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...always pursued them simultaneously. "When I was little I always wanted to be a vet," she says, and that desire, at some point, changed into a desire to be a doctor. She thinks now that she'd like to be a general practitioner or a gynecologist and obstetrician...
...Court of the U.S. shrank with becoming modesty from this speculation, the jury of laymen that convicted Dr. Kenneth Edelin in a Boston criminal court (TIME, Feb. 24) showed no such restraint. Its verdict-guilty of manslaughter-was reached after the jury decided that a fetus aborted by the obstetrician more than a year earlier had been, in fact, a living baby. Last week Judge James P. McGuire, who in his charge to the jury had declared that "a fetus is not a person and therefore not a subject for an indictment for manslaughter," took some of the edge...
...predictable reaction to the Edelin verdict came from the organized, active and highly articulate anti-abortion forces. Dr. William Lynch, a Boston obstetrician who helped organize the anti-abortion National Commission for Human Life, expressed sympathy for Dr. Edelin but was pleased with the verdict. He was critical of the reaction of other doctors because "the only thing that will deter them from performing abortions is not the threat to human life, but the threat of a malpractice suit...
...lives. Last week he was convicted of taking one. After seven hours of deliberation, a superior court jury of nine men and three women in Boston found him guilty of manslaughter in the death of a fetus that he had aborted. As a result of the verdict, the popular obstetrician faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years. If the decision is upheld on appeal and if it is accepted as valid precedent by other courts, many women around the country will be unable to obtain late-term abortions...
...inseparability of the prosecution's argument from the gut issue of abortion was highlighted by the testimony of William Mecklenburg a Minneapolis obstetrician associated with the right-to-life movement. Mecklenburg attacked Edelin for what he called bad medical practice in the hysterotomy operation because the procedure is "extremely dangerous" to the unborn child. But abortion is meant to be dangerous-to-unborn children. Mecklenburg's testimony underscored something that became clearer and clearer as the trial went on: that the Commonwealth's case rested on a moral presumption that was not part of the law, the presumption that abortion...