Word: manslaughterer
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Dr. Leon D. Sabath '50 was indicted one year ago today on charges stemming from fetal research he performed at Boston City Hospital, and while he still awaits trial, he said yesterday that the manslaughter conviction of Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin has convinced him that one cannot predict what will...
The same Boston grand jury turned over the Edelin manslaughter indictment on April 11, and although Edelin was convicted in February--for the death of a fetus following a legal abortion--the experimenters' case is only now coming to the county's superior criminal court.
A country superior court jury declared Edelin guilty of manslaughter on February 15 for the death of a fetus in a legal abortion he performed in 1973.
Edelin said he and attorneys William P. Homans Jr. '41 and Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law, are preparing a brief to appeal the manslaughter conviction for submission to the state's Supreme Judicial Court in July.
The world's best fetologists cannot agree among themselves when viability begins. Pathologists with the evidence in their hands cannot agree on the exact gestational age of this particular fetus. But the jury in the Edelin trial can agree. So certain are they, that they convicted a man of...