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Charles, Phillipson, Berman and Sabath were all charged with "illegal dissection." During the investigation, lawmen also turned up what they saw as incriminating evidence against another doctor, Kenneth Edelin, the chief resident obstetrician at Boston City Hospital, where the allegedly illegal experiment was performed...
...Edelin was linked with the separate death of a 24-week-old fetus in the fall of 1973 and was charged with "manslaughter...
...convicted of the charges. Neil Chayet, one of their attorneys, insists that the D.A. must prove that the aborted fetuses were human bodies as defined by law rather than fetuses with the potential of human life; he contends that such proof is impossible under Supreme Court rulings. In Edelin's case, the D.A. must show that the fetus he removed was alive upon delivery and could have been maintained by reasonable efforts...
...happy to provide it. His office conducted an eight-month study of abortions at the hospital and then charged the researchers and Dr. Leonard Berman, a pathologist who supplied them with fetal tissue, with the unauthorized use of a body. The investigators also came upon the records of Edelin, one of only two doctors at B.C.H. willing to perform abortions. In October 1973, Edelin used a saline injection to abort a woman believed to be 20 weeks pregnant. When the procedure failed to end the pregnancy, he performed a hysterotomy, a form of caesarean section, delivering a fetus that pathologists...
...indictments shocked doctors. "I just can't believe that I've been arrested, fingerprinted and mug shot for trying to find a way to prevent congenital syphilis," says Dr. Sabath. Hospital personnel were equally upset. Staff protests forced B.C.H. trustees to reverse their decision to suspend Edelin...