Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...booklet's message was obvious: Abortion stops a beating heart. For many, the debate stops there. No cost/benefit analysis can outweigh the competing moral claim that abortion obliterates human life...
...recent weeks, it has been proposed by supporters of choice on this campus that the appeals in the pamphlet to one's moral conscience are "inimical to what campus debate should be." As if the pre-born child were irrelevant, the advocates assert that the picture was "designed to provoke an immediate emotional reaction rather than rational debate...
Most troubling is the liberals' insistence that pro-life groups bracket their moral arguments from debate. They claim Roe v. Wade neither encourages nor discourages women from seeking abortions; it only grants women the freedom to make this decision for themselves...
...legalized abortion springs from the moral decision that toleration of the practice outweighs all competing claims of justice. This is best illustrated by the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, in which Stephen A. Douglas claimed he would tolerate slavery even though he personally opposed it. Abraham Lincoln correctly replied that a neutrality claim embodies an antecedent moral judgment. Once cannot adopt neutrality towards something he opposes, Lincoln said, because "no man can logically say he doesn't care whether a wrong is voted up or voted down.... [I]f it is a wrong, [one] cannot say people have a right...
...American booster who boasted that he drank only U.S.-brewed ale, and Thomas Jefferson came over to that side as President. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt assailed free trade. T.R.'s view: "Pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber...