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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line to draw," says Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics. Critics are worried that Holland has pointed the way to "assisted suicide on demand."Can one say no to a despairing Vietnam vet or rape victim?"If you're worried about the slippery slope, this case is as far down as you can get," warns George Annas, health-law professor at Boston University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing The Psychic Pain | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

CIVIL RIGHTS: A Summit's Slippery Slope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Contents Page | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

That means you'd have to believe that any socially liberal ideas (feminism, gay rights, abortion rights) zip right down the slippery slope to cultural relativism and the moral decay of Our Great Nation. You'd have to present yourself as a martyr for defending free speech and then use your well-deserved speech to spout only intolerance. You'd have to dismiss moderate conservatives as sissies, or as closet liberals. You'd have to vehemently deny that you were actually on the fringe...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: The Answers We've Been Waiting For | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

Further, censorship is inevitably a slippery slope; it is entirely dependent on an individual or group's determination of what has value, a judgment that may not reflect the speakers, much less that of society. But in Frank's United States, the government will apparently have free rein to determine what is "legitimate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank Misunderstands the Entire Point of the First Amendment | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...path to either of the only two possible endings for a story about alcoholism is, dramatically, entirely predictable. So when Alice Green's social drinking starts turning into antisocial behavior in When a Man Loves a Woman, you have an awful feeling that you've been down this slippery slope before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Familiar Slippery Slope | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

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