Word: supporting
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Proceeds from the campaign will help fund faculty salaries, student financial aid, educational programs like the Core Curriculum, building renovations, and other undergraduate activities. Faculty officials stress that most of the money will support College activities, and that the campaign will not fund many new programs but rather protect existing ones from inflation...
...could answer with one word the role of women at the 1980 Republican convention," she said. "But then we can always look for possibilities," she added. Ruckleshaus termed presidential candidate John B. Anderson Jr. (R. Ill.) "particularly supportive" of women's causes. She cited Anderson's support of the Equal Rights Amendment, of abortion rights, and family planning as reasons for support...
...center and council will try to increase the opposition to nuclear power, Smith says, by supporting anti-nuclear legislation, distributing information to their member churches and seeking the support of scientists opposed to nuclear energy...
...trite axiom: it avows some faith in the quality of existence beyond the moral injunction "Thou shalt not kill." It becomes easy to see as hypocritical those anti-abortionists--particularly men--who condone extra-marital intercourse (or even intramarital intercourse) yet would refuse to financially and emotionally support the child conceived because of faulty contraception. The only morally consistent value-of-life position is to have intercourse only if one is willing to accept a child as a possible consequence, and participate in the quality of the child's life. This in part lies behind the Catholic prohibition of premarital...
...personal doctrine few would reproach those who follow it. But pragmatics belie its application to all society, rape being the prime instance where the woman is not free to choose to become pregnant. The restriction of federal support to cases of rape, incest and probable death of the mother suggests an interesting quality-of-life argument: that potentiality is not absolute but must be prorated. Due to society's dread of incest, such a mother and her child would be spared a psychologically unbearable life. In case of danger to the mother's life we do not hear that...