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...trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin, a Boston City Hospital obstetrician charged with manslaughter in the death of a human fetus, will probably open this afternoon in Boston with the beginning of jury selection...
Both defense and prosecution predict a trial of perhaps a month's duration that could depend on a determination of the age at which a fetus becomes a human being and on considerations of medical ethics and complicated surgical procedures...
...issue is the age of the fetus. Flanagan alleges that the fetus was between 24 and 28 weeks old and could have lived...
...right-wing Deputy played a tape recording that sounded like a galloping horse and then cried to the silent Chamber: "You are listening to the heartbeat of a fetus of eight weeks and two days...
...done to a growing child's brain by their absence. Brain cells require protein, and they need it from the very moment that life begins. At least 80% of all human brain growth occurs between conception and the age of two. This growth cannot take place in the fetus if the mother is malnourished, and it cannot be accomplished in the infant if he is starving. Nor will it happen later. In many cases, brain development that does not occur when it is supposed to does not take place at all. Thus hunger is condemning countless thousands of infants...