Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other children as well. I believe there should be parental opt-outs if you don't want your child attending a certain health class, say, about sex education. But I don't think that gives parents who object to it on behalf of their own children the right to prohibit other parents who think it is in line with their values for their children to be given such information. Or that parents who on religious grounds oppose the teaching of evolution should have the right to deny their child the access to information about evolution so the child can make...
Bellicosity poisoned relations with University Hall, too. Councillors' behavior at monthly Faculty meetings was utterly embarrassing. In good faith, President Neil L. Rudenstine agreed to waive University policies which technically prohibit students from speaking at meetings. Rudenstine even agreed to answer councillors' questions--provided he was given advance notice in order to prepare a comprehensive answer...
...slot--other than Perot. Last week the most likely alternative, former Republican Senator and independent Governor Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, said he would not run. Any Reform Party nominee would have to bring his own bankroll or rely on those dread special interests, since campaign-finance laws prohibit Perot from spending his billions on anyone for President but himself. That means the Reform Party may wind up being about Ross Perot after...
...staff makes the sweeping statement that society "has no claim on the individual...that trumps the individual's right to privacy in decision making." No claim? Didn't the staff just say that it would prohibit third-trimester abortions...
...staff proclaims that "it is unfair to force [the pro-life] position upon those who do not share this belief." But if it is fair to prohibit mothers who believe they have a right to third-trimester abortions from having these abortions, then the real issue is not whether the mother should be allowed to decide for herself but whether the young fetus is morally equivalent to the older fetus...