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...reason for this omission may have been the internal contradiction that testimony introduced into Flanagan's case. Giminez-Jimeno depicted Edelin as ruthless and cold-blooded, saying that be ripped the placenta from the uterine wall "with force" and stood, motionless, with his and in the opened uterus for three minutes. "He was locking at the clock. Nothing else," he said. Giminez-Jimeno, and other doctors who testified for both the prosecution and the defense, agreed that such an action would have certainly caused the death of the fetus by anoxia...
...abortion" is false. If an abortion had been committed, and if the jury had found it as such then under present law he would have been acquitted. Instead, the jury found that there was a chance that the fetus was viable that it was alive outside of the uterus. It further determined that through "negligence" Edelin had allowed the baby to die. That is the crime of manslaughter, and that was the reason for the verdict that was returned...
Allen Barnes, former chairman of the Johns Hopkins University department of obstetrics, said a three-minute wait during which Edelin is accused of holding the fetus motionless within the uterus was "perfectly all right...
Curtis said Edelin did not wait motionless with his hand inside the uterus as Gimenez-Jimeno testified, but instead had trouble removing the fetus and asked for another doctor's opinion...
...examine the complexities of the case, it is easiest to begin with these agreements. The operation for which Edelin was indicted, both sides agree, was a hysterotomy, a procedure in which the abdomen and the uterus of a pregnant women are cut open for the purposes either of abortion or delivery. During this operation. Edelin separated the placenta of the fetus from the uterine wall of the patient, thus depriving the fetus of the nutrition that sustained its pre-natal life. The defense will even concede the presence of the body, for it agrees with the prosecution that his operation...