Word: edelin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial hadn't yet started, but Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin, seated in his small green office in the recesses of the Boston City Hospital, was trying to convince a reporter that the Suffolk County prosecutor, with the help of an emotional case, really did have a prospect for conviction with the manslaughter indictment of Edelin...
Fifty-one days later, defense attorney William P. Homans Jr. '41 was rocking nervously on his haunches in a back corridor adjacent to the drab courtroom where for the past six weeks he and the prosecutor had argued over Edelin's guilt or innocence...
...Edelin was convicted for the death of a fetus following a legal abortion he performed on October 3, 1973. Although the prosecution realized that it could not prosecute abortion, it succeeded in affirming, by the conviction, that an abortion can result in a birth, and that a doctor is responsible for the fetus during such an operation...
...Edelin's continuing defense--involving appeals to Judge James P. McGuire and to the state Supreme Court--has drawn demonstrations of support al along the East Coast...
...will also offer Radcliffe students today and Monday a ballot on which they may register approval or rejection of a proposed allocation of RUS funds to the Edelin Defense Fund...