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...Edelin Case...
...FEBRUARY a Boston jury convicted a City Hospital obstetrician of manslaughter for the death of a fetus. Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin had aborted the fetus during an October 3, 1973, operation on a 17-year-old pregnant woman. Abortion, however, was not the issue, according to the prosecution. Newman A. Flanagan, the prosecutor, argued that the special nature of the operation produced, for a least one split second, a live birth, and that the subsequent death of the "baby" constituted an act of manslaughter...
Flanagan conducted the investigation in Boston City Hospital in the fall of 1973 that produced the grand jury indictments of the team of experimenters, as well as that of Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin on a manslaughter charge, Edelin was convicted in February...
Newman A. Flanagan, the Suffolk County assistant district attorney who successfully prosecuted Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin for manslaughter, said this week that he will also argue the commonwealth's case in the fetal experimentation indictments of four Boston City Hospital researchers...
Flanagan conducted the investigation at BCH in the fall of 1973 that produced the Edelin indictment--an investigation prompted by the four doctors' publication in the June 1973 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine of a study they had done using cultures of fetal tissue...