Word: repeals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Scientist, the largest U.S. religious body favoring spiritual healing over medical attention, has long argued for them. Christian Science spokesman Gary Jones describes as "terrible" the prospect that public rage at the Oregon deaths might "stop the inquiry into more effective means of treatment" by spiritual means. Champions of repeal, of course, feel otherwise. A report in the April issue of the professional journal Pediatrics documented 140 child deaths "from religion-motivated medical neglect" between 1975 and 1995, attributed to 23 religious denominations in 34 states. Its co-author, Texas critical-care pediatrician Seth Asser, believes there are hundreds...
...endangered their children, leaving it to the state to intervene if necessary. The results are inconclusive: a check on the state's biggest county shows that no one has self-reported. And Michael McConnell, a lawyer who has defended faith-healing parents in neglect cases, is worried that exemption-repeal advocates have no patience for more such experiments. Anger, he suggests, has made them "so contemptuous of the parent that they are likely to overlook solutions that would work much better...
What's emerging is a Barr-backed plan that would just delay the proposal a year or so -- which is unacceptable to opponents of any national ID plan. "Certainly we advocate a complete repeal. Anything short of that would be a defeat," says Patrick Poole, deputy director of the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Technology Policy. Poole has found an ally in Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who's introduced legislation to rescind the Transportation Department plan. Paul blames Congress for passing the law in the first place, then trying to shift the blame to the Transportation Department...
...irony, says Hillenbrand, is that the request comes from Blair's Labor Party government -- during its years in opposition, the party had consistently promised to repeal the Official Secrets...
...women having to choose between raising a child without cash benefits and having an abortion paid for by Medicaid will pick abortion. And the report is likely to become exhibit A for the American Civil Liberties Union and the NOW Legal and Educational Defense Fund, which are suing to repeal the law. This strange sorority of opponents also contends that the cap unfairly penalizes the 25,000 children born without benefits and has a disproportionate effect on African Americans...