Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Originally, Edelin was accused of "ruthless and reckless conduct" toward a 20-24-week-old aborted fetus when, the prosecution maintained, it was still alive outside its mother's body...
...prosecution's top witness, Dr. Enrique Giminez-Jimeno, testified at the first trial that the fetus died within the womb while Edelin kept his hand in the uterus through an abdominal incision...
Homans said yesterday he believes Edelin was convicted because the jury had been influenced to decide that a fetus could be considered alive after it is separated from the placenta inside the uterus...
...material sacrifices, and virtually all of them came still laden with reservations. Compelled by family, friends or circumstances, they chose abortion as a last resort. One woman prays that God will forgive her for her sin. Many of those interviewed equate abortion with murder. Others do not define the fetus as a human being. Often these women feel that they have no other recourse and in a very real sense, they do not, for our society denies adequate financial and psychological support to unwed mothers and unwanted children...
...patients. At least technically, their part in the decision to perform an operation can be as difficult and as uncertain as that of the women; medical and legal risks are everpresent and diverse--there is not even a definite consensus as to the period of gestation after which a fetus should not be aborted...