Word: explicitness
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...prevent unwanted conceptions, abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion forces should unite in bringing responsible, explicit sex education to schoolchildren, at the increasingly young ages, at the cusp of puberty, when it will still have an impact. The more explicit, the more real it is: Take the gory pictures of aborted fetuses off the street corners and into the classrooms, so students understand what is at risk when they choose to have sex. Bring teenage mothers into classrooms, as well as those who have had abortions, to talk about their experiences. Perhaps most important, mention abstinence but spend time describing...
...doctors whose name appears under the dripping-blood graphics of the now-defunct site, you're likely to perceive the situation as threatening. But if you're an anti-abortion activist, you're likely to point to the definition of "unlawful threat," which the Supreme Court has ruled is "explicit language likely to cause imminent lawless action," and argue that your First Amendment rights protect language, even language some may find offensive. But is this just offensive language? Or is it essentially a call to arms - and therefore not protected under the First Amendment? Comparisons have been made with someone...
Unlike similar efforts last spring to restrict student access to Napster at Yale and other schools, the letter to Rudenstine makes no explicit threat of legal action...
...ongoing theological power struggle within the Vatican over the limits of the ecumenism promoted by John Paul II himself - or even of the more general friction between the church's more liberal and more conservative strands under his tenure. Monsignor Tarcisio Bertone, who introduced the document Tuesday, made explicit that the document was released to correct the "errors and ambiguities" of unnamed moderate Catholic theologians that had become widespread. Ratzinger added that such theologians were "manipulating and exceeding" the principle of religious tolerance by allowing for an equivalence between different religions...
CULTURE WARS He has teamed up with Bill Bennett to hand out "Silver Sewer" awards to producers of sexually explicit and violent films, music, TV and video games. He co-authored the law on the V chip, which lets parents filter what their children watch...