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...approve of spousal notification, provided there are exceptions for women in abusive situations, and when he was an appeals court judge Sam Alito upheld such a provision. But the Supreme Court ruled in Casey that "it cannot be claimed that the father's interest in the fetus' welfare is equal to the mother's protected liberty...." Requiring a woman to notify her husband before an abortion, the Justices argued, "embodies a view of marriage" that is "repugnant to this court's present understanding of marriage and of the nature of the rights secured by the Constitution...
...allowing for religious organizations to seek an exception to the law. Though we agree ultimately with Romney’s proposed legislation, we disagree with his rationale: this law does not in any way offend religious freedoms; namely, it does not single out religious institutions in its insistence on equal treatment of gay and lesbian couples. The law here implicates the Catholic Church only because its discriminatory anti-gay policy is enshrined in its canonical law. We urge the Church to reconsider its treatment of gays and lesbians. It is high time that the Church liberalizes its stance on homosexuality...
...instance, when the male and female responses were given equal weight to adjust for different response rates, the percentage of students who disapprove of FAS members’ handling of their relationship with Summers fell from 66 percent...
...executive director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program, Robert J. Blendon, recommended that The Crimson recalculate the results to give equal weight to the responses from females and males...
CUBAN: It's equal opportunity, but not equal experience or levels of success...