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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: Sexual Harassment (was Re: Simon you're no ...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.012457.16643@rotag.mi.org>
- Keywords: You expect me to mark my deletions? Dream on...
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <BzD9GL.L7s@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec20.021358.18235@rotag.mi.org> <1992Dec25.200245.13638@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:24:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.200245.13638@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec20.021358.18235@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >
- >[Where's that chainsaw...]
- >
- >>Not really. They could opt to just run the risk of a lawsuit. The point here
- >>is that Cochran has thrown his support behind a "legal restriction" that
- >>doesn't exist right now. Above, you even admit that persons OTHER than the
- >>patient, can sign the consent forms, but Cochran made no such qualification
- >>when he announced his "legal restriction". Above, you seem to admit that
- >>while the consent forms may "feel" [sic] like a statutory requirement, that
- >>they may not in fact be a statutory requirement. Unless you have a rabbit to
- >>pull out of your hat now, I think it's time to admit that no such "legal
- >>restriction" exists.
- >
- >Wrong again, Kebbin. I had six teeth pulled a couple of months ago. They
- >wouldn't do the surgery until I had signed the form. Obviously, if I was
- >under the age of consent, my legal guardians would have to sign.
-
- Was this a statutory requirement, or just something the insurance company
- (yours and/or your dentist's) required?
-
- In any case, there's a legal difference between "consent" and "a request".
- It's a matter of who initiates what. You would mandate abortion "requests".
-
- - Kevin
-