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...Instead of maintaining the clause that abortion should remain rare, and thus placing a cloud of moral doubt over the procedure, pro-choice Americans should view abortion as morally acceptable. This is the only way to maintain consistency between the morality and legality of abortion. Abraham Lincoln made this same argument when he responded to Stephen Douglas in their famous debates. Douglas supported federal neutrality on the slavery issue, while claiming to be personally ambivalent on whether slavery was right or wrong, which Lincoln called an untenable moral position. Lincoln argued that it was only reasonable for the federal government...
...rained out. Stendahl was bestowed the responsibility of deciding which of the students were going to be able to fit inside Sanders Theatre, Gomes said. “With great humor, he drew names out of his hat—he wore a tall silk hat like Abraham Lincoln,” Gomes said. “It bound us to him. When I went to see him just last Saturday...I asked him ‘Do you remember our Commencement?’ He smiled broadly—clearly he did.” After serving as dean...
...gospel passage the Pope has chosen is the verse from the Gospel of John including Jesus' offering to his disciples, "peace be with you." But that sentence begins, "On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked ... for fear of the Jews." Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League says he hopes the Pope is able to excise those words. However, the Pope clearly wants to speak about peace and this is the Gospels' most powerful reference to it. Priests do not usually edit within the biblical sentence of a gospel reading...
...second installment of the Tanner Lecture Series on Human Values was erudite and fast-paced, touching on topics from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to Abraham Lincoln’s possible sexual orientations...
...field of human values” are “one of the greatest intellectual traditions at Harvard,” Faust said in her introduction to Kushner’s speech. Kushner’s second lecture, focusing on film, anxiety and his new screenplay about Abraham Lincoln, is today at 4:30 in Lowell Lecture Hall. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...