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...because abortion is such a morally complex decision that liberals believe that it best be left in the hands of the individual, not of a distant Washington bureaucracy. Our thoughts on abortion are sometimes so personally conflicting that individuals should have the freedom to resolve the issue themselves...
...that matter, about life as most people know it? His beloved mother died when he was a child, and for decades he has lived in withdrawn bachelorhood. Snuggled up in a charming book-lined cottage with his brother Warnie (the excellent Edward Hardwicke), he is sage but distant with his students, witty but somewhat abstract with his colleagues at the high table...
...articulate it--was that nature provides an ideal, not an individualized set of behavioral prescriptions; this is in sharp contrast to Sullivan's notion that because he is by nature homosexual, his conduct is acceptable under natural law. Non-procreative sex, masturbation, pre-marital sex and homosexuality are all distant from Mansfield's ideal and thus "imperfect." Homosexuality is even further from the ideal of natural law, argued Mansfield, because by its very nature it denies the prospect of procreation...
...Sachs, a fatal, degenerative neurological condition that strikes young children. However, many question the utility of DNA screening for other conditions like Gaucher's disease. The symptoms of this painful degenerative disease almost never appear before a person's mid-40s, and Gaucher's is treatable. Should the distant prospects of non-fatal disease prevent a marriage between two people who love each other? Inevitably, the more diseases added to the list, the more marriages prevented...
...distant past, The Crimson's newsroom was populated mainly by the first model of journalists--the Woodward and Bernstein wannabes. Our job was to ferret out the good, the bad and the just plain ugly at Harvard and offer it to the people...