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- 401: Death Penalty
- By: Luke Wright E-mail: adamz22@aol.com Luke Wright 3/16/00 There has been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but capital punishment has been one of the most hotly contested issues in recent decades. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons ...
- 402: Euthanasia
- ... caring for dying patients, and letting terminally ill persons die. Early Christians opposed self-induced death out of suffering and despair. They also condemn such practices such as infanticide and abortion (556). Roman Catholics permit terminally ill patients to die by forgoing life-sustaining measures. Catholics also allow the refusing “forms of treatment that would secure a precarious and burdensome prolongation ...
- 403: Human Rights In China
- ... do not permit independent domestic nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in order to monitor public human rights conditions. Discrimination and violence against women, including coercive family planning practices, which sometimes include forced abortion and forced sterilization is a major problem, as well as prostitution, trafficking of women and children, abuse of children, and discrimination against the disabled and minorities (Amnesty International. "China, no ...
- 404: John McCain
- ... and illicit drug sales are the five most important problems facing America today ("General Population"). Meanwhile, candidates spend the majority of time discussing issues such as Social Security, taxes and abortion, which are not of as much concern to young voters. John McCain has actively sought out 18-24 year olds, the group collectively known as "Generation Y." The Arizona Senator ...
- 405: Communism East Europe
- ... media to promote stable family life. (32) Propaganda was used to coerce the people into believing in the positive virtues of marriage and children. Divorce was made more difficult and abortion was prohibited. Thus the peopleÆs right to choose and exert control over their own personal and familial decisions was removed. In schools, the teaching of the social sciences was curtailed ...
- 406: Argument Against Euthanasia
- ... not to destroy or injure human life directly, especially the life of the innocent and invulnerable. It has been reasoned that the protection of innocent life- and therefore, opposition to abortion, murder, suicide, and euthanasia- pertains to the common good of society. Among the potential effects of a legalised practice of euthanasia are the following: "Reduced pressure to improve curative or ...
- 407: Assisted Suicide
- ... have a constitutional right to physician assisted suicide, demonstrators sang and picketed outside a Supreme Court building.12 The emotions of the rights issue has been compared to that of abortion. Both of these issues dig into whether we have the right to choose such personal issues. People can feel very strongly about the issues of mercy killing, whether they oppose ...
- 408: American Violence
- ... them into the country. From 1920 until the amendment was repealed in 1933, something that had been legal in most parts of the United States had become a crime. Also, abortion, which had long been a crime in the United States, was decriminalized in 1971. Two years later, in the landmark decision Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court reaffirmed this situation ...
- 409: Suicide The Right To Die
- ... to be performed. This also erodes the privacy of the provider/patient relationship, exposing both to criticism and attacks on personal safety similar to those involved in the acts of abortion. Arguments against Assisted Suicide Legalization begins a process that will inevitably lead to involuntary, active euthanasia of patients who may or may not be terminally ill. Legalization will subject the ...
- 410: Teenage Pregnancy
- ... Europe that distribute contraceptives to teenagers have the same sexual activity rate as in the United States. However, in these European studies, it is apparent that teen pregnancy, childbirth, and abortion rates are much lower. (Berk 190) Teenage pregnancy does cause many problems for the mother, child, and economy. There are, however, some incidences where the mother overcomes this down-hill ...
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