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...response to one council member's charge thatthe council is not a courtroom, Dershowitz said,"I'm not here as a lawyer, I'm here as a humanbeing."Vote on Endorsement: Yes 35, No 40 Absent 10,Abstain...
...Abstain: 1 (1.7 percent...
Total: 57 (100 percent)Vote on Funding: Yes 47, No 26 Absent 11,Abstain...
...understand why a Senator might vote for him. A Senator can't abstain from voting," said Dershowitz, who advised senators on how to defeat Bork. "But a citizen can abstain, and I think abstention may the proper course of action when a bad president names a mediocre nominee to an already bad court...
...standard contract currently used in many such arrangements does not provide the surrogate mother with many rights, but puts a good number of restraints on her. She agrees to abstain from smoking, alcohol and drugs as well as sexual intercourse during the period around insemination. Most agreements forbid her to abort without consent of the father, though some require it if amniocentesis reveals fetal abnormalities. And while the mothers are screened, though not always with sufficient diligence, the contracting couples often are not. What are the ethical dilemmas of a surrogate mother who delivers her child into a home...