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...chief prosecution witness then testified that the fetus died within the womb because Edelin kept his hand in the uterus through an abdominal incision. The presiding judge at the trial said a manslaughter victim had to be "alive outside the body of the mother." Nonetheless, Edelin was convicted...
...study reported in the February issue of The New England Journal of Medicine confirms the association between the use of estrogen and cancer of the uterus...
...fastest and most painful abortions in Chicago. He makes a pencil mark on the leg of his scrub suit for each abortion and tallies them up at the end of the day. In their haste, doctors often fail to remove all the necessary tissue. Sometimes they perforate the uterus or vagina...
...told her he did not want the child. On June 8 they traveled to Louisville to find a clinic that would perform an abortion. None would handle a pregnancy beyond 18 weeks. In the bathroom of their hotel room, Pitchford inserted a six-inch knitting needle into her uterus. "I just wasn't thinking rationally," she recalled later. "I felt like dying...
Such pregnancies are disturbingly common. Of 3.1 million babies born in the U.S. each year, nearly 30,000 do not survive their first week. Many are born prematurely and weigh less than 5½ lbs. Another 20,000 die in the uterus late in pregnancy. While the number of doctors and nurses with the skills needed to deal with such cases is growing, they are often situated at scattered medical centers not easily accessible to women and infants who most need them...