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...political and, according to Caplan, inconclusive. The hope was somehow to reconcile that natural gut reaction which sees the act, the victim, the murderer and calls a spade a spade with the more informed need to preserve conceptions of human will, avoid the connection between illness and evil, and abstain from seeking the hypocritical solution of committing the sick to prisons that offer no treatment or hospitals that are no better than prisons. Discussion centered on two legal reforms: allowing for a verdict of guilty but insane; and restricting the scope of the defense by limiting judgment to a defendant...
Instead, the council voted to ask its representatives on the student-faculty Committee on Housing to abstain from voting on the matter for the rest of the year, to enable more campus-wide debate before any changes in the lottery system are made
Even so, many physicians prefer to err on the side of caution. "No one knows the risk factors," says Dr. Jokichi Takamine, chairman of the American Medical Association's task force on alcoholism. He believes that pregnant women should abstain completely. Atlanta Obstetrician Donald Block, for one, is delighted with the idea of the warning signs. He says, "Now when I tell pregnant women not to drink, they are prepared...
...Harvard faculty certainly does not abstain from the use of alcohol. By reading the "Alcohol" letter, are we supposed to assume that the faculty does abstain, or is it that they are responsible adults, unlike ourselves, who have earned the right to consume this socially accepted drug? Robert Henderson...
...hunger, of course, is a national problem, particularly among Black children (one half of whom live in poverty). Dr. Graham contended publicly that Black infant mortality rates are high not because of hunger, but for "cultural" reasons, including a refusal by expecting parents to abstain from sex. Gynecologist Patricia Conrad of New York speedily refuted Graham's statement, pointing out that sex during pregnancy is safe up until the eighth month--provided the mother is not malnourished...