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...along the convoluted lining of the fallopian tube like a miniature moon over a mountain range. Sperm, their tails thrashing, cluster together like salmon awaiting a signal to leap a waterfall. Cells, pulsing with life, divide and reproduce. Finally, in a scene reminiscent of the fadeout of 2001, a fetus, its already human form visible through a transparent amniotic sac, fills the screen. These spectacular images (see following pages) are not the products of a Hollywood special effects department. They are frames from a half-hour film that dramatically shows the actual process of conception and the earliest stages...
...human volunteers were used for the crucial scenes. The sequences showing fetal development in the womb were filmed on location-in-the uterus of a woman scheduled to undergo an abortion for medical reasons. They show the fetal heart, the serrated outline of the fetal spine and, finally, the fetus itself...
Edelin was linked with the separate death of a 24-week-old fetus in the fall of 1973 and was charged with "manslaughter...
Neil L. Chayet '57, attorney for Charles, says the statute forbids "unlawful conveyance of a dead body." This aspect of the case calls to question just whan a fetus becomes a baby, and the Supreme Court's distinction between over-six-months and under-six-months is apt to become a sore point of contention...
...doctors probably will not be convicted of the charges. Neil Chayet, one of their attorneys, insists that the D.A. must prove that the aborted fetuses were human bodies as defined by law rather than fetuses with the potential of human life; he contends that such proof is impossible under Supreme Court rulings. In Edelin's case, the D.A. must show that the fetus he removed was alive upon delivery and could have been maintained by reasonable efforts...