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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prosecution alleges that in the course of the hysterotomy-type abortion, Edelin stood over the exposed womb of the 17-year-old patient with his hand in the uterus for a period of from three to five minutes, allowing the fetus to "suffocate...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Edelin's Defense Begins to Build its Case | 1/17/1975 | See Source »

...charge against Edelin is capricious and every statement he makes to clarify it makes the issue more confused. It is unclear what Flanagan says validates the manslaughter charge against Edelin--whether the fetus must have breathed, whether it must have been removed alive from the womb, whether it must have been over 24 weeks old, or whether it must have shown only a potential for life before it "died." The prosecutor has blithely left all these questions for Edelin to contemplate in the dock. The doctor has not been sufficiently clearly informed of the charge against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Edelin Case | 11/5/1974 | See Source »

...hysterotomy is a method of abortion similar in technique to Caesarean section. In the hysterotomy, however, the fetus is separated from the placenta while in the womb and soon dies deprived of oxygen. Flanagan had defined life in his prosecution as the state when the fetus breathes and maintains a heartbeat independent of the mother. Late in the hearing, though, he suggested that Edelin could be convicted for manslaughter even if the alleged victim had only a "potential" for life...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Boston Judge Hears Arguments On 'Life' of an Aborted Fetus | 10/23/1974 | See Source »

RIFT has chosen the Persephone myth as a symbol of the change from the matriarchy to the patriarchy that occurred in western prehistory. The natural bond between mother and daughter--between female and female--is forcibly broken. Woman, who possesses the womb and is therefore the source of life, is subjugated to man, whose power and symbol is death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feminist Theater: Politics and Art | 10/8/1974 | See Source »

...adoption this summer of a fetal-research bill by the Massachusetts legislature. This bill requires "parental consent" before a doctor may experiment on a fetus and prohibits both the culture of live fetal tissue after abortion and experimentation on a fetus while it is still in the womb...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Fetal Researchers Go Under the Law | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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