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However, the use of the "undue burden" principle in the most recent case is troubling. Such a vague argument, that women should not face "undue burdens" in their desire to obtain abortions, could be used to justify any cases of abortion. The court has yet to explain in full their interpretation of "undue burden...
...Stanford feels it should not treat differently its gay and lesbian employees who cannot obtain a legal sanction of their enduring partnership, though their commitment to the partnership is analogous to that involved in contemporary marriage relationships," Barbara Butterfield, Stanford's vice president for faculty and staff services, said in a statement...
However, students at other schools can obtain those same services from specialists. Instead of having specialists from affiliated teaching hospitals come to the university, as done at Yale and Harvard, many colleges send students to nearby hospitals--where they may be seen sooner than the students waiting for care on campus...
...came under new scrutiny in March, when the Supreme Court allowed a 14-year-old rape victim to have her pregnancy medically terminated in Britain. In a three-part referendum, voters overwhelmingly decided to legalize that previously unlawful option by permitting women to travel abroad for abortions and obtain information about how to do so. But a constitutional amendment allowing abortions to be performed in Ireland in cases where a mother's life is threatened was roundly defeated because both pro-choice and antiabortion forces decided to oppose...
...suspects were not arrested because Harvard police were able to obtain positive identification of all four students, Johnson said. The matter was, however, forwarded to the Yale College dean's office...