Word: moralizers
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...Doctors attempted to separate the conjoined Bijani twins to free them from lifelong attachment, and Charles Krauthammer attempted, in his criticism of physician-assisted suicide, to split similarly inseparable moral hairs. The Bijani twins, Krauthammer wrote, "were not seeking self-destruction; they were seeking liberation. And they were trying to undo a form of mutilation imposed on them by nature." If the twins were willing to die rather than continue living attached to each other, that's hardly different from people who prefer death to being trapped in a diseased or dysfunctional body. There are those who do not believe...
With a friend of mine accompanying to give me moral support and a reason not to wet myself, I daresay I took it like...
...anything but the exuberant, stocky ex--high school wrestling captain, a guy whose neck--what there is of it--strains over his collar. But the portrait of Dean as scrappy outsider is incomplete. Rather, he combines the sense of entitlement afforded by a childhood of extreme wealth with the moral certitude gained by his decision not to merely live off--or, for that matter, maximize--that wealth. Instead, Dean got a medical degree, which gave him confidence, a comfort in his own skin. In that sense--and in some others--Dean, who has been compared so often to George McGovern...
...newly harvested embryonic stem cells could be studied with federal funds. But the 70 or so stem-cell lines already in researchers' hands were fair game. "This," he said in a televised address, "allows us to explore the promise and potential of stem-cell research without crossing a fundamental moral line...
...image. Come to the New Testament, Jesus seemed to have a ministry that favored women in a culture that did not. On Pentecost morning, the room that had this outpouring happen was filled with women as well as men. God is an equal opportunity employer. But the moral stipulation of how one lives ones life will always be important. The moral code as far as human sexual expression that is blessed is that between a man and a woman. In Genesis God created male and female. He didn't create men and men or women and women. He created male...