Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hospital. This assumption depends on a proof that the fetus was viable, and if Flanagan gains a conviction, he will have defined viability in an extremely conservative way: at a gestational age as low as 20 weeks, Since the supreme Court has conceded to states the right to protect the "potentiality" for life by forbidding abortion after the point of viability regardless of the wishes of the mother, this case could ultimately set a drastic limit on al abortions, is its definition of this critical stage...
Ford's explanation in a message to Congress was that the U.S., to protect its own "national security," should give South Viet Nam a supplemental appropriation of $300 million and the anti-Communist government of Cambodia's Lon Nol $222 million. Said Ford: "We cannot turn our backs on these embattled countries. U.S. unwillingness to provide adequate assistance to allies fighting for their lives would seriously affect our credibility throughout the world." All that was being sought for Saigon, Kissinger said, was for Congress to provide the funds that it had authorized for the current fiscal year...
...strength of these obligations, and the willingness to respect and comply with them, probably depend less on the expectation of punishment for violation than they do on the presence of a widely shared belief in the primacy of free expression. Nonetheless, we believe that the positive obligation to protect and respect free expression shared by all members of the university should be enforced by appropriate formal sanctions, because obstruction of such expression threatens the central function of the university. We further believe--that such sanctions should be made explicit, so that potential violators will be aware of the consequences...
...addition to the university's primary obligation to protect free expression there are also ethical responsibilities assumed by each member of the university community, along with the right to enjoy free expression. Though these are much more difficult to state clearly, they are of great importance. If freedom of expression is to serve its purpose, and thus the purpose of the university, it should seek to enhance understanding. Shock, hurt, and anger are not consequences to be weighed lightly. No member of the community with a decent respect for others should use, or encourage others to use, slurs and epithets...
...conclusions we draw, then, are these: even when some members of the university fail to meet their social and ethical responsibilities, the paramount obligation of the university is to protect their right to free expression. This obligation can and should be enforced by appropriate formal sanctions. If the university's overriding commitment to free expression is to be sustained, secondary social and ethical responsibilities must be left to the informal processes of session, example, and argument...