Word: edelin
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...jury for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on their oath present that Kenneth Edelin ... did assault and beat a certain person, to wit: a male child described to the said jurors as baby boy (blank) and by such assault and beating did kill the said person...
...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...
...indictment against Kenneth Edelin, 35, the first black chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Boston City Hospital, is more dramatic than accurate. No one seriously believes that the popular physician beat a baby to death. Nor does anyone take literally the charges that four of Edelin's colleagues exhumed human bodies to get tissues for a series of studies conducted at the hospital. Yet in a brace of cases that could have far-reaching implications for research as well as women's rights, all stand indicted. Edelin, who performed a demonstrably legal abortion, is accused of manslaughter...
...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...