Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pittsburgh, Pa., pathologist testified yesterday in Boston that the fetus Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin is accused of killing breathed before it died, and Edelin's defense quickly sought to discredit the witness...
...prosecution alleges that in the course of the hysterotomy-type abortion, Edelin stood over the exposed womb of the 17-year-old patient with his hand in the uterus for a period of from three to five minutes, allowing the fetus to "suffocate...
Those three to five minutes may become a turning-point in the trial, cross-examination indicated earlier this week. Homans seemed prepared to argue that Edelin took three to five minutes to perform what is usually a shorter operation, not because he was allowing a fetus to breathe and then suffocate, but because the amniotic sac which envelops the fetus had burst, drawing out the operation...
...prosecution alleges that the fetus was between 24 and 28 weeks old, and that the type of abortion Edelin was performing--by incision through the abdomen--should have resulted in the delivery of a baby...
...case has drawn national attention because it is likely to set precedents ih laws concerning abortion. The central issues are just when a fetus becomes a human being, and whether a doctor should be allowed to exercise his own judgement freely in considering whether an abortion should be performed. Testimony in the trial might also focus on the right of a pregnant woman to decide the fate of the fetus inside...