Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Homans asked for a more specific definition of "chance for survival" and Kennedy testified that if there was a one in 500 chance that the fetus could have survived, it was viable...
Measurements of the length and weight of the fetus in the Edelin case were made in an autopsy four months after the operation, but Ward questioned the accuracy of the weight measurement...
...said that the preservation of the fetus in Formalin, a liquid solution of formaldehyde, dehydrated the fetus so that it weighed less at the autopsy than it did at the time of the operation...
Homans cited a list of scientific papers on the effect of preservation in Formalin on tissue weight and, after establishing that Ward was familiar with none of them, suggested that the doctor was not qualified to speculate on the age of the fetus...
...defense attorney implied that Ward had employed standards of measurement in interpreting figures from the autopsy that would yield a contrived and exaggerated estimate of the age of the fetus...