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ABORTION. In 1973 the court ruled that a state cannot stop an abortion when a woman and her doctor decide that she will have one-so long as the fetus is not "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb." But does a woman's husband have any rights in the matter, and if she is an unmarried minor, can her parents forbid the abortion? Last week, by a vote of 6 to 3 on the first question and 5 to 4 on the second, the court ruled that neither husband nor parent may have "an absolute...
SINCE THE SUPREME Court decision on abortion, no one can deny a woman's legal right to terminate the life of an unborn fetus. But abortion remains an extremely sensitive moral issue, and the University should not offer a mandatory health insurance plan that covers non-therapeutic abortions...
...repeatedly argued, when a 17-year-old woman entered Boston City Hospital in late September 1973 requesting an abortion, Edelin observed the law regarding his practice--as far as the law went. Edelin determined that it was legal for him to perform the abortion after estimating that the fetus was less than 24 weeks old. But there the legal guidelines ended. No laws dictated what sort of abortion Edelin had to perform or what procedure he had to undertake after initial efforts at aborting the fetus failed. When Edelin used a hypodermic needle to penetrate the uterus, he was relying...
...larger issue, the higher court must dismiss the prosecution's case because it rests on a confusing and contradictory welter of evidence. As he did during the trial, Assistant District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan drowned his weak appeal in emotionalism. Flanagan could not contradict the overwhelming evidence that the fetus never lived outside of the mother's womb--only this would have legally constituted birth, according to the trial judge, James P. Maguire--but he could shout emotionally that "this is the case of a child that was born." Even given his contention that a child had been born, Flanagan...
...defense also challenged the reliability of prosecution medical witnesses' testimony that the fetus had breathed after being removed from the mother...