Word: consenting
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...time, nonviolent offenders, like exhibitionists. Another issue: the Czech penal system effectively forces many prisoners into accepting the procedure out of fear they will be jailed for life if they do not, according to the council. "Given the context in which the intervention is offered, it is questionable whether consent to the option of surgical castration will always be truly free and informed," it said. Investigators found five cases of it being performed on legally incapacitated offenders who were not capable of making an informed decision. They found only two convicts who had spontaneously volunteered for castration...
Google mistakenly blamed a little known Harvard organization this weekend for causing an error that briefly caused its search engine to warn users that nearly all Web sites contained potentially harmful malware, or software that could infect or damage a user’s computer without consent...
...Another former ally, Randy Leonard, one of Portland's four city commissioners, was also dismayed, not least because Adams' story kept changing. His original version, a mentoring relationship, became a romantic liaison that the mayor insisted didn't become sexual until after Breedlove turned 18, the age of legal consent in Oregon. But in an interview published on Jan. 25 in the Oregonian, Breedlove suggested that he shared a passionate kiss with Adams in a city-hall bathroom while he was still underage. Says Leonard: "The part that bothers me is that I defended Sam back in 2007 more...
...cease-fire without Hamas and Israel's mutual consent may be the most temporary of Band-Aids. Inevitably, Hamas claimed that despite the devastation its fight with Israel has wreaked on Gaza, the best the Israelis could do was to slow - but not stop - the barrage of rockets arcing out of Gaza. Hamas' Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh claimed a "popular victory" over Israel. Up until the last minute before Israel declared its cease-fire, Hamas was firing rockets. Five hit the ports of Ashkelon and Ashdod as well as the inland towns of Beersheba and Sderot. And unless Hamas...
...federal Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) did not approve. After Pronovost was profiled in the New Yorker by Gawande in 2007, OHRP shut down data collection for the checklist study, claiming that it amounted to research being done without patients' informed consent. But the ensuing media attention spurred Congress to intervene, and Pronovost's program was allowed to continue and expand...