Word: acte
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Stephens could so easily have taken his patient to a non-Catholic hospital, a few miles away, if he had desired to abide by medical ethics. However, by his own admission, he hoped to" get by without the administrators' knowledge of his act . . . By so doing, he repudiated his signed pledge to adhere to hospital rules...
...Roman Catholic Church and those who follow its teachings that the mutilation of the body for the purposes of contraception is a violation of the natural law and the revealed teachings of Christ. For this reason, Sister Mary Adele and the Brownsville Mercy Hospital were morally bound to act as they...
...Smith Act of 1940 (under which the eleven leaders of the C.P were convicted) makes Communist activities a possible basis for criminal charges, reasoned the court. Therefore, a witness asked to testify about such activities may justifiably enfold himself in the Fifth Amendment, which provides that no one in a criminal case is required to be a witness against himself. As precedent, Justice Black recalled Chief Justice John Marshall's famed ruling in 1807 reaffirming this guarantee of the Fifth Amendment in the Aaron Burr treason trial. From Mr. Burr to Mrs. Blau the constitutional line was clear...
...court's latest decision also brought into sharp question the constitutionality of the McCarran anti-subversive act, which Communists are currently defying. Forcing a person to register as a Communist might also conceivably be held as an infringement of his rights under the Fifth Amendment...
...China . . ." In the next two days, the Assembly overwhelmingly approved the cease-fire resolution. Only Russia's Jacob Malik objected. He insisted on withdrawal of all U.N. forces from Korea. Ceasefire, he cried, was "merely a camouflage designed to make it possible for American forces to continue . . . their act of armed aggression...