Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defense contends that the involved fetus never breathed, and thus could not have suffocated, and that it was not a human being...
Both defense and prosecution predict a trial of perhaps a month's duration that could depend on a determination of the age at which a fetus becomes a human being and on considerations of medical ethics and complicated surgical procedures...
...issue is the age of the fetus. Flanagan alleges that the fetus was between 24 and 28 weeks old and could have lived...
What Newman A. Flanagan, assistant district attorney in Suffolk County, had on Edelin was a photograph of the dead black fetus that he had seen in the morgue in the course of his investigations...
...gestational age of that fetus--and whether it was "viable" --are important issues in Edelin's trial this month...