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...gallery was quiet as Edelin assumed an intense, slight hunch above the now-clear table and poised his long, thin hands 15 inches above the solid oak at the same level where, if this were operating room number two of the Boston City Hospital on October 3, 1973, the womb of a 17 year-old woman would have lain open and bleeding. Edelin twisted his head 140 degrees backwards and fixed his eyes on a spot where, if this really were operating room number two, two clocks maybe two broken clocks--would have been mounted on the wall...
...optimistic claim that "if you went to Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., you might have to worry about a job, but at Harvard you don't have to worry," many of our fears remain unstilled. We question what value our education will have when we leave Harvard's womb, and few of us can be certain of the answer. Some of us see, whatever other motives are involved, that lawyers and doctors are always in demand, and scurry off to professional schools; the rest of us wait and wonder...
Edelin said that he decided on October 2, 1973, to perform the hysterotomy operation after two unsuccessful attempts to abort the fetus by injection of saline solution into the womb...
...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...
...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...