The patient takes medication for schizophrenia, and because of past departures from the nursing home, the hospital agency had set up a special procedure to seek her whereabouts and monitor her condition.
Four days prior to her death, McKenna-Morbelli visited a Germantown, Md., abortion clinic to begin a several-day procedure to terminate her 33-week pregnancy after discovering her unborn child had developed fetal abnormalities.
The doctor who recommended sterilization, a permanent procedure to block her fallopian tubes to make her menstrual periods lighter and prevent pregnancy, was not trying to be cruel.
Because Cook had to remove such a large section of Steele's nose, he recommended that she undergo what's called a forehead flap procedure to rebuild her proboscis using a section of her forehead.
She already has about 25 tattoos on her body, and has undergone another risky procedure to split her tongue to make it appear forked.
After finding Ireland at fault for denying the woman an "effective or accessible procedure" to establish her right to a lawful abortion and thus violating her constitutional rights, the court ordered the Irish government to pay her 15,000 euros, about $20,000.
Ms. Wilcox played a plain-looking 19-year-old woman in a society of the future who resists a ritual "transformation" procedure to make her physically beautiful (she can choose from among standard models) and give her a longer life.
Her OB-GYN recommended she consider a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure to open her cervix and remove the tissue.
