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Megan Gillespie Rice, S.H.C.J., (born January 31, 1930) is an anti-nuclear activist and Roman Catholic Religious Sister of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and former missionary.〔William J. Broad, ("Behind Nuclear Breach, a Nun's Bold Fervor" ), ''New York Times'', Aug. 11, 2012.〕 She is notable for breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the age of 82 with the Transform Now Plowshares group in an antiwar protest referred to as "the biggest security breach in the history of the nation's atomic complex."〔 Rice was sentenced to almost 3 years in prison. In May 2015, after serving 2 years, she was released. The conviction was ultimately vacated by a federal appeals court. This was on the grounds that the prosecution failed to prove that Rice and the two others had the intention of causing injury to the national defense system.〔http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2015/5/19〕 Part of the court ruling read "But vague platitudes about a facility's 'crucial role in the national defense' are not enough to convict a defendant of sabotage."〔http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2015/05/08/sabotage-conviction-overturned-nun-megan-rice-activists-uranium/26996263/〕 ==Early life and education== Rice, the youngest of three girls in a Roman Catholic family of Irish descent, was born and raised in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.〔Tom Deignan, ("Are the Irish liberal or conservative? GOP's Paul Ryan meet Sister Megan Gillespie Rice" ), IrishCentral.com, August 17, 2012.〕 Her father, Frederick W. Rice, was an obstetrician-gynecologist who taught at New York University and treated patients at several New York City hospitals. Her mother, Madeleine Newman Hooke Rice, was a Barnard College graduate who undertook graduate studies at Columbia University while her children were growing up, obtaining a doctorate in history and writing a dissertation on Catholic views about slavery.〔〔 Frederick and Madeleine Rice were active participants in the Catholic Worker movement and considered Dorothy Day a good friend.〔 Rice was educated in Catholic schools and joined the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus at age 18.〔 She was trained as an elementary school teacher and taught in the early grades in Mount Vernon, New York. Through part-time study at Fordham and Villanova Universities, she earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Villanova in 1957, then studied cellular biology at Boston College, where she received a master's degree.〔〔〔("November 1997" ), "Chronology of SOA Prisoners of Conscience", School of the Americas Watch, soaw.org; last visited August 8, 2012.〕 She then served various stints as a teacher in Nigeria and Ghana from 1962 to 2004.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Megan Rice」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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