Word: endoscopist
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This glimpse of prenatal life is an extraordinary technical feat by a West German obstetrician, Dr. Hans Frangenheim, who helped develop the pencil-thin telescopic optics, and a Washington, D.C., endoscopist, Dr. John L. Marlow, who did the actual photography in a West German hospital. TV viewers are not told that, unlike the babies of the three mothers, the embryos shown were doomed. Because of the experimental nature of the photography-and the possible risk it posed-it was done only in the wombs of women about to undergo abortions...