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...ground rules. Although a minister who suggested abortion could possibly be accused of criminal conspiracy, he can presume that he is relatively safe from prosecution unless a complaint is lodged against him by one of the women he has counseled. Bielby makes certain that ministers agree to a stringent code that makes the final decision the woman's rather than the minister's. "Our real hope," says Bielby, "is that the abortion laws in the state will be changed so that this kind of service will no longer be necessary...
...Massachusetts Department of Public Health will hold public hearings on air quality standards on Tuesday, November 25, and the coalition is attempting to gain public support for more stringent controls than those proposed by the department...
...thinkers and doers in this experimental human laboratory are immensely busy. Having created so much smog, they are bound to be the first in the alleviation of it, perhaps by perfecting the carbonfree auto engine, perhaps through more stringent traffic legislation. Little by little, they will assume firmer control over environmental deterioration by creating bigger units of government that can act on a regional rather than a local basis...
...that I hope that stringent laws against heterosexuals who "commit forcible rape, seduce children or commit sex acts in public" will remain on the books...
Puritanical Proscriptions. Distinctions between types of homosexuals should be at the heart of the nation's legal policies, the report argues. Penalties should remain stringent for homosexuals who commit forcible rape, seduce children or commit sex acts in public. But "discreet homosexuality is the private business of the individual rather than a subject for public regulation"; prohibition of "the crime against nature," as many statute books coyly phrase it, merely raises the homosexual's vulnerability to blackmail and "exacerbates" his mental-health problems. The commission recommends that the U.S. follow the example of England, which two years...