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Previous Volume 358:861-862 February 21, 2008 Number 8

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By Kenneth C. Edelin. 362 pp., illustrated. Boston, PondViewPress, 2007. $17.95. ISBN 978-0-9792060-0-9.

There were overtones of the Salem witch trials and the convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti when, in 1975, a jury found Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin guilty of manslaughter for having performed an abortion by hysterotomy on an unmarried 17-year-old girl. In 1973, when he performed the abortion, Edelin was the chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Boston City Hospital (now known as Boston Medical Center).

The resemblance of Edelin's trial to those other infamous trials is that belief systems, prejudices, emotions, and political winds played a large role. Racial tensions in Boston at the time of the trial added . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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