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...with millions of women. Between 1963 and 1973, for example, the dollar value of estrogen prescriptions increased nearly four times. But suspicion has been growing recently that estrogen treatment poses a significant risk for menopausal women; they apparently are more likely to develop cancer of the lining of the uterus...
...uterine cancer was strengthened last week by two reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. The first, a statistical study prepared by a team led by Dr. Noel Weiss of the University of Washington in Seattle, stated that between 1969 and 1973 the incidence of cancer of the uterus had generally increased from about 20% to 60%, depending on the geographical area surveyed, among middle-aged women. The magnitude of that increase, concluded the study, "has rarely been paralleled in the history of cancer reporting in this country." Added Weiss: "The important point is that it is unlikely that...
...movie deals with. Women who object to the assembly-line impersonality of hospital births should know that they can give birth at home, assisted by a trained midwife. They should know that sometimes doctors order hysterectomies for convenience and that if a patient insists on it, sometimes her uterus can be saved. They should think twice before signing a blanket consent form before breast surgery...
...fetus was less than 24 weeks old. But there the legal guidelines ended. No laws dictated what sort of abortion Edelin had to perform or what procedure he had to undertake after initial efforts at aborting the fetus failed. When Edelin used a hypodermic needle to penetrate the uterus, he was relying on his medical judgement; when those penetrations produced "bloody taps" and he undertook to open the uterus in an abdominal incision, his decision was again a medical, not a legal...
...defense challenged the testimony of the chief prosecution witness, Dr. Enrique Giminez, who said that Edelin, in performing the abortion, held his fingers inside the uterus for three minutes in order to assure the death of the fetus...