Word: judgmentalism
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...Looby practically snorts at this: ?What about a woman who decides to continue a pregnancy? Is that clouded judgment as well?? Hunt himself acknowledges, as long as we are probing moral consistency, that if the doctor is taking a life, ?why not charge a higher-class felony?? It?s just part of the balancing act, he says. If you want to save unborn children you have to target the doctors. But ?my feeling is that whether a doctor were facing 5 years or 20, it will have the same impact...
...change and only inflamed the situation further. Even if the McCain measure had passed, the Indians see it as merely a first step, citing another recent case in which the BLM ignored a NAGPRA committee recommendation without even a court ruling. "With NAGPRA," says Downs, "you get a judgment but no enforcement." With as many as 118,000 sets of Native American remains still awaiting repatriation, that problem is not going away...
...year, the vast majority on healthy mothers with healthy fetuses. Yet the fact that something rarely occurs is not a valid argument for why it should be permitted, if it is otherwise morally reprehensible. Still, supporters of partial-birth abortion insist the Court has no right to make a judgment call that, in their opinion, should be up to the woman and her doctor as to how to best terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Considering the fact that there are laws restricting how much pain butchers (for lack of a better word for people who work in slaughterhouses) are allowed...
Today was supposed to be judgment day for University President Lawrence H. Summers. But rather than subject himself to the possibility of a second annual vote of “no confidence” from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard’s embattled president decided instead to avoid another round of public humiliation by relinquishing his cherished throne...
...BEEN BOMBARDED FOR TWO WEEKS DURING QUESTION TIME OVER THE AWB (IRAQI WHEAT BRIBERY) MATTER. I find this determination of people to make a judgment before (commissioner Terence) Cole has brought down his findings completely at odds with our approach to due process. I can assure you that if the inquiry finds that laws have been broken, these people will be prosecuted...