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Ward said that slides of lung tissue from the fetus involved in the Edelin case displayed collapsed, partially-collapsed and expanded alveoli, or air spaces. He concluded that the state of the lung cells was due to respiration of air by the fetus before it died...
Homans established that a fetus undergoes "distress" when the placenta, its connection to the mother, is separated from the uterus, and that under such distress a fetus might begin to inhale and exhale the amniotic fluid that surrounds it within the amniotic...
...Pittsburgh University-educated pathologist also testified that the fetus died 26 weeks after it was conceived. The prosecution claims that the fetus was between 24 and 28 weeks old and could have lived if delivered at the time of the hysterotomy...
Measurements of the length and weight of the fetus in the Edelin case were made in an autopsy four months after the operation, but Ward questioned the accuracy of the weight measurement...
...said that the preservation of the fetus in Formalin, a liquid solution of formaldehyde, dehydrated the fetus so that it weighed less at the autopsy than it did at the time of the operation...