Abortion is an issue as many people have diverse views about what they believe is right or wrong, for example the Catholic moral teachings forbid abortions, this challenges others which leads to conflict. ... People's attitudes towards abortion are formed based on many things but it is especially influenced on how they were raised and their religion. ... Abortion has always been a debatable issue in New Zealand, in 1977 The Contraception, Sterilization and Abortion Act was passed however it is still a contemporary ethical issue as the 'Right to Life' launched a court case again...

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Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private military and security companies" (PMSC), in the course of the past 20 years, have increasingly taken over the traditional activities carried out by mercenaries before1. ... The outsourcing of a number of basic functions which traditionally were carried out by national armies or police forces, known as the top-down privatization, has blurred the borderlines between the public services of the State and the private commercial sector. ... It is interesting to note that in the resolution8 creating the the Working Group on the U...

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Worst of all, it would condemn victims o append incest to carry and nurture the offspring of their rapist. ... Women should not be forced to have babies they don't want. ... They feel sadness, wishing things could have been different and grief for a lost life. Guilt arises because they know a fetus represents an independent life. ... Yes, some women may look at having an abortion to solve her personal problems, but in all, women are abandoning the abortion because it weakens their great strengths: creation, compassion and the ability to loose beneath the surface of appearance of thing...

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How women behave, their roles in society, their roles in a marriage, what types of freedom they have, how they spend their time, the education they receive, and many other things have been debated for hundreds of years. ... The common characteristics of what was expected of a woman hundreds of years ago was someone who acted as if they had no cares, uneducated, dependent, and only cared for the petty things of life. ... This was the way things functioned and operated and women were supposed to accept it and be content. ... A chance for women to develop their minds with education and expand th...

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Infants don't have a decision on whether they should live or be aborted in their mother's womb. ... They would have the capacity to live. ... He has a plan for each child before they are even born. ... "Neither will ever convince the other, since no logic will move them from where they are" (Reltso). ... This would allow couples to adopt babies if they can't have children of their own. ...

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The term "cruel and unusual" was not defined at the time the Amendment was passed, but it was noted by the Supreme Court in 1848 that such punishments would include "drawing and quartering, emboweling alive, beheading, public dissecting, and burning alive," among other things. ... They also have a right of access to the courts to air these complaints. ... Inmates are entitled to a hearing if they are to be moved to a mental health facility. ... Once the inmate receives three "strikes," they can no longer file another lawsuit unless they pay the entire court filing fee up front. ... Prisoners c...

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Among other things, he seems to have been dragging his feet about helping the U.S. in the contra war. ... They too came to hate Noriega, not least because he was responsible for the economic warfare that was causing their children to starve. ... In fact, there's one CIA-trained battalion in Honduras that all by it had carried out more atrocities than Noriega did. ... Could they have some sort of conscious? Did they somehow know that weapons of mass destruction didn't exist? ...

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(Clouser pp 385) The advice of the expert, the medical doctor, and the ethicists have a synergistic effect on the moral agent; they allow the agent to make a desision.that is informed and ethical. ... Ayre does not believe that their exists only one moral stand-point which is superior to all others. "...In the end, it is a matter of finding principles which one is prepared to stand by and when they conflict... of giving more weight to one or the another acco! ... One may be able to show that their principles are based on factual assumptions which are false, or that they are the product of bad...

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I doubt not but this will seem a very strange doctrine to some men; but before they condemn it, I desire them to resolve me by what right any prince or state can put to death or punish an alien for any crime he commits in their country? It is certain their laws, by virtue of any sanction they receive from the promulgated will of the legislature, reach not a stranger. They speak not to him, nor, if they did, is he bound to hearken to them. The legislative authority by which they are in force over the subjects of that commonwealth hath no power over him. ... The damnified person has this power o...

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The thought process that motivated this congregation involved worries about the coal and steel industries between France and Germany; the European community was concerned that the economic control of these industries could potentially start another armed conflict, something that they all wished to avoid at all costs. ... To enact the ambitious goals of repairing the social and economic progress of the European region, the European Union has the Economic and Social Committee that was founded to monitor agriculture, rural development, the environment, employment, social affairs, and citizenship ...

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Children may want to continue to carry out their family legacy or perhaps join the military out of patriotism and even to experience something new. ... Francisco, a 17-year-old, explained, "I didn't want to join the Army, they made me join.". ... Women were obligated to comply with soldiers' commands during wartime if they wanted to survive. ... Most of these victims were threatened with death if they resisted or failed to oblige (p.4). ... They no longer only controlled household duties but also adapted to working as well. ...

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