Word: weavers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...verdict in the death of "Baby Girl Weaver...
Waddill, 42, had been asked in March 1977 to perform an abortion on Mary Weaver, a high school student who claimed to be about 22 weeks pregnant. He injected a salt solution into her uterus, expecting a dead fetus to be expelled some 36 hours later, and left the hospital. That night, Waddill was summoned back by a nurse who said a fetus approximately 31 weeks old had emerged and was showing signs of life. He told the nurse not to care for it and to await his arrival. The hospital's chief pediatrician, Dr. Ronald Cornelsen, said...
...simply using a common method of feeling its pulse. But his key defense was that the baby was never really alive outside the uterus and that no doctor could have saved it. After hearing 13 weeks of conflicting testimony, the jury had to decide whether "Baby Girl Weaver," as the fetus was known, was ever legally alive outside her mother's womb, and whether the actions (or inactions) of Dr. Waddill led to her death...
...shifted to a majority for acquittal, first 7 to 5, then 9 to 3. The following day, the eleventh day, Thomas announced that the jurors were hopelessly deadlocked, and Judge Turner declared a mistrial. This week Dr. Waddill, who is also being sued for $17 million by Mary Weaver, returns to court to learn whether he will be tried all over again. The jurors, however, are finished. The day after the mistrial was declared, Kathy Davis got married, with four of the other jurors in attendance at the ceremony in the backyard of her father's home...
...chose Economics because with Ec you can go into law or business or economics, which is a lot more than you can do with other concentrations," Jane Weaver '81 said yesterday...