Word: adoptionism
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But it was the gag rule that really got doctors steamed. The Supreme Court case centered on the Public Health Service's Title X program, created during the Nixon Administration to provide family-planning services to low-income women. The original act stated explicitly that federal funds were not to...
All these proposals have the merit of being specific and thus open to debate. The improvement wrought by "enslaved person" over "slave" may not strike everyone as immediately apparent; to Americans who know their own history, "slave" is a word heavily charged with the connotations of brutal, involuntary degradation. As...
At first glance the Thai system, which is being considered for possible adoption by Indonesia and the Philippines, seems harmless enough. Every citizen over age 15 will be required to carry a card bearing a color photo, various pertinent facts (name, address and so on) and an identification number. Most...
Romanian adoption authorities now want to implement a tougher law, expected to be passed by parliament this week. The measure punishes baby selling with prison terms and requires that all foreign adoptions be approved by a special committee. Declared the Foreign Ministry: "The selling and buying of children has to...
But even Walt, ambitious social engineer that he was, might have been taken aback by the adoption of his commercial vision as Orlando's urban-planning model. Many new arrivals value the place because it offers the virtues of an escape: it is a suburban sprawl that strives to eliminate...