Word: prohibition
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Antiabortion forces also took heart last week from victories in Pennsylvania and Michigan. The Pennsylvania house of representatives voted 143 to 58 to prohibit most abortions after 24 weeks, require that women be informed of the medical risks of abortion and impose a 24-hr. waiting period. Michigan's senate approved a bill that would require parental consent to abortions for girls 17 years old or younger...
JUSTICE Department regulations now prohibit "creative" uses of RICO by the federal government, but this restriction doesn't apply to private organizations. In Philadelphia, an abortion clinic sued protesters who picketed their clinic weekly for nine years. The case was complicated by the fact that the defendants broke in a couple of times and damaged the clinic's equipment. The $108,000 award to the clinic was essentially a death sentence for the defendants' group...
Among the legal considerations: Are lawyer-brokered independent adoptions allowed in the state where the couple resides? (Six states prohibit private adoption.) Which of the birth mother's expenses can be paid by the adoptive parents? Hospitalization? Maternity clothes? How long does she have to change her mind about giving up her child? Does the birth father, who in most cases is out of the picture, have to give his consent? Because of their laws, California and Texas have become magnets for couples seeking independent adoptions, while Minnesota and Michigan have none. "There are probably more infants from Minnesota placed...
Initially the amendment, a much tougher proposal passed late Tuesday night withonly a handful of senators present, requiredcolleges to prohibit alcohol companies frompromoting products, sponsoring campus events oradvertising in campus newspapers altogether...
...rules would prohibit researchers with NIH funding from holding stock in a company that would be affected by their research, said Newburgh. Federally-funded researchers would also be prevented from sharing information before publication with any company that has an interest in the results of their research...