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...true situation. To announce that Edelin was guilty for an "abortion" is false. If an abortion had been committed, and if the jury had found it as such then under present law he would have been acquitted. Instead, the jury found that there was a chance that the fetus was viable that it was alive outside of the uterus. It further determined that through "negligence" Edelin had allowed the baby to die. That is the crime of manslaughter, and that was the reason for the verdict that was returned...
...jury members as "avoiding his (Edelin's) gaze" as they would enter the courtroom--obviously the jury members were evil people out to screw the good doctor. In reporting on page two the facts of the case, you have Edelin saying that he checked for life in the fetus for two to five seconds, and found none. You leave it at that, giving the impression that the fetus was indeed dead, and Edelin wasn't negligent at all. In fact, a defense witness under cross-examination had stated that at least ten seconds would have been necessary and that alternate...
...defense has met the prosecution on its own grounds, and has argued convincingly that even if this were a birth, the fetus could not have survived anyway. For its own case, it has shown that this never was a birth, that it was an abortion protected...
...treatment. It does this by defining as a birth an operation that was intended as an abortion and that was carried out under accepted medical procedure as an abortion. And it does this with a restrictive definition of birth that does not ever requires that the in involved fetus must have breathed...
Flanagan's case also depends on the allegation that if Edelin had allowed the fetus to survive the operation, it would have survived at least long enough to leave the hospital. This assumption depends on a proof that the fetus was viable, and if Flanagan gains a conviction, he will have defined viability in an extremely conservative way: at a gestational age as low as 20 weeks, Since the supreme Court has conceded to states the right to protect the "potentiality" for life by forbidding abortion after the point of viability regardless of the wishes of the mother, this case...