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...stepped into the debate over a government decision to increase the percentage of state jobs reserved for poor people from lower castes. The Supreme Court judges said that parliament should allow the Court to examine the issue as well, and demanded that the government provide statistical backing for its argument in support of affirmative action. Wealthy elites from lower castes - the co-called "creamy layer" who have benefited from past affirmative action - should not benefit further, the Court said...
Many liberals decry the idea that life begins at conception, and many conservatives champion it. Both sides, however, tend to agree that the question of when a human becomes a human eventually strays from the territory of rational argument into the realm of spirituality...
While this argument cannot, of course, be extrapolated to the debate over how to treat post-implantation embryos, the conclusion is nonetheless extremely relevant socially. For example, it shows that rape victims’ decisions to prevent embryo implantation are perfectly acceptable ethically, and can in no way be compared to the “death penalty...
Moreover, this argument has much broader potential consequences, because, according to the Guttmacher Institute’s studies of worldwide abortion rates, only a small fraction of abortions occur despite consistent birth control use (i.e. the pregnancies come as a complete surprise to the women involved). Thus, only these abortions cannot be prevented by morally acceptable methods such as steady contraception or, in emergency cases, implantation-preventing medication. And, as reproductive science continues to improve, both in the detection and control of fertilization, these remaining ethical concerns surrounding unwanted pregnancy may soon cease to exist altogether...
Bose’s central argument is that the world did not suddenly jump from a collection of nation-states to the era of globalization. Instead, there is an oft-overlooked intermediary period between the two extremes...