Word: edelin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Suffolk County District Attorney's office will argue in court today that WGBH should not be allowed to televise a dramatization of the Edelin trial next week, Sylvia Davis, Creative Manager at the public television station said yesterday...
...tiny cubicle that houses the director of abortion services at Boston Hospital for Women, Dr. Phillip G. Stubblefield '62 sat back at his desk, taking a break after overseeing an abortion. Yes, he said, the conviction last spring of Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin for manslaughter, in connection with the abortion he performed, has made it more difficult for a woman with an advanced pregnancy--within or later than the second trimester--to get an abortion in Boston. Doctors, he said, "are hesitant to perform a late abortion past 20 weeks; we might have become more liberal...
...alarmist, particularly considering his vantage point. The service he runs, and the similar if smaller ones at Mass General, Boston City Hospital and Beth Israel, are the major Boston facilities performing late abortions and they all have had to contend, in their policy-making, with last spring's Edelin conviction...
After the first trimester the whole procedure becomes infinitely more complex and more expensive (in the $350 to $500 range), and requires hospitalization. And, too, the Edelin indictment has politically complicated the problem of getting a late abortion, often forcing women in a late stage of pregnancy to seek an abortion in another area--either New York or Washington, which are both known for their very liberal abortion laws...
...Kenneth J. Ryan, chief of staff at Boston Hospital for Women and Ladd Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, acknowledged that the Edelin decision had affected the facility and frequency of late abortions being performed in Boston hospitals. "According to the Supreme Court, abortions are still legal, but considering the Edelin case, a number of doctors are reluctant to undertake any late abortions." Stubblefield also said that "things are really tight for women wanting midtrimester abortions. Doctors are worried about the law and the community and who's going to pay." However, he criticized those local hospitals that have reduced...