Word: manslaughterer
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2. I specified at least four bases for our appeal besides, as the story puts it, "that the jury found Edelin guilty of charges that were not those in the original accusations." Dr. Edelin was charged with manslaughter, which, if alleged to be involuntary, requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt...
3. The original charge was that the manslaughter and death occurred at a point when the fetus was still within the mother's body rather than, as the story puts it, when it "was still alive outside its mother's body." The change was to prove that Dr. Edelin acted...
Kenneth Ryan, professor of Obstetrics at the Medical School, said yesterday he doubts there will be future cases of manslaughter related to abortions.
Edelin was convicted in April 1974 in a nationally publicized manslaughter case after he performed an abortion using a technique called hysterotomy on Oct. 3, 1973, while he was chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology at the Boston City Hospital.
McGuire said at the first trial that the victim of manslaughter had to be "alive outside the body of his or her mother." His statement suggested that if the jury believed the testimony of Giminez-Jimeno, it would have to acquit Edelin.