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...government calls it a matter of child welfare; the sect calls it religious persecution. Caught in the middle is Texas judge Barbara Walther, who was asked to weigh requests from the parents to hold twice-daily prayer meetings with the children and to reunite nursing mothers with the 77 kids who are under age 2. Prosecutors worried that the prayer meetings might be used to influence the children "in a way to impede the ongoing investigation," but Walther's suggestion that mainstream Mormons might serve as neutral monitors was turned down flat by the official church. Church spokesman Scott Trotter...
...Sound like a Mecca for lazy Harvard students? Don’t hold your breath...
...External Affairs Erin E. Lyons. The program places a “unique emphasis on population and international health.” Interest in the Humanitarian Studies Initiative has already expanded significantly. Last year, Appleby said, there were 30 participants; this year there are 55. Recent program alumni hold a number of top positions in the field of public health, including the program manager and coordinator positions at the World Health Organization, Oxfam America, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee, according to a statement released by HHI. Lyons and Appleby, who expressed their excitement at the inclusion...
...wrong, yet argues that women should have access to it because it is their right to choose. If a woman feels that abortion is wrong for her, that is because she feels that it takes a life, or at least the potential for a life. She must then hold that abortion is wrong for others, for the fact that the procedure is being done on another woman would not change that fact that it is still harming an innocent third party in her view: the child who will never make it past a few months of life. Those who feel...
...morally acceptable. As Lincoln said, it would be easy for someone who did not view slavery as wrong to advocate that the federal government not take a stand on the morality of slavery, while this would be an impossible position for someone who viewed slavery as morally wrong to hold. Similarly, those who advocate for the right to choose, while purporting to stay neutral on the topic of whether abortion is good or evil, predicate their argument on the fact that abortion is not the stain on America’s moral conscience that many believe...