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...Clearly, the mother must consider, and consider carefully, which of her moral responsibilities is the heavier—it comes down to a question of how adversely the child will affect her. In some cases, having the baby will not only put the mother’s life in danger of irreparable and devastating socioeconomic harm, it will also prejudice her ability to successfully raise future children. In these situations, the moral value of ensuring the health and success of mother and future offspring can trump the moral cost of aborting the present fetus...
...charges, you made several escape attempts and eventually succeeded in escaping from prison," Jolicoeur wrote, referring to the case of the downed Cubana Airliner. "Due to your long history of criminal activity and violence in which innocent civilians were killed, your release from detention would pose a danger to both the community and the national security of the United States...
...hasn't done anything in court, really, to make sure this man stays detained as a terrorist suspect, as a terrorist danger to society," Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela's Ambassador to the U.S., tells TIME. "The Administration must either extradite Posada Carriles to Venezuela under the terms of our 1922 extradition treaty, or try him here in the U.S. as a known terrorist suspect in this hemisphere. Otherwise, the U.S. is just demonstrating further that it has a double moral standard when it comes to fighting terrorism." Cuban leaders hosting this week's summit of the Non Aligned Movement echoed those...
...Posada posed a real threat to the U.S., but Magistrate Norbert J. Garney ruled those findings insufficient to continue detention because of a 2001 Supreme Court ruling that ICE cannot detain people with immigration violations for more than six months unless the government deems the individual to be a danger or proves there are special circumstances. Garney, who works in the U.S. District Court in El Paso, where Posada now sits in detention, placed Posada's fate firmly in the hands of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. According to Garney, Posada can remain in detention if the Attorney General certifies...
...Maybe. But just how much danger is the White House really in? It is rare for political leaders to be prosecuted for genuine attempts to protect the public, and few question the motives behind the extreme interrogation methods, even if they strongly disagree with them. More to the point, Graham, Warner and McCain have larded their bill with protections from prosecution for anything but "grave breaches" of the conventions, which they believe should be adequate to protect the White House...