Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defense has met the prosecution on its own grounds, and has argued convincingly that even if this were a birth, the fetus could not have survived anyway. For its own case, it has shown that this never was a birth, that it was an abortion protected...
...operation was a birth and not as abortion, in spite of either the patient's of the doctor's intention. A hysterotomy involves incision into the womb and detachment of the placenta from the uterine wall, and the prosecution says that when the placents was detached cutting off the fetus's dependence on the mother, that fetus was born. It alleges that Edelin, by allowing the fetus to die in the course of the operation, is guilty of manslaughter...
...treatment. It does this by defining as a birth an operation that was intended as an abortion and that was carried out under accepted medical procedure as an abortion. And it does this with a restrictive definition of birth that does not ever requires that the in involved fetus must have breathed...
Flanagan's case also depends on the allegation that if Edelin had allowed the fetus to survive the operation, it would have survived at least long enough to leave the hospital. This assumption depends on a proof that the fetus was viable, and if Flanagan gains a conviction, he will have defined viability in an extremely conservative way: at a gestational age as low as 20 weeks, Since the supreme Court has conceded to states the right to protect the "potentiality" for life by forbidding abortion after the point of viability regardless of the wishes of the mother, this case...
...said that the delay during which the fetus (was allegedly deprived of oxygen after being separated from the uterine wall, presented "little damage to the mother and no danger to the fetus...