Word: edelin
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...issues of abortion. We must guard against local jurisdictions or vocal minorities imposing their ethical positions for medical care in family planning and abortion on patients or doctors who do not hold those positions." This was obviously a reference to the composition of the Boston jury that convicted Dr. Edelin: ten of the twelve jurors were Roman Catholics, and the Catholic Church, though far from being alone in its opposition to abortion, is certainly the most vocal foe of the practice...
...reduction in the availability of legal abortions resulting from the Edelin verdict will affect principally-in the words of the New York Times-"the poor, badly educated younger women for whom the prospect of giving birth is a particularly great personal disaster." Many of the women who do not seek abortions until the second trimester are teen-agers who have concealed their condition from their parents as long as possible. Others are simply ignorant of the dangers of a late abortion, which, even under the best hospital conditions, are far greater than for a first-trimester procedure...
...predictable reaction to the Edelin verdict came from the organized, active and highly articulate anti-abortion forces. Dr. William Lynch, a Boston obstetrician who helped organize the anti-abortion National Commission for Human Life, expressed sympathy for Dr. Edelin but was pleased with the verdict. He was critical of the reaction of other doctors because "the only thing that will deter them from performing abortions is not the threat to human life, but the threat of a malpractice suit...
...Philadelphia, John Cardinal Krol reacted happily to the news (see Fo-RUM). This week in Los Angeles a group called Mobilization for the Unnamed was to rally in support of the Edelin conviction outside the California Medical Association Center. In general, the jubilation was a softer echo of the emotional outpouring that occurred in January on the second anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling, when a crowd estimated at 25,000 massed on the Capitol steps in Washington to protest what they called "a day of infamy." On that occasion, many carried placards reading: ABORTION IS MURDER...
Right-to-lifers are moving against abortion on other legal fronts. In Boston, for example, the anti-abortion movement has obtained indictments against three Boston researchers who used tissue from dead fetuses for research. The chief prosecutor in the Edelin trial, Newman Flanagan, now plans to turn his full attention to the case pending against the three. Activists in Long Island's Nassau County have prompted inquiries by both local and federal prosecutors into allegations that aborted live fetuses were allowed to die in the county medical center. Last week the center turned over to the district attorney...