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...Pittsburgh, Pa., pathologist testified yesterday in Boston that the fetus Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin is accused of killing breathed before it died, and Edelin's defense quickly sought to discredit the witness...
...John F. Ward said that slides of a cross-section of lung tissue from the dead fetus revealed a "lack of uniformity" in the expansion of the air spaces, which he said was evidence of respiration of air by the fetus...
Under examination by Flanagan, Ward testified that in a stillborn fetus air cells in the lung are uniformly expanded with fluid secreted by the lungs...
...prosecution alleges that in the course of the hysterotomy-type abortion, Edelin stood over the exposed womb of the 17-year-old patient with his hand in the uterus for a period of from three to five minutes, allowing the fetus to "suffocate...
Those three to five minutes may become a turning-point in the trial, cross-examination indicated earlier this week. Homans seemed prepared to argue that Edelin took three to five minutes to perform what is usually a shorter operation, not because he was allowing a fetus to breathe and then suffocate, but because the amniotic sac which envelops the fetus had burst, drawing out the operation...