Word: fetal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edelin acknowledged after skimming passages from the tests that he could not find references to abortions in excess of 20 weeks fetal age, but that none of the books "set an upper limit" on abortion
However, during cross-examination in the afternoon session yesterday, Homans picked at Ward's testimony, suggesting that he had confused his standards for measuring fetal age, and that the estimate of 26 weeks was exaggerated...
Homans showed that a table of "crown to heel," or head to toe, fetal measurement that the pathologist had testified was to be found in a certain scientific paper could not in fact be found there. That paper did include a correlation of "crown to rump" fetal measurement with certain fetal ages...
...Suffolk County district attorney's investigation at City Hospital that ultimately produced Edelin's indictment began in mid-1973 shortly after researchers from BCH published a study using fetal experimentation in the June 1973 New England Journal of Medicine...
...grand jury was investigating fetal research at Boston City Hospital (BCH) and Edelin, a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at BCH, said last week that he thought he had been subpoenaed simply to give evidence on hospital procedure...