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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/views/03essa.html?_r=2& " The familiar symbol of illegal abortion is the infamous “coat hanger”
— which may be the symbol, but is in no way a myth. In my years in New
York, several women arrived with a hanger still in place. Whoever put it
in — perhaps the patient herself — found it trapped in the cervix and
could not remove it. We did not have ultrasound, CT scans or
any of the now accepted radiology techniques. The woman was placed under
anesthesia, and as we removed the metal piece we held our breath,
because we could not tell whether the hanger had gone through the uterus
into the abdominal cavity. Fortunately, in the cases I saw, it had not.
However, not simply coat hangers were used.
Almost any implement you can imagine had been and was used to start an
abortion — darning needles, crochet hooks, cut-glass salt shakers, soda
bottles, sometimes intact, sometimes with the top broken off.
Another method that I did not encounter, but heard about from colleagues
in other hospitals, was a soap solution forced through the cervical
canal with a syringe. This could cause almost immediate death if a
bubble in the solution entered a blood vessel and was transported to the
heart.
The worst case I saw, and one I hope no one else will
ever have to face, was that of a nurse who was admitted with what looked
like a partly delivered umbilical cord. Yet as soon as we examined her,
we realized that what we thought was the cord was in fact part of her
intestine, which had been hooked and torn by whatever implement had been
used in the abortion. It took six hours of surgery to remove the
infected uterus and ovaries and repair the part of the bowel that was
still functional."
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