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Ever since the Supreme Court struck down restrictive state abortion laws in 1973, antiabortionists have been seeking ways to attack the decision. Last June they found an opportunity. Three Boston City Hospital researchers - Drs. Agneta Philipson, L.D. Sabath and David Charles - described in the New England Journal of Medicine their experiments to determine how effectively two antibiotics designed to treat congenital syphilis passed through the placenta from mother to fetus. To get their results, they had administered the drugs to women who had come to the hospital for abortions and then measured the levels of the medicines in the aborted...
...indictments shocked doctors. "I just can't believe that I've been arrested, fingerprinted and mug shot for trying to find a way to prevent congenital syphilis," says Dr. Sabath. Hospital personnel were equally upset. Staff protests forced B.C.H. trustees to reverse their decision to suspend Edelin...
...Sabath said last night that such research as he performed would now depend to a greater extent on experimental animals...
...Sabath said he was encouraged by the fact that the bill's original clause barring research on fetuses from induced abortions was dropped...
...Sabath said the bill is "destructive to the interests of humanity and the potential gains of science...