Word: moralisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...vote opened up the lawmakers to charges of "legislating morality." The charge is true: indeed, most laws, such as those against theft and murder, involve moral judgments. When the danger of doing wrong is greatest, the legislature must be best prepared to decide along moral lines; in this case, while legal debate over the ethics involved prevented the legislature from taking a stronger stand, it did what it could to prevent the state from involving itself it what it saw as clearly wrong...
...time when Jimmy Carter's pious announcements about "human rights" presume to add a moral tone to American foreign policy, we need to remember Allende and the thousands of other Chileans that the junta continues to torture and imprison with the financial support of U.S. banks...
...Corporation's policy stands, that group will, through the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, spend the next few months reviewing the operations of 50 to 60 firms on a case-by-case basis. This agonizingly deliberate review may or may not yield a moral decision. In its April report the Corporation decried apartheid as "repugnent and inhumane." We hope the members of the Corporation will find the strength to back up this conviction, and take a strong moral stand where they have so far found it inconvenient...
...restricting state funding for abortions, leaving poor women without the freedom to decide whether or not they would like to have abortions. The bill, which was sponsored by state representatives Ray Flynn and Charles Doyle, is damaging and reprehensible because it places an economic constraint on a private and moral decision...
Poor women have been able to continue using Medicaid funds to pay for their abortions since the first week of September, when the Massachusetts Organization for the Repeal of Anti-Abortion Laws (MORAL) got a temporary injunction on the Massachusetts bill, and MORAL is hopeful that it will be able to completely overturn the Doyle-Flynn measure in October...