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...have read with interest your coverage of the Edelin trial in the past few weeks. What has interested me most however has not been the "tightly written, well-researched prose that has made The Crimson the most-quoted college newspaper in America." Rather, it has been with the fascinating new technique you have dredged up of distorting the facts to produce a lopsided picture of the situation: misusing words, leaving the prosecutor's testimony until the end of the trial, giving long soul-searching articles on the tragedy of Dr. Edelin. These do not seem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EDELIN TRIAL | 2/18/1975 | See Source »

...headline itself is a misrepresentation of the true situation. To announce that Edelin was guilty for an "abortion" is false. If an abortion had been committed, and if the jury had found it as such then under present law he would have been acquitted. Instead, the jury found that there was a chance that the fetus was viable that it was alive outside of the uterus. It further determined that through "negligence" Edelin had allowed the baby to die. That is the crime of manslaughter, and that was the reason for the verdict that was returned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EDELIN TRIAL | 2/18/1975 | See Source »

...state's case against Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin appears to rest on the premise that the hysterotomy operation was a birth and not as abortion, in spite of either the patient's of the doctor's intention. A hysterotomy involves incision into the womb and detachment of the placenta from the uterine wall, and the prosecution says that when the placents was detached cutting off the fetus's dependence on the mother, that fetus was born. It alleges that Edelin, by allowing the fetus to die in the course of the operation, is guilty of manslaughter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Edelin: Toss the Case Out | 2/12/1975 | See Source »

...prosecution is out to limit the practice of abortions--and not just those by hysterotomy. Assistant District Attorney and Prosecutor Newman A. Flanagan has to argue his case on this limited terrain because he knows that an abortion in October 1973 was legal, and that if he tried Edelin for abortion, the doctor could go free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Edelin: Toss the Case Out | 2/12/1975 | See Source »

Flanagan's case also depends on the allegation that if Edelin had allowed the fetus to survive the operation, it would have survived at least long enough to leave the hospital. This assumption depends on a proof that the fetus was viable, and if Flanagan gains a conviction, he will have defined viability in an extremely conservative way: at a gestational age as low as 20 weeks, Since the supreme Court has conceded to states the right to protect the "potentiality" for life by forbidding abortion after the point of viability regardless of the wishes of the mother, this case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Edelin: Toss the Case Out | 2/12/1975 | See Source »

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