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...since he was lamed in an auto accident four years ago, was away from home, but his wife Minnie recalls that the nurses told her the girls would have to go to the hospital for more shots. They said she must sign a paper, so she marked a surgical consent form with an X. The girls were taken to the Professional Center Hospital, kept overnight, and then sterilized next day by tubal ligation...
...family planning center has insisted that the operation was properly explained to Mrs. Relf, but she denies this. Had she then given a valid, informed consent, and did she have the legal right to do so? Or, more broadly, what right does the Government have to perform such an operation...
...funds for voluntary sterilization was quietly dropped in 1971-the OEO financed some 16,000 of them last year-but no rules were ever promulgated. A set of guidelines was drafted and printed, barring sterilization of anyone who did not have "the legal capacity to himself consent to the procedure," but after an obscure controversy within the Administration, the guidelines were sent to a warehouse. Thus the use of federal funds for sterilization was left in a kind of legal vacuum...
Last week, in a decision with broad implications for medical research, a three-judge state court ruled unanimously that "psychosurgery is clearly experimental and poses substantial danger to research subjects." It said that no one confined against his will can give "truly informed" consent to such an operation because the "inherently coercive atmosphere" of confinement does not permit genuine freedom of choice...
...halting the Cambodia bombing by Aug. 15 (see page 14). He prepared to celebrate the nation's 197th Independence Day, a Fourth of July dimmed by deeply troubling questions (in the words of the Declaration) about the "just powers" of the present Government and by increasing doubts about the "consent of the governed." Though not present in the packed hearing room, Nixon was personally and directly confronted by the crouched figure of his youthful accuser, until lately his faithful counsel...