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...decision. Last June they found an opportunity. Three Boston City Hospital researchers - Drs. Agneta Philipson, L.D. Sabath and David Charles - described in the New England Journal of Medicine their experiments to determine how effectively two antibiotics designed to treat congenital syphilis passed through the placenta from mother to fetus. To get their results, they had administered the drugs to women who had come to the hospital for abortions and then measured the levels of the medicines in the aborted fetuses...
...Edelin, one of only two doctors at B.C.H. willing to perform abortions. In October 1973, Edelin used a saline injection to abort a woman believed to be 20 weeks pregnant. When the procedure failed to end the pregnancy, he performed a hysterotomy, a form of caesarean section, delivering a fetus that pathologists estimated to be between 22 and 24 weeks old. Despite Edelin's insistence that the fetus was dead on delivery, the D.A. charged the doctor with manslaughter...
However, the measures would not allow researchers to administer drugs to pregnant women who do not need them medically, then induce abortion in an attempt to determine the extent to which the drug is passed on to the fetus...
...abortion is the termination of pregnancy to the detriment of the fetus, then what does it matter what is done to it before abortion?" Berman said. "It isn't sensitive and doesn't feel pain...
Edelin, who is not affiliated with Harvard, faces charges of manslaughter in the death of a 24-week old fetus. He pleaded innocent Wednesday...