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...prosecution's top witness, Dr. Enrique Giminez-Jimeno, testified at the first trial that the fetus died within the womb while Edelin kept his hand in the uterus through an abdominal incision...
Homans said yesterday he believes Edelin was convicted because the jury had been influenced to decide that a fetus could be considered alive after it is separated from the placenta inside the uterus...
...speaks of the new dimension of life that is opened by being born again. The change is just as radical as the baby moving from the uterus environment to the air-breathing environment. One is shaken to the roots of his life; he finds a whole new orientation...
...criticize regular examinations for certain types of illnesses; some tests, in fact, do make economic and medical sense. For example, Vickery and Fries recommend routine blood-pressure tests for hypertension, inexpensive skin tests to spot tuberculosis, Pap smears for women over 25 to detect cancer of the uterus and cervix, and glaucoma examinations for people over the age of 40 if their families have had a history of the eye disease...
...uterine wall, where there would have been more difficulty in removing it. The fertilized egg was then implanted in the uterine wall of a second female that had been chosen as foster mother because she had ovulated on the same day as the genetic mother (which meant that her uterus was prepared to accept the embryo). The foster mother carried the developing fetus for 174 days and then gave birth to a normal male infant...