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...because his mother supported the establishment of an abortion-information clinic. Father Roussin and Monsignor Meehan have failed to grasp the basic moral premise of the prolife philosophy: the child, born or unborn, should never be discriminated against for the sins or misfortunes of his parents. For example, a fetus should not be punished by murder because his father was a rapist or his mother was pregnant out of wedlock. The fetus, and by extension the infant, is always considered innocent, blameless and deserving of protection...
...indictments capped a two-month investigation by the district attorney's office that was prompted by the publication of the paper, a study of the effect on a fetus of penicillin administered to the pregnant woman. The four defendants were not only charged with carrying off the tissue, but in a separate count with "aiding" the alleged transport. In a related case, Dr. Kenneth Edelin, chief obstetrician at BCH, was charged on the same day with manslaughter, in connection with the "death" of a 24-week-old fetus...
Since then, fetal research has been limited by the adoption this summer of a fetal-research bill by the Massachusetts legislature. This bill requires "parental consent" before a doctor may experiment on a fetus and prohibits both the culture of live fetal tissue after abortion and experimentation on a fetus while it is still in the womb...
...latter case held that this right obtains even where a husband objects. "In both cases a great deal of authority is given to the mother," Chayet added. A national commission is now considering resolutions that would limit the authority a woman has to permit research on her fetus, but its findings would ostensibly have no effect on the case of the four Boston doctors...
...Supreme Court, in that 1973 decision, implied that this transition occurs at gestational age 24 to 28 weeks, as this is the period when a fetus grows "viable"--when it can live away from its mother. Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29 thus ruled that abortions should be allowed through the 24th week of pregnancy, at which point the state's "legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life" would overcome the right of the mother as an individual...