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William P. Homans Jr. '41, attorney for defendant Dr. Kenneth Edelin of Boston City Hospital, argued that the affidavit clearly demonstrated that the aborted fetus never breathed...
...prosecutor said that the hysterotomy operation Edelin performed on the mother was not by definition an abortion and could have been a delivery. "In the course of terminating a pregnancy," Flanagan said, Edelin allowed "a human being to come into effect," then killed...
...hysterotomy, however, the fetus is separated from the placenta while in the womb and soon dies deprived of oxygen. Flanagan had defined life in his prosecution as the state when the fetus breathes and maintains a heartbeat independent of the mother. Late in the hearing, though, he suggested that Edelin could be convicted for manslaughter even if the alleged victim had only a "potential" for life...
...publication of the paper, a study of the effect on a fetus of penicillin administered to the pregnant woman. The four defendants were not only charged with carrying off the tissue, but in a separate count with "aiding" the alleged transport. In a related case, Dr. Kenneth Edelin, chief obstetrician at BCH, was charged on the same day with manslaughter, in connection with the "death" of a 24-week-old fetus...
...contends the alleged decedent named in the indictment became a human body, human being, or person." Whether the lawyers will accept Flanagan's "live-and-kicking" thesis remains to be seen, but it's a good bet that Flanagan will make his case first as the prosecutor in the Edelin man-slaughter trial, which begins probably in October and could raise the same thorny issue...