Word: fetal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Dr. Leonard D. Berman, assistant professor of Pathology; Dr. Leon D. Sabbath '52, then associate professor of Medicine; Dr. David Charles, and Dr. Agnetta Phillipson were indicted last April in connection with their fetal research, the concern that swept the medical community was not so simple. The doctors' experiments--published in The New England Medical Journal in June of 1973--had involved abortions, and area researchers saw the indictments as an effort by the authorities in this largely Roman Catholic community to arrest all fetal research. As Rudolph Pierce, Berman's attorney, said last week, "The issue here...
...actions outraged experimenters. Some doctors said the charges against their four colleagues amounted to a count of illegal abortion for a method of research they argued was standard. Scientists reported that the indictments successfully dissuaded further fetal experimentation at the time...
Since then, fetal research has been limited by the adoption this summer of a fetal-research bill by the Massachusetts legislature. This bill requires "parental consent" before a doctor may experiment on a fetus and prohibits both the culture of live fetal tissue after abortion and experimentation on a fetus while it is still in the womb...
Flanagan says now that the indictments were not aimed at the scientific community. "A lot of people want to tie this up with fetal research," he said last week. "But this doesn't have anything to do with fetal research...
...this is the question of just when dead fetal tissue becomes the tissue of a deceased human being...