Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial, Monsanto's lawyers trundle boxes of documents to court on baggage carts from leased offices two blocks away. The courtroom is cluttered with 4-ft. by 5-ft. symptom boards, outlining alleged dioxin-related plaintiff ills ranging from headaches and high blood pressure to depression and decreased sexual desire. Carr concedes that "none of my clients is falling down sick." But the core of his case concerns possible future cancer developing from dioxin exposure in the 1979 spill...
...second principle is that reproduction should occur, as the Instruction says, only "in marriage through the specific and exclusive acts of husband and wife," that is, normal sexual intercourse. In the Vatican view, couples must combine the "unitive" (sexual) and the "procreative" aspects of marriage. Artificial methods of producing children consider only procreation, says Rome, while artificial methods of birth control consider only the sexual aspect. Since artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization bypass the normal "conjugal act," neither method is allowed...
...Jesuit Father Richard McCormick of the University of Notre Dame, who thinks the in vitro passage is the "weakest part" of the entire statement. In his view "the child should be the product of a loving act. That doesn't necessarily translate as a result of an act of sexual intercourse." McCormick agrees that the "unitive" and "procreative" spheres need not be combined in every act of a married couple...
...Pope and his doctrinal watchdogs find these developments violations of the dignity of the nascent human life, transgressions of the child's right to be born into a natural family, interference with natural sexual reproduction between husband and wife, or attempts at sinister scientific "control and domination" over the human person. In addition, the Instruction expresses fears that reproductive technology invites discrimination among human beings, weakened protection for vulnerable people, and eugenic schemes to fashion a more desirable super-race...
...complaint saying she had been gang-raped by a football player she once dated and three of his teammates. The case was dropped, partly because the victim had been drinking. Said Detective Greg Folster of the University of California, Berkeley, police: "I have no doubt that this was a sexual assault, but I don't think the judicial system is quite ready for acquaintance rape...