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Parents may disagree, but many teen-agers and a growing number of physicians concur with that statement by Leah Newman, 16, a member of a New York City high school group advocating freedom of sex information. Civil liberties groups are also leaning toward the concept that teen-agers should be able to get medical services where sex is concerned, without involving their parents. In a U.S. district court, two pregnant 16-year-old Boston girls recently won a delay in enforcement of a state law that requires them to obtain parental permission for abortions. But despite some progress, the medical...
...Friends' Service Committee points out that "the use of children as industrial laborers was outlawed under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, yet in 1970 one fourth of the farm wage workers in the United States are under 16 years old." The AFSC and the Department of Labor concur in estimating that 800,000 children work in agricultural labor. The Department of Labor found that nine out of ten migrant children fail to keep up with school work, and repeat grades. Dr. Robert Coles, of the Harvard School of Public Health, has summarized the consequences of child farm labor...
...could concur in both views but for the fact that some of these "underlings" are now serving sentences for lesser offenses than those from which the presumably more important defendants may be excused...
FREEDMAN: I would concur in that, but that standard, as it has been set down in the authorities that I have seen, is that he is not entitled to make arguments that are wholly frivolous. Arguments that are beyond fair argument, good faith argumentation--I think on the facts of this case it would be impossible to make a finding that he has acted other than in good faith in presenting arguments that support his position...
...position paper on homosexuality, supports their view. The new definition, he says, will remove "one of the justifications for the denial of civil rights to individuals whose only crime is that their sexual orientation is to members of the same sex." Many of Spitzer's colleagues concur. "It is unfair to label homosexuality in and of itself a mental illness," says Dr. Judd Marmor, a Los Angeles psychoanalyst and candidate for the American Psychiatric Association presidency. "That is a moral judgment...