Word: legalism
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...over the time period you're concerned with, I'm having trouble seeing those changes as "improvements." Meanwhile, other measures (say, of attempted suicide by teens) have seen no improvement over that same period, and still other measures (of academic performance in high school, use of inhalants, illegal and legal use of prescription drugs, and so on) have gotten worse...
...March 20, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights criticized Poland for having no effective legal framework for pregnant women to assert their right to abortion on medical grounds. It awarded 36-year old Alicja Tysiac 25,000 euros, or about $33,250, in damages after doctors refused to grant her permission to terminate her pregnancy despite serious risk to her eyesight. Tysiac, who suffers from severe myopia, became pregnant for the third time in 2000. Three doctors told her she could go blind if she gave birth but, contravening Polish law, refused to write her a certificate that...
...abortion in all cases, including rape and incest. The ruling Law and Justice party has agreed to change the constitution to include a phrase that says that life is protected "since conception" to strengthen the anti-abortion laws but wants to keep the current exceptions that make the procedure legal. The opposition is split: with the left against the constitional change and the center-right uncertain of what position to support. A vote is planned for mid-April...
...Underground abortions are one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in Chile. Although Chile has one of South America's strictest anti-abortion codes, it's estimated to have twice as many abortions each year (200,000) as Canada - a country with twice Chile's population. (Abortion is legal in Canada.) As a result, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, a socialist, late last year sanctioned the free distribution of emergency "morning-after" contraception pills at government-run hospitals. In a nation where three-fourths of the public say they oppose liberalizing the abortion law - which, like Nicaragua's, bars abortion...
...court decision earlier this year appears to offer the squatters some hope. The Seventh Day Adventist church sought to remove residents from one of Fiji's oldest squatter settlements, on a steep hill and riverside land at Tamavua in Suva's northern suburbs. The church alleged it had legally purchased the squatters' home sites from local chiefs. But the squatters, known locally as "blackbirders" (Solomon Islanders brought to Fiji to work on plantations in the 1930s), argued that more than 40 years ago they were given permission by the chiefs to live on the land. Fiji High Court Justice Roger...