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...means saving the life of their child. Critics argue that there is no way parents can refuse such a request when under the pressure of having a dying child. For that reason, university officials required a two-week delay between the time Teresa and her husband John signed the consent forms and the date of the transplant, so that the family could reconsider the decision. "It was purely voluntary," says Dr. Peter Whitington, a pediatric hepatologist on the transplant team. "I think this mother, even if she had greater complications, would believe she did the right thing. I believe this...
...liberal friends (being a liberal myself) tell me that this is a free speech issue, and that COCA has a right to express their views to me. I disagree that free speech is involved at all. My conception of the constitutional freedom of speech is that, as far as consent is concerned, anything goes. I think that the public political discourse must be completely free of censorship and limitation. But my draft notice was not in the public discourse; it was a private communication, addressed to me and placed in my locked mailbox. For me, this makes the draft notice...
Foley, Hoag and Eliot works with a variety of clients. It helps Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups challenge state abortion consent laws. It also handles civil rights cases, in which the clients need not be indigent...
...victories in Pennsylvania and Michigan. The Pennsylvania house of representatives voted 143 to 58 to prohibit most abortions after 24 weeks, require that women be informed of the medical risks of abortion and impose a 24-hr. waiting period. Michigan's senate approved a bill that would require parental consent to abortions for girls 17 years old or younger...
...Forcible rape" is a scary term. It says that rape doesn't inevtibly mean forcible; it says that rape is something that just happens, with or without force, or maybe with or without consent, to be more Orwellian about it. "Forcible rape" implies that rape is nobody's fault, except maybe that of the raped woman...