Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spent his career at Boston City Hospital attempting to preserve and prolong lives. Last week he was convicted of taking one. After seven hours of deliberation, a superior court jury of nine men and three women in Boston found him guilty of manslaughter in the death of a fetus that he had aborted. As a result of the verdict, the popular obstetrician faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years. If the decision is upheld on appeal and if it is accepted as valid precedent by other courts, many women around the country will be unable to obtain late...
...Supreme Court had struck down most state abortion laws and well before the Massachusetts legislature enacted a new set of regulations that outlaw abortions after the 24th week. At issue were Edelin's actions during and immediately after the operation. The prosecution charged that the male fetus, which Edelin had estimated to be 20 to 22 weeks along, was in fact older and thus capable of survival outside the womb. Once the abortion had been completed, said the district attorney's office, Edelin had an obligation to keep the fetus alive. By failing to do so, it maintained...
...weeks of the trial brought out widely differing views about when a fetus becomes viable (capable of independent life outside the womb), as well as conflicting answers to the question of whether-and if so, when-a fetus becomes a person. The defense argued that the death of the fetus is implicit in any abortion; the prosecution charged that abortion means only the termination of pregnancy and does not necessarily imply the death of the fetus as well. Conflicting evidence was presented on whether the fetus involved in the specific abortion was viable. Dr. John B. Ward, a Pittsburgh pathologist...
...former Boston City Hospital resident, Dr. Enrique Gimenez-Jimeno, testified for the prosecution that he had watched as Edelin held the aborted fetus inside the patient's uterus and counted off three minutes by the operating-room clock. His credibility-and that of the prosecution- was not helped when Defense Attorney William Homans Jr. showed, first, that Edelin would have had to turn away from the operating table to see the clock and, second, that even if he had turned, he could not have seen the clock on the day of the abortion. It had been removed for repairs...
...juror told reporters that "we all agreed the abortion was perfectly legal. It was negligence. I don't think he did a thorough job examining the fetus for signs of life once it was removed." What that juror was saying was that Edelin was convicted on the bare possibility that a legal victim of manslaughter--a living human being--existed after what McGuire ruled was a legal abortion. The law requires a reasonable certainty...