How? By the use of so-called barrier contraceptives -- diaphragms, cervical caps and condoms -- which bar the passage of sperm into the uterus...
Rabbi Moses Tendler, professor of Jewish medical ethics at Manhattan's Yeshiva University, is no less affronted by what he calls the hiring of a "uterus for nine months." He maintains, "In the old days you could buy a whole person -- a slave -- to do with as you wished. Now, if these surrogate contracts are accepted, you'll be able to buy just a specific organ...
...works by adhering to certain hormone receptors in the uterus that under normal circumstances accept progesterone, the substance that prepares the uterine lining to receive a fertilized egg. Because the presence of RU 486 blocks the action of progesterone, the uterine lining sloughs off, and the embryo is expelled, as an unfertilized egg is during a normal period. Although bleeding is usually heavier than during menstruation, only a pregnancy test prior to receiving the drug will tell a woman for certain whether she has actually conceived...
...drug fails to induce abortion; all of the 15 women who sustained their pregnancies after receiving the drug had clinical abortions. Dr. Couzinet hopes to improve the success rate of RU 486 even further by mixing it with small amounts of prostaglandins, biological compounds that cause the uterus to contract and help expel the embryo. That combination, the French researchers say, should provide a 100% effective form of after-the-fact birth control. "There are between 40 million and 50 million abortions performed annually around the world," Couzinet says. "If we have found a safe, convenient medical method of terminating...
...argued that if abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy after fertilization, then Question 1 has ramifications for the availibility of birth control. The intrauterine device, morning-after medication and some of the low dose birth control pills work by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus and thus might be regulated, along with abortion, by the passage of Question...