Word: edelin
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...Edelin was convicted by a Suffolk County Superior Court jury on February 15, 1975, for allegedly causing the death of a 22-24 week old fetus after an abortion performed at Boston City Hospital...
William P. Homans Jr. '41, who represented Edelin at his trial, argued for the first half hour that the prosecution failed to prove that "the fetus was born alive outside the mother...
Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law, speaking on behalf of Edelin, concluded the appeal, saying that because it could not be adequately proved that the fetus was "viable" when still inside the body of its mother, the state had no power to impose a criminal sanction on Edelin...
However, assistant district attorney Newman A. Flanagan, who prosecuted the original case against Edelin, said, "This case is the case of a child that was born...
...defense challenged the testimony of the chief prosecution witness, Dr. Enrique Giminez, who said that Edelin, in performing the abortion, held his fingers inside the uterus for three minutes in order to assure the death of the fetus...