Word: edelin
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...Kenneth C. Edelin said last night the district attorney who successfully prosecuted the Boston physican in an abortion-related namslaughter trial was guilty of "gross misuse of public office...
...Edelin said Newman A. Flanagan, assistant district attorney of Suffolk County, used "evidence of the most inflammatory kind" in indicting and prosecuting him one year...
...Edelin trial proves nothing but that we are still trying to impose metaphysics upon the law when history has repeatedly shown that the result is nothing but a list of martyrs. Viability is for the physicians, the godliness of a seed for the theologians. While a fetus is still a part of a woman's body and the birth certificate is unsigned, the state has the rights of only one citizen within its jurisdiction: those of the woman patient...
...world's best fetologists cannot agree among themselves when viability begins. Pathologists with the evidence in their hands cannot agree on the exact gestational age of this particular fetus. But the jury in the Edelin trial can agree. So certain are they, that they convicted a man of manslaughter...
...antiabortionists who began this farce don't give two hoots in hell for the life of that fetus. But they needed a goat, and on a certain day in October 1973 it just happened to be Dr. Edelin...