Word: edelin
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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Judge James B. McGuire issued no opinion on his decision to allow the manslaughter case against Dr. Kenneth Edelin, a Boston City Hospital obstetrician, to go to trial in the Suffolk County Superior Court...
William P. Homans Jr. '41, attorney for Edelin, said yesterday that he is "disappointed" with the decision...
Homans argued ten days ago that the case should be dismissed because the prosecution had not shown that the fetus Edelin was accused of killing ever lived...
...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...