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Homans asked for a more specific definition of "chance for survival" and Kennedy testified that if there was a one in 500 chance that the fetus could have survived, it was viable...
Homans cited a list of scientific papers on the effect of preservation in Formalin on tissue weight and, after establishing that Ward was familiar with none of them, suggested that the doctor was not qualified to speculate on the age of the fetus...
...defense attorney implied that Ward had employed standards of measurement in interpreting figures from the autopsy that would yield a contrived and exaggerated estimate of the age of the fetus...
Flanagan immediately stood up and asked if this definition of viability also applied to a fetus that faces a "two-to-one" prospect of survival. Kennedy said that...
Flanagan said that the introduction of witnesses that at delivery were "younger than this particular subject, smaller than this particular subject, and weighed less than this particular subject" would show that the fetus in the Edelin case was indeed viable...