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IN LATE September of 1973, a 17-year-old woman came to Boston City Hospital requesting an abortion, and within five days a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at the hospital performed the operation using a technique called hysterotomy. Sixteen months later--probably this Friday--a jury of that doctor...
The state's case against Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin appears to rest on the premise that the hysterotomy operation was a birth and not as abortion, in spite of either the patient's of the doctor's intention. A hysterotomy involves incision into the womb and detachment of the placenta...
Why is the prosecution straining medical and legal ethics in such a severe manager to get a manslaughter conviction on a small time Boston obstetrician? The answer is, simply, that as much insists that this operation was not an abortion, the prosecution is out to limit the practice of abortions...
Still Flanagan's vague description of the alleged manslaughter act is sufficiently linked with abortion-related issues that a conviction would inevitably intimidate those who perform abortion operations and could place severe legal restrictions on the practice. Such an extreme definition of birth could possibly lead to other, equally-contrived...
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.