Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prosecutor's contention that the fetus had breathed and maintained a heart beat independent of its mother was not backed up by any medical authority, Homans said...
...prosecution claims that Edelin murdered a fetus that was at least 24 weeks old, in the process of an abortion last year...
Homans argued ten days ago that the case should be dismissed because the prosecution had not shown that the fetus Edelin was accused of killing ever lived...
...defense motion included an affidavit from Dr. Kurt Benirschke, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, attesting that lung cells taken in an autopsy of the fetus show no evidence of respiration...
...hysterotomy is a method of abortion similar in technique to Caesarean section. In the hysterotomy, however, the fetus is separated from the placenta while in the womb and soon dies deprived of oxygen. Flanagan had defined life in his prosecution as the state when the fetus breathes and maintains a heartbeat independent of the mother. Late in the hearing, though, he suggested that Edelin could be convicted for manslaughter even if the alleged victim had only a "potential" for life...