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Parental involvement requirements are not only ineffective; they are also dangerous. Teenagers unable to confer with their parents must secure a court waiver of parental consent, called a “judicial bypass.” This process almost invariably requires two to four weeks to complete. After the first trimester—when a delay of only a few days can vastly ”increase the risks involved in the procedure,” according to the American Medical Association—a month-long postponement is hardly conscionable...
...however, receive any public funding. To suggest that state funding should be given to an agency that discriminates against homosexuals in the name of religious freedom would be to sanction the very discriminatory policy that the state law seeks to eradicate. Rather, we feel that Massachusetts should only confer the license for adoption services to the Church, but divorce public money from the Charities’ activities. While our consideration of this licensing issue has focused around the practical empirical impact on children, Governor Romney, like Archbishop O’Malley, has framed this issue around freedom of religion. Within...
...members discussed potential reasons for the increase in the number of student groups in recent years. One possible explanation raised at the meeting was that faculty members have been willing to sign up as advisers for a number of student groups with the assurance that doing so would not confer any responsibilities. Ryan A. Petersen ’08, the chair of the UC’s Student Activities Committee (SAC) and a CCL member, said after the meeting that he did not see the rising number of student groups as a problem. “Students should be able...
...meeting at the White House that he had arranged for Poncho and says it should be a priceless asset in his client's upcoming re-election campaign as chief of Louisiana's Coushatta Indians. "By all means mention [in the tribal newsletter] that the Chief is being asked to confer with the President and is coming to Washington for this purpose in May," Abramoff writes. "We'll definitely have a photo from the opportunity, which he can use." The lawyer had asked about attire, and Abramoff advises, "As to dress, probably suit and tie would work best...
This court has recognized generally that privately employed security guards engage in functions that are different from those performed by ordinary police officers. Cf. Commonwealth v. Leone, 386 Mass. 329, 335 (1982). "General Laws c. 22C, § 63, does not confer upon campus security staff all the powers of a State police officer appointed pursuant to c. 22C, § 10." Commonwealth v. Mullen, 40 Mass.App.Ct. 404, 407 (1996). Contrast G.L. c. 41, § 99; Commonwealth v. Callahan, 428 Mass. 335, 337 (1998) (G.L. c. 41, § 99, is broad statute permitting Massachusetts cities and towns to requisition special police officers...