Word: prohibition
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...contents. In a dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion, the woman's cervix is also dilated, but the fetus is dismembered before being removed in pieces through the vagina. Under questioning from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg conceded that the state could not constitutionally prohibit D&E abortions...
Pointing to the failure of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a measure to prohibit all testing of nuclear weapons that was defeated by Republicans in the Senate, Gore questioned whether Bush would distance himself from members of his party...
...Because the Boy Scouts are torn between competing sides in the culture wars. One faction is composed of such sponsoring institutions as schools and fire departments--more and more of which have policies that prohibit discrimination against gays. Also part of this faction are liberal religious groups that have filed a brief on behalf of Dale, including committees from the United Methodist Church, the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Together members of this faction sponsor some 22,000 Scout units (roughly 20% of the total). If the Scouts became a fiercely anti-gay group...
...bullying worked. The foreign service providers "cooperated," shutting down the programmers' websites. Skala and Jansson surrendered within days, giving Microsystems and Mattel all rights in their program, thus allowing it to be suppressed. Mattel is now seeking to have the judge in Massachusetts prohibit--in contempt of the injunction Skala and Jansson agreed to--any website in the world from distributing the information Skala and Jansson developed concerning Cyberpatrol...
...under criminal prosecution in Norway, at the behest of American movie studios, for releasing a program that helps to play DVD movies on non-Windows computers, but could also theoretically be used to make unauthorized copies of those DVDs. The Recording Industry Association of America is suing to prohibit distribution of Napster, a program for sharing MP3 music files used by hundreds of thousands of mostly young music lovers around the world. And Mattel, a company that makes products only young people use, is bullying their own market, trying to prohibit criticism of the censorware they sell adults to control...