Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likely to pass into law, at least in their present form. But on this issue, at least, the Protestant and Jewish acceptance of reform seems to coincide with popular opinion. In a survey taken by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, 71% favored legal abortion when the woman's health is seriously endangered, 56% when the pregnancy resulted from rape, and 55% when there is strong likelihood that the child would be born defective...
...evidence, continues Williams, must be "tested in the crucible of cross-examination." While the accused may not lie, "he is entitled to sit silent and force the proof of guilt." To Williams, guilt is a legal rather than a moral concept: "If you should one day find yourself accused of crime, you would expect your lawyer to raise every defense authorized by the law of the land. Even if you were guilty, you would expect your lawyer to make sure that the Government did not secure your conviction by unlawful means...
...Water Pistols. Like other big cities, New York has long debated what legal weapons can keep a girl safe from robbers, mashers and muggers. New York forbids all unlicensed concealed weapons, with the possible exception of hatpins. Thus, in 1964, citizens were appalled at the fate of Arlene Del Fava, a secretary who faced seven years' imprisonment because she used a switchblade knife to fight off a suspected rapist on the street at night. She escaped prosecution only because a sympathetic grand jury refused to indict her. Though tear-gas pens are legal in most states, the notable exceptions...
Obsessively seeking to discredit the findings of the Warren Commission, Lane reaches into a mixed bag of legal tricks. He demands conclusions from a witness. "Do you think it's rather curious that . . . you were not called by the commission?" He asks leading questions: "Who mutilated the picture after it was in the commission's hands...
...allowance was surely the most promising candidate. It would have cost $5 to $10 billion per year according to the scheme adopted but we had the money. To have enacted it would have been a first step in the necessary movement from the "civil-rights" phase--the phase involving legal equality for Negroes--into the phase of "equality as a fact and as a result...