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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...
...Hayashi's film showing conception and fetal development must be fascinating. But there is tragic irony in his statement about the film teaching youngsters to be "awed by the value of life." The youngster who starred in the film was aborted...
Dick Lamm, 34, began his political career in 1966 by winning an at-large seat in the Colorado state legislature. A year later he introduced one of the first laws in the nation to legalize abortion where fetal deformity or psychological hazard is likely to occur. Though the bill passed, he later came to believe it was too moderate and persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional. Lamm led the successful fight against holding the 1976 Winter Olympics in Colorado. Now he is the man to beat for Colorado's 1974 Democratic gubernatorial nomination...