Word: edelin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edelin appealed the conviction and the Massachusetts Supreme Court overturned the original decision in December 1976, clearing him of all charges...
Along with serving as department chairman, Edelin assumes the post of head of the Boston City Hospital's department of obstetrics and gynecology...
Katherine Healy, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, said yesterday she was "disturbed" by the decision to have Edelin head the department because "I really wonder what effect this will have on medical school applicants who are pro-life...
...Edelin said, "The chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology does not determine who gets into medical school. Besides, in admissions the subject of abortion never comes...
...Edelin's acquital is regarded as one of the most important decisions on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling legalizing abortion. After the acquital, Dr. Kenneth Ryan, professor of obstetrics at the Harvard Medical School, said the case was significant because it would "take some of the weight off of physicians who perform abortions...