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...operation was a birth and not as abortion, in spite of either the patient's of the doctor's intention. A hysterotomy involves incision into the womb and detachment of the placenta from the uterine wall, and the prosecution says that when the placents was detached cutting off the fetus's dependence on the mother, that fetus was born. It alleges that Edelin, by allowing the fetus to die in the course of the operation, is guilty of manslaughter...
Edelin is charged in Suffolk County with killing a fetus which the prosecution says was 24 weeks in gestational age and could have lived if Edelin had allowed it to survive the October 1973 operation...
...fetus Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin aborted could not have lived because its lungs were not well enough developed to breathe, an obstetrician testified yesterday at Edelin's manslaughter trial in Boston...
Allen Barnes, former chairman of the Johns Hopkins University department of obstetrics, said a three-minute wait during which Edelin is accused of holding the fetus motionless within the uterus was "perfectly all right...
...said that the delay during which the fetus (was allegedly deprived of oxygen after being separated from the uterine wall, presented "little damage to the mother and no danger to the fetus...