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There is no inalienable right to smoke cigarettes. Governments routinely prohibit certain behaviors, simply because they are self-injurious. Yet lurking behind the tobacco industry's defense--that people should make a "free and informed choice"--is the notion that cigarette smoking is a right...
...public already forbidden, the city outlawed sleeping outdoors after dark; a ban against drinking in public followed in 1983. A police task force set up to combat street crime has racked up 1,255 arrests for sleeping and camping violations in the past two years. While attempts to prohibit the eating of garbage have failed, some grocers deter hungry vagrants by sprinkling bleach on discarded food. Santa Barbara County election officials had been denying voting rights to people who did not have an address; three months ago, a state appeals court struck down the practice...
Reagan has tried to stop the passage of the 1986 Civil Rights Restoration Act by attaching an anti-abortion amendment. This act would prohibit the federal funding of institutions that discriminate on the basis of race, sex or disability. The Reagan amendment would replace these broken chains with new ones. Until women are no longer trapped in the vicious circle of poverty by their pregnancies, abortions will continue. The marches will continue. And life will lose a little of what makes it sacred...
However, the court's decision on Grove City drastically curtailed the scope of Title IX of the Education Ammendments of 1972--legislation designed to prohibit sex discrimination in education. The court ruled that anti-discrimination rules apply only to programs that are direct recipients of federal funding...
Sometimes the U.S. Supreme Court giveth. Sometimes it taketh away. Last week it did both when it looked at the pestiferous question of pornography. First it concluded that the city of Indianapolis had acted unconstitutionally when it sought to prohibit some pornography as a form of discrimination against women. Then the next day the court ruled that cities or towns are free to use zoning ordinances to confine adult-movie theaters to the fringes of towns...