Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judge: "What is your profession?"
The trial brings into rare public focus the strange status of prostitution in Poland and other East European countries. Officially it does not exist. According to Communist dogma, the world's oldest profession is an evil peculiar to capitalism and has no appeal in a socialist state. In fact...
When the three-member court sits down in late May to thrash out the legal and medical complexities of psychosurgery, it will convene without Mr. L. But the medical profession itself will remain on trial in the somewhat eerie backdrop of a Detroit courtroom
On the other side of the issue are the doctors and scientists who say that the test is accurate enough and that the child's low IQ will make him or her a burden on the parents and on the society. Very often in actual cases the request for abortion...
However, there are certain legal and moral questions that are raised. One asks if a mother who is not willing to abort should be allowed or convined to undergo amniocentesis. If the procedure becomes very common, the discovery of a handicapped child could easily amount to an edict for abortion...