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- 221: Ethics and Advertising
- ... advertising activities and keep them ethical. To this end, they have practices and procedures for evaluating ads before accepting them for broadcasting or publication. Years ago, many newspapers prohibited ads for alcoholic beverages, patented medicines, abortion clinics, and tobacco products. Currently, some newspapers and magazines prohibit ads for guns, X-rated films, “gentlemen’s clubs”, products made from or tested on animals, and controversial political or social organizations in the vein of the Ku Klux Klan or Neo-Nazi groups. Some media reject ads for foods and beauty products containing ingredients considered unhealthy, abortion clinics or pro-life counselors, term paper consultants, and so on. Television broadcasters are required by the government to reject tobacco ads and restrict ads on Saturday morning children’s programs. Other ads are scrutinized ...
- 222: Pornography and the New Puritans
- ... looks like blacklisting to me.” He believes that feminist group are under fascism, which is banning something you don’t like and can’t control. He compares the situation of pornography to the situation of abortion. In the article feminist group are compared to the Right to Life people. The feminist group believes that attitudes toward child molestation and rape can be changed if the offensive ideas are removed. The Right to Life people believe that attitudes toward woman having sex, getting pregnant, and not wanting the child can be changed by removing the offensive ideas- abortion. Irving tells us that in both groups, ideology is being banned therefor, they are blacklisting. Then he compares the feminist group to the old puritans. He shows the short story “Endicott and the Red Cross ...
- 223: Charles Canady
- ... provisions to strengthen the criminal justice system. One article of legislation proposed discourages court prison population caps that, and would help keep prisoners behind bars. Charles Canady was the House sponsor of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. This bill would prohibit abortions in which a baby is partially delivered before being killed. More than 70% of the U.S. supports the ban and the House and Senate passed the legislation ... but President Clinton vetoed the bill. The House overrode Clinton's veto, but the Senate did not get the 2/3 s majority needed to override the veto. Rep. Canady has reintroduced the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in Congress where a solid veto-proof majority in the House passed it. The Senate passed a slightly different version of the bill. The bill was sent to President Clinton who vetoed it ...
- 224: Cloning
- ... wrote an article based on religion and cloning explaining that all creatures come from God with their own certain uniqueness about them He points out the fact the cloning issue somehow parallels the issue of abortion and whether or not it is morally right. Religion is the root of many peoples' values and their beliefs about things such as cloning and abortion lie behind these. Richard McCormick basically summarizes the statement that society is already pretty messed up and with the idea of cloning in perspective, we need to beware as the future approaches. Clearly, the public ...
- 225: Comparison of Margaret Mead's "Coming in Age" to Russian Youth
- ... relations. Often this psychology backfires and many teenagers start sex without their parents knowledge. Their inexperience often leads to pregnancies which are terminated by abortions. In fact, the Soviet Union has one of the highest abortion rates. Although abortions have been legal since 1955, the State clinics are intimidating. No one talks to the patient, she is one of a faceless stream and often she gets no anaesthetic. There is a lack of confidentiality as it is impossible to have an abortion without one's employer knowing. "It is possible that the cruelty of the System is intended to teach women a lesson". Hundreds of thousands of women have pregnancies terminated elsewhere (Wilson, 1988, 201). This system ...
- 226: Historians
- ... have been discovered. Which have been influenced by other fields of knowledge such as psychohistory, psychology, demography, sociology, ethnohistory and etc.. History as a whole will help me in understanding the very controversial subject of abortion that I am contemplating in doing as my graduating project. Abortion seems to be a never ending battle in society. Since the very creation of it, people have taken opposition or supported it. This article helps me understand my job in covering this subject and how ...
- 227: Creative Writing: X-Men
- ... Professor Charles Xavier, the world's strongest telepath, “sworn to protect a world that fears and hates them.” The X-Men comics are not just about prejudice either. They tackle many social issues, such as abortion and AIDS. The original team of X-Men consisted of five teen-agers and Xavier (Professor X). These were not as popular as other titles of the times such as Superman, Batman, Spiderman, The Fantastic ... near an infected person. That is how people see the Legacy Virus: get near a mutant and you'll catch that non-curable disease they all have. Another issue the mighty mutants have confronted is abortion. Is it right to prevent a life if it is known that the baby will have what is essentially a birth defect? In one storyline in X-Factor a doctor discovers a way to tell ...
- 228: Social Norms Are Constantly Changing
- ... it. Teenage pregnancy was very rare in the beginning of this century. When the same elderly gentleman was asked what happened when a girl got pregnant, he said she got married as soon as possible. Abortion was unheard of. In the seventies, Roe vs. Wade drastically changed the way teenage pregnancy was handled. Today, a girl can get an abortion and people rarely say anything about it. As I said earlier, social norms are constantly changing. What is today viewed as shocking or controversial will in ten or twenty years probably be commonplace. Perhaps in ...
- 229: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... of tax rates, removed millions of low-income persons from the tax rolls, and eliminated most deductions. One focus of the administration from the beginning was an agenda of social issues ranging from opposition to abortion to support for mandatory prayer in the public schools. The executive branch adopted much of the social agenda of the conservative fundamentalist supporters of the president, but Reagan had little success in gaining its acceptance ... amid high expectations for fundamental policy change. Early in his administration he reversed a number of Republican policies. He ended the federal prohibition on the use of fetal tissue for medical research, repealed rules restricting abortion counseling in federally funded health clinics, and used his appointment power to fulfill a promise to place many women and minorities in prominent government positions. The failure to enact comprehensive health-care reform proved to ...
- 230: Margaret Sanger
- ... no advice for Sophie and the next time she was called to the Sachs' apartment, just a few moths later, it was already too late; Sophie was dead from the effects of another self-induced abortion. Margaret simply could not keep still any longer; she resolved to do whatever she could to help the countless women who were left to the mercy of husbands and doctors (Sanger 88-92) On Sunday ... though, she needed information. For months, Margaret read through the dusty books and medical journals available in public libraries for information on contraceptives. Most of the information she found was no better than tips on abortion and infanticide, until she came across a pamphlet written in 1832 by a doctor from Massachusetts. The doctor believed that too many pregnancies could be detrimental to a woman's health and outlined the known ...
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