Exposure of 26-week fetus through hysterotomy revealing sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT). From Wordnik.com. [Sacrococcygeal Teratoma (SCT), Sacrococcygeal Tumor Treatment] Reference
In the hysterotomy, he removed the fetus through an incision in its mother's abdomen peeling it from the wall of the womb and scooping it out along with the afterbirth. From Wordnik.com. [When Is An Abortion Not An Abortion?] Reference
Consider: in 1973 a team of Finnish and American scientists decapitated a dozen human fetuses, each aborted live through hysterotomy, and kept the heads alive artificially for study. From Wordnik.com. [A Search For Limits] Reference
One of these witnesses even suggested that the gasps had come during the earlier attempts at saline infusion, and that the fetus had died at that time -- before the hysterotomy began. From Wordnik.com. [When Is An Abortion Not An Abortion?] Reference
D&E/D&X are preferred over labor induction, hysterotomy and hysterectomy procedures, where they are possible, specifically because they have documented lower morbidity and mortality rates. From Wordnik.com. [Abortion on demand and without apology (Kiwi edition)] Reference
On October 3, 1973, Edelin performed a legal abortion at the request of a pregnant seventeen year-old, completing the operation by hysterotomy or mini-Cesarean, after three attempts at saline infusion failed. From Wordnik.com. [When Is An Abortion Not An Abortion?] Reference
It is possible to just remove the fetus from the womb and let it die naturally (hysterotomy). From Wordnik.com. [dangerous idea] Reference
Bond SJ, Harrison MR, Slotnick RN, Anderson J, Flake AW, Adzick NS: Cesarean delivery and hysterotomy using an absorbable stapling device. From Wordnik.com. [CHOP general fetal medicine publications] Reference
It is perfectly legal to drown them in a bucket of water, the equivalent to a hysterotomy abortion wherein the baby is drowned in amniotic fluid. From Wordnik.com. [ProLifeBlogs] Reference
The subject fetuses were "derived from either hysterectomy or hysterotomy... undertaken in the interest of the health, sanity or life of the mother.". From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Second of all, to quote from the judge’s summary of the medical evidence, “a hysterotomy is significantly riskier than a D&E and has serious implications for the woman’s future reproductive health.”. From Wordnik.com. [Pro-Lifers Lose “Partial-Birth” Abortion Ban Case] Reference
And for those who claim to care about life – compared to a D&X (’Partial Birth Abortion’), there is a far higher risk of the death of the mother in birth and in a hysterotomy (the two other options to a D&X). From Wordnik.com. [That Kind of News Day « Whatever] Reference
Certainly someone who believes that any form of abortion in which the fetus is killed or left to die is morally unacceptable will certainly not join me in my subsequent argument that, in real-world cases, where any form of labor or hysterotomy or hysterectomy significantly increases the medical impact, pain, and probabilities of morbidity and mortality, women do have a right of self-defense to avoid that by, e.g., having the provider collapse the fetus’s skull before it is pushed through the cervix. From Wordnik.com. [Abortion on demand and without apology (Kiwi edition)] Reference
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