Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William P. Homans Jr. '41, attorney for defendant Dr. Kenneth Edelin of Boston City Hospital, argued that the affidavit clearly demonstrated that the aborted fetus never breathed...
Homans said that there was no need for a trial on the issue, because the prosecution did not dispute this "ultimate fact." He explained that the prosecution did not dispute it because it had offered no medical evidence in rebuttal and because its declarative statement that the fetus had breathed did not amount to a valid dispute...
...point, prosecutor Flanagan apologized to the judge for not submitting a more evidentiary counter-affadavit, but during the hearing he did not note any medical evidence to support his claim that the fetus had breathed...
...latter case held that this right obtains even where a husband objects. "In both cases a great deal of authority is given to the mother," Chayet added. A national commission is now considering resolutions that would limit the authority a woman has to permit research on her fetus, but its findings would ostensibly have no effect on the case of the four Boston doctors...
...Supreme Court, in that 1973 decision, implied that this transition occurs at gestational age 24 to 28 weeks, as this is the period when a fetus grows "viable"--when it can live away from its mother. Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29 thus ruled that abortions should be allowed through the 24th week of pregnancy, at which point the state's "legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life" would overcome the right of the mother as an individual...