From TIADaily.com by Robert Tracinski:

John Edwards's First Career

In John Edwards's first career he was a courtroom empath for the unborn. He
used questionable fetal heart monitor data to take millions in liability
verdicts from obstetricians.

As a result of such claims, there now are two Americas. One is a new
civil-liability-entitlement class that waits for any
incident that could be trumped up into a 'winning lottery ticket.' The other is
the America of honest and productive men who shoulder a burden of unjust tort
claims that now total almost $200 billion a year.

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"In Trial Work, Edwards Left a Trademark," Adam Liptak and Michael Moss, New
York Times, January 31, 2004

"In 1985, a 31-year-old North Carolina lawyer named John Edwards stood before a
jury and channeled the words of an unborn baby girl.

Referring to an hour-by-hour record of a fetal heartbeat monitor, Mr. Edwards
told the jury: 'She said at 3, `I'm fine.' She said at 4, `I'm having a little
trouble, but I'm doing O.K.' Five, she said, `I'm having problems.' At 5:30,
she said, `I need out.''

But the obstetrician, he argued in an artful blend of science and passion,
failed to heed the call. By waiting 90 more minutes to perform a breech
delivery, rather than immediately performing a Caesarean section, Mr. Edwards
said, the doctor permanently damaged the girl's brain.

'She speaks to you through me,' the lawyer went on in his closing argument. 'And
I have to tell you right now - I didn't plan to talk about this - right now I
feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to
you.'

The jury came back with a $6.5 million verdict in the cerebral palsy case, and
Mr. Edwards established his reputation as the state's most feared plaintiff's
lawyer.

In the decade that followed, Mr. Edwards filed at least
20 similar lawsuits against doctors and hospitals in deliveries gone wrong,
winning verdicts and settlements of more than $60 million, typically keeping
about a third. As a politician he has spoken of these lawsuits with pride."

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