Word: outlawful
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...freedom to choose as surely as if it had banned abortions outright." The court's action set pro- and anti- abortion advocates at one another again, arguing the merits of the decision itself and predicting fearfully or hopefully that the court will next go the full distance and outlaw abortion altogether...
...gave us Bonnie and Clyde, Butch and Sundance. The '70s gave us The Sugarland Express and Badlands. Maybe one of the troubles with the '80s was that its movies were singularly lacking in truly memorable outlaw couples. Thelma & Louise is a sign that things are looking...
...A.N.C. gave the government until last Wednesday to outlaw the weapons. But De Klerk would not go beyond a meek compromise offer, allowing the weapons to be carried only on genuinely ceremonial occasions. Rather than let yet another deadline -- the third it has set in the past three weeks -- slide by, the A.N.C announced on Saturday that it would suspend talks with De Klerk on a new constitution until he made "progress" in meeting its demands. The A.N.C. will probably also boycott an all-party peace conference called by the government for this week, but De Klerk insisted he would...
...still regarded as different from other crimes. The worst that is said about someone whose home is burglarized after the door was left unlocked is that the victim was careless. With rape the all-too-common impulse remains to impugn the victim's moral character. Courts have come to outlaw testimony about a rape victim's sexual history unless it can be shown that the evidence has a direct bearing on the assault in question, but there are no such restrictions on the press. In the Palm Beach incident, it may be too late to repair the damage from having...
AALARM tells us it is just trying to further the cause of rational discourse. But in a recent poster, AALARM cited questionable statistics to indicate that most Americans believed that non-heterosexual sex should be outlawed. One of the most basic assumptions of "rational discourse" is that you don't try to outlaw your opponents. It's that simple. AALARM claims they are being oppressed, and in the same breath they want to outlaw those with whom they disagree...