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Entries from August 2008

More on the HHS Reg

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

RHRealityCheck makes some more specific critiques of the proposed Physician Conscience reg, which I respond to.  Many of the critiques are based on incorrect statements of existing law.

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Tags: On the Legal System

HHS Is Not Redefining Abortion; the Reg is Not a Crisis

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past month, you’ve heard the rumors–and seen calls to action all over the internet–about a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that the Department of Health and Human Services has released on “Physician Conscience.” The calls to action range from the specific (and false) allegation that the [...]

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Tags: On the Legal System

Leaving, on an intermodal transit combo

August 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Tonight I leave Massachusetts for sixteen days of adventure.
I will take the bus to the commuter rail station, the commuter train into the city, the subway to South Station, and the Silver Line (a Dual-Mode Bus that runs through Subway tunnels on catenary wires) to Logan Airport, where I will take the plane to Chicago and [...]

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Tags: Travel

After the bar…

August 1st, 2008 · No Comments

While we were waiting to have our exams collected and inventoried, and all blatantly disregarding the repeated, but not particularly emphatic instructions not to speak, a member of the Board of Bar Examiners stepped up to the rostrum and announced:

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Tags: On the Legal System