Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNTIL 18 months ago an American woman in virtually all the states could get a legal abortion only to save her life, and only after surmounting forbidding legal obstacles. Since then, five states have liberalized their punitive 19th century abortion laws. They now permit therapeutic abortions to be performed if the physical or mental health of the mother is in danger or if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Four of these five states?Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia and Maryland?also authorize abortion if the child is likely to be born defective, as is commonly the case...
Armed with the new legal interpretation, HUC urged the committee to recommend that the faculty...
Suggestions to eliminate parietals have been made many times before. The university agreed last year to extend visiting hours but not do away with them. The latest efforts, however, are believed to carry more weight because the changes were suggested by a House Master and because of the new legal interpretation...
...legal interpretation came from the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow. It was retained by HUC for what President Stephen H. Kaplan called "a substantial...
John Hanify '71, who read the prepared HUC recommendation, said after the meeting that it was the first time "we got down to the substantive issue of parietals. The talk is no longer about legal restrictions but about relevant questions such as, would the students accept the responsibility involved...