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COMMITTEE ON MATERNAL WELFARETwo Deaths from Mid-trimester AbortionCase 1. A 23-year-old gravida 3, para 2, was dead on arrival with the breech and trunk of a 650-g fetus protruding from the introitus. After delivery of the head, about 1/4 of the placenta was found still firmly implanted; it was removed manually. A small recent puncture wound was detected halfway between symphysis and umbilicus, and the patient was quite obviously exsanguinated. The husband had learned only that morning that trans-abdominal intra-amnionic saline infusion had been performed on the previous day in another state, where she had given a fictitious . . .

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