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...cell under the egg's outer layer. To complete the process, an electrical current fuses the new cell to the egg. The embryo starts to divide until, within days, the mass of cells grows to about 100 and is big enough to be implanted in the surrogate mother's uterus...
...confused with the morning-after pill, which doctors believe prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall, mifepristone causes miscarriage by blocking the hormone progesterone, which is needed to maintain a pregnancy. Mifepristone is followed 48 hours later by a second drug, called misoprostol, which forces the uterus to contract; the fetus is expelled several hours later. When taken within 49 days of the last period, the two-drug combination is 95% effective...
...only be a pitiful freak. Mid-20th century Freudians urged women to put aside ambition and masochistically (their word) submit to the maternal instinct. In the 19th century, gynecologists warned that any use of the female intellect--from novel reading to higher education--could foreclose motherhood by causing the uterus to, quite literally, wither away. Happiness was a full womb and a vacant mind...
...fetus' heart may already have stopped beating when Nereciana died. The cause of her death remains unknown: pre-eclampsia may have brought on seizures, or her uterus may have ruptured. But a larger cause is blisteringly clear: Rwanda is a nation so poor in goods and so weak in spirit that it cannot even give birth to a future. Nereciana's death, a tragedy that still lives in Joseph's sad eyes, was part of the slow genocide of hope, a sin that can be undone only by the miracle of an outside world that cares...
...estrogen taken alone, a therapeutic option that is now reserved for women who have undergone hysterectomies. That's because experience has shown that "unopposed estrogen," as doctors call it, elevates the risk of uterine cancer. By adding progestin to the mix, physicians have found, they can protect the uterus from malignant growth. The question Schairer and her colleagues have raised is whether this victory over one form of cancer came at the price of increased risk for another...