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...protect viewers' privacy, the report advises that "educated consent" be required of subscribers. The viewing habits of customers, as well as the opinions they offer in polls, present a "potential for abuse...
...early September, a U.S. District Court supported the constitutionality of a new state law that requires women who seek abortions to sign consent forms at least 24 hours in advance. Contending that the purpose of the form was to castigate women and frighten them away from abortion, pro-abortion advocates recently succeeded in delaying the effective date of the law, pending an early October appeal...
...that the form--which outlines abortion procedures, risks and alternatives and uses the phrase "human-like" to describe an eight-week-old fetus--is educational and helpful to women who have questions about abortion. They also support the second part of the law, which requires minors to obtain the consent of both parents or a judge before undergoing an abortion. The purpose of the legislation, as Federal District Judge A. David Mazzone worded it, is to insure that a pregnant woman has "a full appreciation of the consequences and significance of her decision...
...Massachusetts law requiring "informed consent" before abortion, now under consideration by the U.S. Court of Appeals, is a silly law and will probably, if it goes into effect, be a destructive one. But what do you expect from any group that calls itself a state legislature? Ask them to tie their shoes--they will muck...
Decouto said some minorities receive inadequate medical care at Cambridge Hospital because they cannot understand the hospital staff. Such problems make it hard for the hospital to get a patient's informed consent before providing certain treatments...