Word: intentionalism
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...rape and incest, where there is overwhelming public support for allowing abortion as an option? Here the lawmakers admit that they carved out a little gray area. Hunt notes that the bill forbids doctors from prescribing any drug or doing any procedure on a pregnant woman ?with the specific intent? of ending a pregnancy. It also protects the right of women to use ? a contraceptive measure, drug or chemical, if it is administered prior to the time when a pregnancy could be determined through conventional medical testing...
...program looks like a crisis in the making: The International Atomic Energy Agency board started a new meeting Monday in Vienna to discuss sending Iran's case to the UN Security Council; the U.S. plans to share with allies what it claims is new evidence that Iran's real intent is to build nuclear weapons, rather than simply a civilian energy program; and Iran defiantly warns that if the matter is referred to the Security Council, it will resume industrial-scale uranium enrichment - the activity that most concerns the West, given that it can be used both for civilian reactor...
Summers’ Judaism entered the spotlight a year into his tenure, when he famously said a petition urging the University to divest from Israel was one of several actions that were “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent...
...with Israel, honked the herd. (Some European geese—may they get bird flu—went farther, banning Israeli academics, even critics of government policy, from journals and meetings.) When President Summers suggested, much more charitably than necessary in my view, that the result, if not the intent, of the divestment petition was anti-Semitic, his remarks were decried as censorious. Censorious? I thought uffishly, wondering why I’d moved to the Kremlin on the Charles instead of joining the IDF and getting a nice new Galil assault rifle. I’ll show you censorious...
...writing in response to several points made in Emily Ingram’s recent op-ed (“Scribbles on the Door,” Feb. 27). While Ingram’s intent is clearly positive, her recommendations are not feasible or ideal for several reasons. Ingram proposes that all peer counseling groups be brought under the aegis of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR). The OSAPR is not a logical place to provide oversight to peer counseling groups that primarily focus on eating concerns (ECHO), sexual orientation/gender identity (CONTACT), general adjustment (Room 13), or contraception...