Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin, a Boston City Hospital obstetrician charged with manslaughter in the death of a human fetus, will probably open this afternoon in Boston with the beginning of jury selection...
...right-wing Deputy played a tape recording that sounded like a galloping horse and then cried to the silent Chamber: "You are listening to the heartbeat of a fetus of eight weeks and two days...
...done to a growing child's brain by their absence. Brain cells require protein, and they need it from the very moment that life begins. At least 80% of all human brain growth occurs between conception and the age of two. This growth cannot take place in the fetus if the mother is malnourished, and it cannot be accomplished in the infant if he is starving. Nor will it happen later. In many cases, brain development that does not occur when it is supposed to does not take place at all. Thus hunger is condemning countless thousands of infants...
...hearings on the motions has prosecutor Newman A. Flanagan displayed the warranted dedication to the law. His charge against Edelin is capricious and every statement he makes to clarify it makes the issue more confused. It is unclear what Flanagan says validates the manslaughter charge against Edelin--whether the fetus must have breathed, whether it must have been removed alive from the womb, whether it must have been over 24 weeks old, or whether it must have shown only a potential for life before it "died." The prosecutor has blithely left all these questions for Edelin to contemplate...
...motions to dismiss, the defense took upon itself the burden of proof in attempting to show the judge that the fetus Edelin is accused of killing never lived. Precisely because prosecutor Flanagan had never attempted to rebut the evidence, the defense argued, the case should not go to court. The prosecutor failed to produce any reasoned refutation, but McGuire says Edelin must stand trial...