Word: edelin
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...Pittsburgh, Pa., pathologist testified yesterday in Boston that the fetus Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin is accused of killing breathed before it died, and Edelin's defense quickly sought to discredit the witness...
...Edelin is charged with manslaughter in Suffolk County Superior Court in connection with a hysterotomy operation he performed on a pregnant woman on October 3, 1973, at Boston City Hospital...
Prosecutor Newman A. Flanagan, assistant district attorney, alleges that Edelin allowed a "male child" to be born "detached from the mother" in the course of that operation, and then permitted...
Ward said that slides of lung tissue from the fetus involved in the Edelin case displayed collapsed, partially-collapsed and expanded alveoli, or air spaces. He concluded that the state of the lung cells was due to respiration of air by the fetus before it died...
Those three to five minutes may become a turning-point in the trial, cross-examination indicated earlier this week. Homans seemed prepared to argue that Edelin took three to five minutes to perform what is usually a shorter operation, not because he was allowing a fetus to breathe and then suffocate, but because the amniotic sac which envelops the fetus had burst, drawing out the operation...