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While a moral consensus against all forms of abortion has yet to emerge—or, at least, yet to marshal the same political and financial resources as the militant pro-abortion lobby—a clear majority opposes the partial-birth variety. Not ideology, but natural human sentiment, has opened the eyes of enough Americans, and enough congressional legislators and Supreme Court justices, finally to ban the procedure. The fact stands, as some pro-abortion papers even indicated: Partial-birth abortion is cruel, barbaric, and inhumane...
...consensus was ever reached, and no clear plan ever devised...
...which it appears well on track to do. The project is an offshoot of the Human Genome Project (HGP), a massive effort to determine the sequence of the human genome, that is, the 3 billion base pairs of DNA in human cells. The result of that effort was a consensus of many individuals’ genomes, and because the genome is nearly-identical among all humans, it was enormously useful for scientists to have any idea of what the “average” DNA sequence...
...isn’t any other purpose except for sport or game.” “Scientists are exempted from cruelty laws, and in hunting, hunters are almost always excluded from anti-cruelty laws,” Sunstein said. Animal cruelty laws show that there is a consensus among the public that animals should not be subjected to torture or intense pain, according to Sunstein. But Porter Professor of Philosophy Christine M. Korsgaard, who has given a series of lectures on humans’ duties to animals, told the crowd that part of the reason why animal cruelty...
...like to hear more from readers about your past—and undoubtedly future—experiences about trying to get The Crimson to correct itself. Email me at ombudsman@thecrimson.com and I’ll report on the reader consensus in a future column...