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On the other hand, Flanagan introduced testimony that the fetus breathed, and therefore lived outside the womb--one enthusiastic witness said that microscopic examination of the fetus's lungs showed that it had "gasped for breath." The defense argued that no prosecution witness firmly established that the fetus had ever...
The fetus Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin aborted could not have lived because its lungs were not well enough developed to breathe, an obstetrician testified yesterday at Edelin's manslaughter trial in Boston.
Under examination by Flanagan, Ward testified that in a stillborn fetus air cells in the lung are uniformly expanded with fluid secreted by the lungs.
Ward resisted Homans's efforts to establish that the presence of fluid in the lungs was due to inhalation of amniotic fluid.
However, Ward acknowledged under cross-examination that he could not be sure that the fluid in the lungs was secreted by the lungs, as he indicated initially.