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...brought this issue into the news, revealing yet another facet of America's painful obsession with the definition of human life. Many advocates for children's welfare feel that a mother who would take drugs or act in other irresponsible ways during pregnancy has shown herself to be an unfit parent. Yet it is evident that prosecuting such women for child abuse would effectually decide the abortion question in favor of the "rights of the unborn," and possibly invade the woman's privacy as well...
...their position might be some thing like this: If the fetus is not called a person, some "children" will be sent home with negligent parents who cannot be prosecuted as abusers. But if it is called a person, many more children will be born to negligent parents who are unfit to raise them and would have had abortions if they were allowed. "The greatest good for the greatest number" is the only principle that enables one to put a bold face on the situation...
...into competitive sports. But in a nation with only 60 swimming pools, there are 10 elite diving schools. Students are supervised virtually nonstop, cut off from families unless relatives happen to live nearby, forbidden to date until their 20s and expected to train so hard that most wind up unfit for work outside athletics. Some are left virtually illiterate in a land where, by Confucian tradition, intellectual pursuits are prized over physical ones. In exchange, athletes (and often their families) enjoy better jobs and housing. They wear imported athletic clothing. If they make the 20-or-so-member national team...
...Concerned Christians contended that Gomes' argument that homosexuality was not a sin made him unfit to serve as minister of Memorial Church...
...busier than the 1.2 million miles of interstate and other major highways. And yet, despite the $28 billion spent each year on maintenance and construction, the Federal Highway Administration admits that 52% of these thoroughfares are in miserable condition. Some are rated "low fair," meaning rutted, cracked and sometimes "unfit for high-speed travel." Others are "poor," meaning they have excessive bumps, depressions and potholes that "provide an uncomfortable ride." Roads like this contribute to congestion and accidents, which the government says cost the country $120 billion a year -- and untold lives...