Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edelin is charged in Suffolk County with killing a fetus which the prosecution says was 24 weeks in gestational age and could have lived if Edelin had allowed it to survive the October 1973 operation...
...fetus Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin aborted could not have lived because its lungs were not well enough developed to breathe, an obstetrician testified yesterday at Edelin's manslaughter trial in Boston...
Allen Barnes, former chairman of the Johns Hopkins University department of obstetrics, said a three-minute wait during which Edelin is accused of holding the fetus motionless within the uterus was "perfectly all right...
...hulking man with a sonorous voice and a formidable court presence, Homans builds his defense with a stern precision based on diligent research and a certain irascible doggedness. One prosecution witness who spent five minutes testifying that the fetus breathed before it died found he had to spend another full day in court, being dragged across the forensic coals by the irreconcilable Homans. Dr. Enrique Gimenez-Jimeno, the state's top witness, who said he remembered particulars the hysterotomy operation, was forced to acknowledge under Homans's severe questioning that he could not recall key aspects of the operating room...
...coherent answers. Alternately furrowing his brow, gazing down at the linoleum floor, or staring sidelong out through a window, Edelin usually paused before answering questions and displayed a calm bemusement when his attorney, the court typist, or the judge stumbled on his scientific terms. He usually called the fetus and placenta "the products of conception" in describing abortion technique, and these explanations lacked the graphic polemicism that marked some prosecution testimony on the same subjects. Edelin employed his hands in controlled and graceful explication of his testimony--"sweeping" the placenta from the uterine wall in the air with the first...