Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relatively prosperous suburban whites. Prospective clients who dial the M.C.P.P.C.'s Detroit number-964-0838-hear a recorded female voice that gives names and telephone numbers of participating ministers. The roster, whose members represent almost all Protestant denominations, changes regularly. Each woman caller is told to bring a doctor's certificate indicating a positive pregnancy and the date of conception. During the counseling session, however, she has to undergo neither sermonizing nor inquiries into her sexual conduct...
...tonight, both Colburn and Shaw are healthy and the only question is Pottetti, although he has been okayed by the doctor...
...District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell -son of the late famous pediatrician Dr. Arnold Gesell-declared unconstitutional a 68-year-old Washington law that made it a crime for any doctor to perform an abortion except when "necessary for the preservation of the mother's life or health." Judge Gesell called on Congress to write "a far more scientific and appropriate statute" for the District of Columbia. And he made it clear that the capital's only public hospital must promptly liberalize its policy on therapeutic abortions so that the operations will be as available to the poor...
...been accused under the old statute of an illegal abortion. Gesell ruled that the law was too vague; he pointed out, for example, that it did not make clear whether "health" was meant to include varying degrees of mental as well as physical health. Moreover, said Gesell, a doctor indicted under the statute was "presumed guilty" unless he could prove to a jury that the operation was necessary. In the companion case of a nurse's aide named Shirley Boyd who had performed an abortion, Judge Gesell refused to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that only licensed physicians...
...Shaw once wrote. "It is more to the point that every government has the electorate at deserves; for the orators, of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will. Thus our democracy moves in a vicious circle of reciprocal worthiness and unworthiness." A prominent Boston doctor goes somewhat further. "Bostonians are basically thieves," he says, and they always put people in office that they can identify with...