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Edelin, a Boston City Hospital obstetrician, was convicted in February in the Suffolk County Superior Court for the death of a fetus following a legal abortion he performed in October...
...Kenneth C. Edelin, an obstetrician at Boston City Hospital, was convicted of manslaughter here on February 15 for the death of a fetus following an abortion. Edelin is currently appealing the conviction...
...film's most spectacular sequences depicts the process of conception from ovulation to development of an obviously human fetus (TIME, June 24, 1974). Other segments of the film are no less impressive. In one, bones, muscle and the membrane of the middle ear vibrate in time to Yankee-Doodle, helping transmit sound to the brain. In yet another, blood cells line up to pass one at a time through the tightly constricted passageway of a tiny vein. But one scene, more than any other, suggests how far science must go before it fully understands the activities it has recorded...
...used to strike 4 million children a year, kill 400 and leave 800 with irreparable brain damage. By last year, the total number of cases was down to 22,000; only a handful had serious consequences. Much the same is true of German measles (rubella), the crippler of the fetus during pregnancy. From a high of 58,000 reported cases (far below the true total) in 1969, the number of rubella cases dropped to 12,000 last year, and only 45 infants were born with resulting deformities. Smallpox, dreaded and widespread as recently as 1930, is virtually nonexistent today...
...cause of the current parental apathy and neglect, New York's Commissioner Whalen suggests, is that many of today's preschoolers have mothers who are too young to have been aware of the great polio panics of the early 1950s, or of the fetus-crippling rubella epidemics of the early '60s. In ethnic ghettos, poverty, illiteracy and language barriers are also factors...