Word: regarded
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Dilemma. If many Sephardic Jews regard themselves as second-class Israelis, it follows that the nation's 400,000 Arab citizens, though largely impassive, have reason to feel the same way. Although constantly subject to the subversive propaganda of Palestinian liberationists, they have remained, as a group, remarkably loyal to Israel. The Arabs even have a better voting record than their Jewish countrymen (85% to 82%) and occasionally volunteer for military service (though they are never drafted). Their per capita income has quintupled since 1948 (to about $1,000), and their literacy rate has jumped from...
...such cases are complicated by the very nature of the parents' refusal for consent. That is, the decision has implicit overtones with regard to the questions of church vs. state supremacy and rights assured by the First Amendment...
...some reason, however, the issue of the state's extension of guardianship to the infant who is not "normal" becomes more complex, although the courts have consistently declined to explain their apprehension. Courts have handed down both positive and negative decisions with regard to guardianship where surgery is required for the Mongoloid infant to live. Until five years ago, most states declined to appoint a guardian for such a child. In more recent years, however, the courts have tended to reverse themselves, and most will now remove jurisdiction of the child from the natural parents...
...that has made him the subject of the reverence of his patients and potential clientele. We hold in awe his abilities to preserve life at what appears to be virtual whim. He is the subject of our respect and our fear. For that which we fear most--death--we regard as in his capacity to control...
...consciences. For their profession is not a private affair: they must be subject to the evaluation of their individual clientele and responsible to the society at large. Historically, sanction by silence has inveitably led to exploitation. Trust becomes a license for abuse. Abuse of individuals by those whom we regard as our healers, constitutes abuse of the whole of humanity...