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...call upon all of us to strive for a more meaningful ethic of sexual behavior--one that repudiates sexual self-gratification at the expense of another, whether that gratification is achieved by aggressive persuasion, bullying, coercion, or outright force...
...accused to cry out, "I did it." Sometimes police and prosecutors have been tempted to whip the suspect down that road with anything from a subtle threat to a back-room clubbing. For that reason, courts have long held that forced confessions, whether they were obtained by coercion, beating or psychological pressure, could not be used against an accused person in court. Last week, in a ruling that showed just how vulnerable the legacy of the Earl Warren years has become, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that maybe forced confessions were not such an important matter after...
...think I am as offensive and irrational as I think them. This, nevertheless, does not give the university the right to step in and decide which of us is right. Brown's overzealous administration needs to realize that a community that protects freedom of speech cannot be founded on coercion...
Though Gorbachev has proved wondrously skilled at skipping between right and left in the past, it is no longer certain that the architect of perestroika could turn back now if he wanted to. Each step on the road to coercion and dictatorship takes him farther from former allies who might offer him a way back to reform. He might still harbor a vision of a peaceful, democratized Soviet Union. But he has not been able to find either the determination or the right time to bestow true freedom of choice on his country and all its people...
Sawhill is not recommending the use of force, but some experts believe that coercion is an inevitable next step. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota, points to a handful of cases in the past five years in which judges have tried to require women to take oral contraceptives or to force men to take drugs that lessen their sexual drive. "There are judges out there who will try to use Norplant," says Caplan. Others worry that some developing countries will force the contraceptive on women without their full consent in a misguided...