Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those days are over. Pro-life groups, energized by the hope of overturning Roe, and pro-choice forces, galvanized by fear of that prospect, vow to turn every election in every state into a referendum on the issue. Both sides claim the moral high ground, but the battle surely will be fought at a lower -- much lower -- level. One side accuses the other of baby killing, showing pictures of fetuses contorted in pain as surgical instruments poke at them; the other warns of the enslavement of women by states if they force those who become pregnant to remain that...
Once politicians commit to reproductive freedoms, they will find it difficult not to embrace other issues important to women. Abortion is as much an economic and political debate as it is a moral debate. Representatives will have to recognize the economic and political causes of the second class status granted to women in this country. Abortion freedoms will translate into economic and political gains so long denied or ignored by the past two administrations...
...completely legal: state- sponsored lotteries, offtrack betting parlors and the like. In fact, many believe that the growth of legal betting has spurred illegal wagering by spreading the idea that "it's O.K. to gamble." So, the more governments sponsor various forms of wagering, the more insistent grows a moral question: Should the states promote, encourage and even hype the nation's betting frenzy...
Another big name, Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Stanley Cavell, teaches "Moral Perfectionism," one of the few Moral Reasoning classes that is being taught this year...
...best known name in the department is probably that of Conant University Professor John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice. He doesn't teach many courses any more, but his book is on the reading list in a lot of the philosophy and Moral Reasoning courses...