Word: edelin
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Regarding the case of Dr. Kenneth Edelin [Mar. 3]: on Friday the judge charges the jury that for a guilty verdict they must be certain "beyond a reasonable doubt" that Dr. Edelin is guilty of manslaughter. On Saturday the jury is certain, the verdict "guilty." Soon a juror is telling reporters she regrets her "guilty" vote. Another juror is "clicking his heels" in happiness over the light sentence, and still another is "tickled pink" for the same reason. Since their verdict could have sent a man to jail for 20 years, isn't it imperative that we educate potential...
...Your Dukes and Mad About Mintz. The Edelin trial is over, but there seem to be more farces in town than ever. The choice between these two is clear tradeoff between immediate gratification and helping out a good cause. Put Up Your Dukes is excellent--clearly the best Pudding Show in the last three years and possibly longer. It's everything it should be, with a very funny script that dips from fairly sophisticated Intellectual humor to suggestive double entendre. Mad About Mintz is undergoing some cuts which should make its first act tighter, but what's chiefly interesting about...
Right-to-lifers are moving against abortion on other legal fronts. In Boston, for example, the anti-abortion movement has obtained indictments against three Boston researchers who used tissue from dead fetuses for research. The chief prosecutor in the Edelin trial, Newman Flanagan, now plans to turn his full attention to the case pending against the three. Activists in Long Island's Nassau County have prompted inquiries by both local and federal prosecutors into allegations that aborted live fetuses were allowed to die in the county medical center. Last week the center turned over to the district attorney...
National Debate. Dr. Ryan of the Boston Hospital for Women hopes that the Edelin case will have an effect similar to that of the 1925 Scopes trial, at which the teaching of evolution was debated. Although Scopes was found guilty, the resulting public outcry led to a national debate that in turn eventually produced an enlightened consensus on evolution. Perhaps, says Ryan, the uproar over the Edelin verdict will help eventually to bring a reasonable accommodation among those who back abortion and those who oppose it. In the light of the strong passions that the issue arouses today, however, that...
...privy to all the facts in the Edelin case and thus obviously can take no position on it, but the A.M.A. must now develop a policy on abortions in the second trimester. Certainly appeal is a matter of due process and the A.M.A. does not oppose this action...