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Last month Middlesex Superior Court Judge Robert J. Hallisey upheld Cambridge's nerve gas testing ban, calling the regulation reasonable and enforceable. In the addendum to his decision, Hallisey encouraged an appeals court to overturn his verdict on the basis of the city's procedures in setting up the regulations...
Pope John Paul II's position on abortion is firm and uncompromising: it is morally wrong and equivalent to infanticide. That papal teaching, along with its corollary that Roman Catholics should actively seek to overturn legislation that allows the taking of prenatal life, has put the Vatican in a confrontation with 24 American nuns that could lead to their expulsion from religious life. The nuns are among 97 Catholics, including three men who belong to religious orders, who signed "A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and + Abortion," an advertisement published in the New York Times last October...
...Life," but a vast reworking of the way technological change brings itself to bear on society. The point is not to abandon the condemn/condone way of dealing with science ethics issues, but to see its inadequacy, to recognize that the rapidly changing and overwhelming new powers of science radically overturn the way we make ethical choices and public policies. The Task Force on Organ Transplants is a step in this direction...
That Reagan will fill vacancies with conservatives is not in doubt, out the question remains what type of conservative. He may opt for practitioners of judicial restraint who, though disapproving of many previous liberal rulings, are loathe to overturn precedent and will net instead to prevent the extension of existing laws into new areas. The tow names most often mentioned as possible candidates, U.S. court of Appeals Judges Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia, are both said to be member of the school advocating judicial restraint...
...most dramatic thing the Court do is overturn Roc vs. Wade," says Assistant Professor William Kristol '73 of the Kennedy School. But, Kristol cautions, all this would do is return the authority over abortion to the states, a measure which, though making the operation more difficult to obtain, would not outlaw it altogether...