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...Edelin, confident that his conviction would be overturned, promptly returned to work as chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology (OBG) at Boston City
Hospital-where the obstetrics nursing staff had hung a banner reading: WELCOME HOME, DR. EDELIN. Nonetheless, the verdict had already sent a shock wave through hospital OBG services across the country and heated the simmering abortion controversy back to a full boil...
...Edelin's conviction, which resulted from the abortion of a 20-or 22-week-old fetus, should have no direct effect on a woman's right to elect an abortion in the first trimester (three months) of pregnancy-within 14 weeks after the last menstrual period. Abortions at this stage are relatively simple, virtually bloodless procedures; they account for about 800,000 of the 900,000 legal abortions now performed annually in the U.S. Under the 1973 Supreme Court ruling, first-trimester abortions are essentially free of regulation but must be performed by a licensed physician...
...would seem to provide obstetricians with an ample safety margin. Although an 18-week fetus (see cut) looks like a baby and can suck its thumb, the chance of survival for any fetus less than 24 weeks old and weighing an average 630 gm. (about 1% Ibs.) is slim. (Edelin's abortion produced a fetus of 600 gm. after a gestation that he had estimated at about 20 weeks.) Between 24 and 28 weeks is a gray zone in which few fetuses attain the weight or organ development needed to survive outside the womb. It is only...
Others, particularly Boston's famed medical community, have staunchly stood their ground. Boston City Hospital issued a "statement of support" and called Edelin "an outstanding physician whose professional performance has been and continues to be at the highest level... consistent with the highest prevailing standards of medical care, and we strongly reaffirm his continuing staff appointment." The hospital does not intend to change its abortion regulations. At Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, Dr. Louis Burke, head of OBG, declared: "I think it's a travesty of justice. This man was working in the context of the Supreme...