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...said he was looking for the right patient. "When I find her, I am in a position to go ahead, but we cannot guarantee that this will be a success the first time." The reason for his doubt was that no one knows precisely what physiological mechanisms prepare the uterus to receive the conceptus and retain...
...childbearing age ovulates once every lunar month, an average of 14 days before the expected onset of menstruation. Her ovaries then expel one or more egg cells, ripe for fertilization. An individual egg (ovum) is drawn into the fallopian tube (oviduct) to begin a four-day journey toward the uterus. After intercourse, the husband's spermatozoa swim upstream through the uterus into the fallopian tubes, and if one sperm succeeds in penetrating an ovum, conception has occurred. The conceptus, repeatedly doubling the number of its cells, enters the uterus and imbeds itself in the lining for the remainder...
...human patients, or endangered them or their developing eggs. The resulting scenes (the ovary expelling an egg, for example) are indistinguishable from their human counterparts. Furthermore, human volunteers were used for the crucial scenes. The sequences showing fetal development in the womb were filmed on location-in-the uterus of a woman scheduled to undergo an abortion for medical reasons. They show the fetal heart, the serrated outline of the fetal spine and, finally, the fetus itself...
Baird accused Massachusetts Citizens for Life, the anti-abortion group, of attempting to make "every woman's uterus a ward of the state...
...study, based on 9811 low-income black women in Atlanta, Ga., did not reveal a connection between the pill and cancer of the lower portion of the uterus...