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SATURDAY'S VERDICT in the trial of Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin will never stand as a conviction of the Boston City Hospital obstetrician, but as a condemnation of a legal process that brought this case into a courtroom and that allowed a jury to consider it. The shocking forcefulness of the jurors in convicting Edelin and the racist and prejudiced nature of their judgment only adds a final virulent touch to a prosecution that was from the beginning ugly...
...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--and not just those by hysterotomy. Assistant District Attorney and Prosecutor Newman A. Flanagan has to argue his case on this limited terrain because he knows that an abortion in October 1973 was legal, and that if he tried Edelin for abortion, the doctor could go free...
...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...
...excitement that has surrounded the trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin, a Harvard-related case that keyed prosecutors to the Boston City Hospital obstetrician has been ignored...
...trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin, a Boston City Hospital obstetrician charged with manslaughter in the death of a human fetus, will probably open this afternoon in Boston with the beginning of jury selection...