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...defense contends that the involved fetus never breathed, and thus could not have suffocated, and that it was not a human being...
...prosecution alleges that the fetus was between 24 and 28 weeks old, and that the type of abortion Edelin was performing--by incision through the abdomen--should have resulted in the delivery of a baby...
...case has drawn national attention because it is likely to set precedents ih laws concerning abortion. The central issues are just when a fetus becomes a human being, and whether a doctor should be allowed to exercise his own judgement freely in considering whether an abortion should be performed. Testimony in the trial might also focus on the right of a pregnant woman to decide the fate of the fetus inside...
What Newman A. Flanagan, assistant district attorney in Suffolk County, had on Edelin was a photograph of the dead black fetus that he had seen in the morgue in the course of his investigations...
...gestational age of that fetus--and whether it was "viable" --are important issues in Edelin's trial this month...