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Cambridge students received permission to march from the Cambridge School Committee several weeks ago, providing they had parental consent to attend the demonstration. Rindge and Latin officials said they would take attendence twice to see who had left without permission. Boston Latin School students who rallied yesterday will be suspended from school for two days...
...main question, at least for politicians, is what role Government-federal and state-should play. It is the people who need protection the most, the poor and the young, who will be directly affected by what politicians decide about funding, parental consent or even an outright abortion ban. The more affluent and secure will always be able to get abortions when they want. And any ban will simply force many women who want to terminate their pregnancies to get illegal and unsafe operations, as happened before 1973. "A ban would only make abortion a humiliating and sordid experience," points...
Massachusetts. The state supreme court last month struck down the legislature's ban on abortion funding. But pro-lifers won a round by pushing through a law that requires unmarried minors to have either the consent of a parent or a Superior Court judge before getting an abortion-a restriction that goes one step beyond Utah's parental notification statute. A federal court of appeals upheld the consent law, but struck down provisions requiring pregnant woman to read, in advance of the operation, a detailed description of her unborn fetus...
...also wondered whether the patient consent forms proposed by the Utah doctors fully spell out the kind of life the implant recipient should expect. The heart runs on compressed air and is electrically powered. That means the patient will be permanently tethered to air hoses and plugged into an electrical outlet, a sedentary, chair-to-bed existence...
...Department of Mental Health is currently under several consent decrees with state courts by which it must make "enormous improvements in facilities," Gillespie said...