Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testimony refuted that of Edelin's former colleague. Dr. Enrique Gimenez-Jimeno, who said last week under cross-examination by William P. Homans Jr. '41 he watched as Edelin started at a clock for three minutes with his hand in the mother's uterus, allowing a fetus...
Curtis said Edelin did not wait motionless with his hand inside the uterus as Gimenez-Jimeno testified, but instead had trouble removing the fetus and asked for another doctor's opinion...
...October 3, 1973, Edelin stood over the patient and, with his eyes fixed on the operating room clock, held his left hand motionless within her open womb for a period of between three and five minutes. And that only when he was satisfied it was dead, Edelin extracted the fetus. And that this fetus had for a brief period been alive, and had even breathed, and that this fetus was "viable" and could have survived on his own outside the woman who had requested the abortion. But, through the actions of Kenneth Edelin, this "male child" died of anoxia...
...with these agreements. The operation for which Edelin was indicted, both sides agree, was a hysterotomy, a procedure in which the abdomen and the uterus of a pregnant women are cut open for the purposes either of abortion or delivery. During this operation. Edelin separated the placenta of the fetus from the uterine wall of the patient, thus depriving the fetus of the nutrition that sustained its pre-natal life. The defense will even concede the presence of the body, for it agrees with the prosecution that his operation ultimately yielded a male fetus with no signs either...
...prosecution alleges that the involved fetus was between 24 and 28 weeks old. The defense claims that it was between 20 and 22 weeks...