A doctor describes an abortion complication that he witnessed:
“What happened was this guy perforated; he thought it was the cord and pulled out – they measured in the laboratory – 8 feet of small bowels… He panicked and blew his cool. He got the 8 feet out know what he did? He cut it with scissors and then he put it in the bucket and then he called me.
So she’s in the hospital. She had a bowel repair, and the general surgeon finished and everybody’s telling me to do a hysterectomy on this 17-year-old kid from Birmingham, Alabama, no children. I decided no. She had a hole in the top of her uterus; I opened it up and removed the fetus… We sewed up the uterus… The patient had a very stormy course but she left the hospital with her pre-reproductive organs and she was okay… What I do want to know, and I’ve always wondered about these many, many years, was whether this kid never had any children.”
Dr. Rothstein
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 119
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