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...VOCAL OPPOSITION Two groups will have prime real estate on the parade route. One, antiwar A.N.S.W.E.R., has a permit for bleachers on Pennsylvania Avenue. Turn Your Back on Bush will scatter throughout the crowd and face away from the motorcade in unison, but their picket signs have to stay at home: poles and puppets are banned...
...also Exhibit A in the debate over whether there should be guidelines to govern the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Not only are there no such guidelines for ART clinics in the U.S., according to a study from the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, there is no agreement about how prospective parents should be screened. It's a far cry, says Penn's Art Caplan, director of the center and co-author of the study, from what we accept in assessing the fitness of adoptive parents. ART candidates aren't evaluated...
Other challenges to the Solomon Amendment, including lawsuits filed by students and professors at Yale and University of Pennsylvania, are slowly crawling through the district courts. A member of FAIR’s legal team, Sharon Frase of the firm Heller Ehrman, said the Supreme Court may wait for rulings in the other cases before acting on the Bush administration’s appeal...
...Under Pennsylvania law, there are two types of insanity defense. The first mandates a two-pronged test: the accused must not have understood the nature and quality of his actions, or the wrongfulness of his actions...
...Tinari said he is considering employing a formulation called “diminished capacity.” According to Caroline Roberto, former president of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, if certain “cognitive dysfunctions”—bipolar disorder and depression with anxiety among them—prevented someone from forming the “specific intent to kill,” charges can be reduced from first to third degree murder...