Word: uteruses
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...Blacks are proportionately more vulnerable than whites. Black men are 65% more likely to suffer from cancer of the prostate than whites, 250% more susceptible to cancer of the esophagus. Black women are 25% less likely to develop cancers of the breast or uterus than whites, but 115% more likely to get cancer of the cervix...
...Book Award for 1969. Blind cruelty, hypersensitivity and bizarre compulsions are particularly graphic in her new book. Medical students turn flamethrowers on laboratory monkeys in the name of science. Young geniuses are made to perform like sideshow freaks. A poetic intern confesses to having broiled and eaten a human uterus...
...Saline induction, which is used between the 16th and 24th weeks of pregnancy, is one of the more drastic means. A doctor inserts a needle through the patient's abdomen into the uterus, draws off most of the amniotic fluid in which the fetus floats and replaces it with a salt solution. The saline substance kills the fetus, and then a miniature labor begins-with real pain-and continues until the fetus is expelled some 24 to 72 hours later...
...Dilatation and curettage, usually done under general anesthesia, has long been used within the first twelve weeks. The cervix, or opening of the uterus, is dilated with a series of progressively larger sounds-thin, blunt-ended metal rods. Then the uterus itself is scraped with a dull-edged curette, a small spoon-shaped instrument, until all embryonic matter has been removed. The entire procedure can take as little as 15 minutes. When it is done under local anesthesia, it sometimes produces painful cramping, but many women can return to their homes or jobs only hours after it has been performed...
...York State recorded 21 fatalities in 1968, 24 in 1969; since the new law took effect, the state has recorded only eight, or 4.8 per 100,000 legal abortions. (The U.S. maternal-mortality rate is 27.4 per 100,000 births.) Abortion complications, which can include perforation of the uterus, hemorrhage and infection, are far less frequent in legal than in illegal procedures...