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Edelin Decision Sparks New Abortion Controversy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

James F. Holzer
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Two years and 25 days following United States Supreme Court's controversial decision on abortion, a Massachusetts Superior Court jury of nine men and three women handed down an historic decision of their own against a Boston physician accused of manslaughter in connection with an abortion he performed on a 17 year old girl.

And so on February 15, 1975, 36 year old Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin, Coordinator of Ambulatory Care in OB/GYN at Boston City Hospital, was found gullty as charged:

“ … Kenneth Edelin, on the third day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy Three did assault and beat a certain person, to wit, a male child described to said jurors as Baby Boy, and by such assault and beating, did kill the same person … ”

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Medicolegal News , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 1975 , pp. 3 - 7
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1975

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