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...security of the womb, Dr. Louis Gluck of San Diego's University Hospital has designed a tiny, heated water bed to simulate the warmth and buoyant pulsations of the baby's uterine environment. He also attached a tiny motor that provides motion similar to what the fetus experienced when the mother's heart beat and as she walked about. The preemie's sense of security is further heightened by the recorded sound of a pregnant mother's heartbeat piped into the artificial womb. Gluck hopes that his invention, which has been tested on only half...
After a six-week trial. Edelin was convicted by a nine-man, three-woman jury of manslaughter for the death of a fetus following a legal abortion he performed in October...
...said the defense had concentrated its efforts against the original charges that the fetus had been killed "completely inside or partially detached from the mother." While under a ruling finally given by McGuire in his charge to the jury, the fetus only becomes a person when it has breathed completely outside the mother...
Flanagan said that his proof that the fetus had been killed outside the mother was consistent with his original charge that it had been killed "partially removed" from her and was not a still birth as the defense had argued. The jury's judgement was that the fetus was born alive and therefore Edelin was guilt's of man slaughter Flanagan said...
...would have meant an implicit concession that the fetus had breathed at all, said Nesson...