41. The new law prohibits doctors from committing an " overt act " to kill a partially delivered fetus. 42. Auchincloss detailed a number of the overt acts in the indictment, which have been kept secret until now. 43. The bill prohibits doctors from committing an " overt act " designed to kill a partially delivered fetus. 44. They claimed that no overt act was committed by Mountaine and all evidence presented was circumstantial and inconclusive. 45. Hathaway angrily retorted that the government was not required to spell out every overt act of the alleged conspiracy. 46. Those allegations were specified in the Jackson indictment as being among 28 overt acts involved in the conspiracy charge. 47. That means a fired whistleblower cannot cite an allegedly retaliatory firing to meet the " overt act " requirement. 48. For example, in the original indictment, Nichols is charged with one overt act in the two months before the bombing. 49. Popular press articles tend to focus on the overt act because causing someone pain breaks a lot of social taboos. 50. There is no evidence at this time and no allegation of personal involvement in that overt act of this conspiracy,
