Abstract
FOUR physicians involved in abortus research have recently been indicted in Boston under the provisions of a Violation of Sepulture law aimed at restricting grave robbing. 1,2 The law was passed in 1814 and prohibits the unauthorized removal and conveying away of human bodies or the remains thereof. Whatever the disposition of these cases, the fact that the National Institutes of Health are formulating regulations 3 and the Congress is preparing legislation (HR7724) 2 on the subject of human experimentation indicates that general commentary on the issue is appropriate. The research from which the indictments stem was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine of June 7, 1973, and was concerned with solving the problem posed by the need to prescribe antibiotics for pregnant women allergic to penicillin. 4 In order to perform the necessary studies, the investigators obtained the dead abortuses of a group of pregnant women who
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