Word: womb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state's case against Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin appears to rest on the premise that the hysterotomy operation was a birth and not as abortion, in spite of either the patient's of the doctor's intention. A hysterotomy involves incision into the womb and detachment of the placenta from the uterine wall, and the prosecution says that when the placents was detached cutting off the fetus's dependence on the mother, that fetus was born. It alleges that Edelin, by allowing the fetus to die in the course of the operation, is guilty of manslaughter...
...gallery was quiet as Edelin assumed an intense, slight hunch above the now-clear table and poised his long, thin hands 15 inches above the solid oak at the same level where, if this were operating room number two of the Boston City Hospital on October 3, 1973, the womb of a 17 year-old woman would have lain open and bleeding. Edelin twisted his head 140 degrees backwards and fixed his eyes on a spot where, if this really were operating room number two, two clocks maybe two broken clocks--would have been mounted on the wall...
Flanagan alleges that on October 3, 1973, Edelin stood over the patient and, with his eyes fixed on the operating room clock, held his left hand motionless within her open womb for a period of between three and five minutes. And that only when he was satisfied it was dead, Edelin extracted the fetus. And that this fetus had for a brief period been alive, and had even breathed, and that this fetus was "viable" and could have survived on his own outside the woman who had requested the abortion. But, through the actions of Kenneth Edelin, this "male child...
...optimistic claim that "if you went to Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., you might have to worry about a job, but at Harvard you don't have to worry," many of our fears remain unstilled. We question what value our education will have when we leave Harvard's womb, and few of us can be certain of the answer. Some of us see, whatever other motives are involved, that lawyers and doctors are always in demand, and scurry off to professional schools; the rest of us wait and wonder...
Edelin said that he decided on October 2, 1973, to perform the hysterotomy operation after two unsuccessful attempts to abort the fetus by injection of saline solution into the womb...