Word: consents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minimum wage, promoting peace in Ireland and elsewhere. But this year, when his moral authority was systematically stripped, we could not help being aware of the governing he didn't do despite spectacular opportunities. He could dispatch planes to Iraq but not troops, nothing requiring broad debate and consent. He could not trade pet projects with Republicans in Congress--I'll give you school vouchers if you give me the patients' bill of rights--because he could not afford to annoy any Democrats. And so, in the end, there was no tobacco deal...
...more likely to choose abortion over adoption. While most adoption groups support some kind of compromise plan, the National Council for Adoption, a buttoned-up Washington coalition of agencies that arrange confidential adoptions, would require that extraordinary measures be taken by the state to find, counsel and get consent from birth parents before adoptees could even learn their names--to say nothing of meeting them. At the other extreme is the Internet-based Bastard Nation, which wants no exception whatsoever to open records and arouses activists' ire on its irreverent bastards.org website ("Rush for Our Records!" the site proclaims...
...this case, they didn't touch her person.That's not necessarily the end-all. If theyphysically moved her without her consent, thatsure could constitute a battery," said Paul F.Wood, a Boston lawyer who specializes indiscrimination cases...
Second: no one today would defend the administration of radioactive material to other human beings, sick or healthy, without their knowledge and consent. But the work in question was done 40 years ago--in another era in which the ethics of medical experimentation were perceived rather differently...
There was also, I regret to say, a widespread willingness to exploit seriously ill patients, feeble-minded children and all manner of unfortunates without their consent for purposes the investigators seemed worthy--even if you deduct for the inevitable impulse toward self-aggrandizement that accompanies most creative work. No one, in fact, had yet heard of the idea of informed consent and as far as I can tell everyone thought he was doing something of value in these studies...