Word: edelin
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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...
...period of waiting has been a tense time for Edelin. Still, he said he has never swayed from his original views that the decision whether or not to have an abortion should be a private one, made by a woman and her doctor...
...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...