Word: prohibitions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem with combatting Patrick's religious bounty-hunting is that it is a private endeavor, and constitutional guarantees of religious freedom only prohibit Government interference. If Patrick is not stopped under criminal statutes, some sort of civil action may be the only legal avenue against his crusade. In the meantime, says Dean Kelley, the verdict has made deprogramming "far and away" the leading religious-liberty problem in the U.S. "Apparently it's now open season on young adults who persist in religious groups that their parents or spouses oppose...
...National Institutes of Health has been working on a set of guidelines covering the use of aborted fetuses for research purposes. Last week, in the wake of a furor created by public reaction to this proposal, the NIH bypassed its panel and recommended instead a code that would effectively prohibit all research on aborted fetuses...
...revised guidelines, which must still be approved by NIH Director Dr Robert S. Stone and the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ban all experiments involving women about to undergo abortions if they might harm the fetus, and prohibit any experiments that would prolong the life of an abort ed fetus once its ultimate survival is judged to be impossible. Few research ers are expected to violate the ban, which applies to any American scientist receiving NIH support. Anyone who does can lose federal support for all other research he may be conducting...
Burger was not troubled by the argument that because no one has proved pornography harmful, states have no right to prohibit it. "Although there is no conclusive proof of a connection between antisocial behavior and obscene material," said Burger, a legislature "could quite reasonably determine that such a connection does or might exist." Obscenity, Burger added, has never been protected by the First Amendment. Thus there is no constitutional problem-which leaves states free to protect "the quality of life and the total community environment, the tone of commerce in the great city centers and, possibly, the public safety itself...
...cannot bring criminal charges. The IRS investigation, which could result in criminal prosecution, reportedly covers much of the same ground as the SEC complaint and also looks into the possibility that Smith-controlled firms made contributions to Nixon's 1972 campaign, in violation of federal laws that prohibit corporate political gifts...