Word: edelin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 1974 Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin was indicted for manslaughter after he performed an abortion without attempting to save the life of the fetus, aged somewhere around 24 weeks. After a trial necessarily involving the participants' personal moral judgements, the court found Edelin guilty on February...
...Boston City Hospital doctor appealed his case to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court six months ago, and today he is still awaiting its decision. Edelin said recently he expects the court will move soon, but added he has now been expecting its decision "soon" for the past several months...
...predict, or even hope, that the original court decision will be overturned. He said he was stunned when he was convicted two years ago, and is afraid to guess about the court's thinking now. "I have become a pessimist, since I was such an optimist during the trail," Edelin said. "I really didn't believe I could lost the case then...
...this would have legally constituted birth, according to the trial judge, James P. Maguire--but he could shout emotionally that "this is the case of a child that was born." Even given his contention that a child had been born, Flanagan could not prove that the alleged human life Edelin ended was "viable." All he could do was to argue against making patients and their doctors "the absolute judge of what the law is in this country." What Flanagan himself would like to do with the abortion law was clear...
...uncertain points of law been defined at the outset--had lawyers known what degree of separation from the mother constituted birth or even what constitutes abortion--the case might have been decided differently. The State Supreme Court must now acquit Edelin and return to women a symbol of their fundamental rights...