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...defense argues that his particular operation was an abortion undertaken at the request of the patient, and with the understanding on Edelin's part that it would result in abortion of the fetus. Therefore, the defense cites the January 1973 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade to demonstrate that all abortions--even up to the 40th. or last week of pregnancy--were legal at the time of the operation, especially because Massachusetts had not exercised the option as outlined by that ruling of limiting the legality of abortion on a viable fetus...
...prosecution responds that Roe V. Wade is irrelevant here because the operation was not an abortion by definition, in spite of the intention of either the patient or Edelin. Instead, Flanagan contends, this hysterotomy operation resulted in the delivery of a live male child that was subsequently killed. He says that legal "birth" occurred in the course of that operation when Edelin separated the placenta of the fetus from the uterine wall; that after that point, the fetus was detached from the mother and living under its own systems for a period of time. In Flanagan's definition of birth...
Homans said that the indictment was unconstitutional, and that it conflicted with the Roe v. Wade decision of the Supreme Court in January...
Along this line, Chayet says, the defense may cite the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision of Roe v. Wade in January 1973 and also a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court finding of July 1974 in Doe v. Doe. The Supreme Court's "abortion decision" asserted that a woman has the right of privacy to terminate a pregnancy with the approval of a physician. The majority opinion in the 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...
Almost all of the 579 animals that live on the Durrell preserve are in danger of extinction and are treated accordingly. A recently arrived spider monkey that refused to eat ("Apes are the hypochondriacs of the animal world") was finally coaxed into feasting on smoked cod roe. A sulking capybara, the world's largest rodent, was found to be partial to spaghetti. "An animal likes variety just as we do," says Durrell, a skilled cook. "If you give it a tomato day after day, it goes mad. It may want a bloody watermelon for a change...