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- 391: Abortion Should Be Kept Out of The Criminal Code
- ... miscarriage at their Toronto clinic. The Ontario government appealed the acquittal; the accused appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, which struck down the law in early 1988 on the basis that it conflicted with rights guaranteed in the Charter. 4 The Charter guaranteed a woman's right to the security of her person. The Court also found that this right was breached by the delays resulting from the therapeutic abortion ... of Commons approved (140-131) a new law that would put abortion back into the Criminal Code, allowing abortions only if a doctor determined that a woman's health was threatened by her pregnancy. The bill died in the Senate in Jan 1991. 5 In the case of Campbell v. Attorney-General of Ontario (1987) the allegations in the statement of claim that the effect of the stay was to deny s.7 and s,15 rights to unborn children aborted or about to be aborted support a reasonable cause of action. The law does not regard unborn children as independent legal entities prior to birth, so that it is only ...
- 392: Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton In recent history, one would be hard pressed to find one politician surrounded in more controversy than Bill Clinton. His scandals have included drugs, adultery, treason, and fraud. The latest opprobrium that has plagued his presidency resulted in him becoming only the second president in the history of the United States to be ... of state as a role model for their children. As a result of Clinton s actions, his every decision is questioned for fear that he is just covering us another lie. Can Americans rely on Bill Clinton to make the best choices for our country when we don t even trust him? Although what President Clinton did is not morally right I feel that it is important to look at ...
- 393: Gays: A Struggle for Acceptance
- ... gay liberation movement started in America, the land of the free, where all men are created equal and with an inalienable right to pursue their own happiness. No one should be able to take these rights away from anyone. Also, in the 1950s, the civil rights movement became active and words like desegregation and equal rights for all became synonymous with the American way of life. Stand up and fight against those who have done you wrong! This is what gave homosexuals such a conviction to start fighting for their ...
- 394: Civil Rights
- Civil Rights The 1960's were the great civil rights era, but what has happened since then? Have things improved, and if not who is to blame? The book The Aims of Argument gives us two authors with contrasting views on racism and discrimination today ... sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning." Dr. MLK was implying we have come a long way, but much improvement is still needed. Killian wants a society where not only are there equal rights to jobs, but also equal distribution of jobs. In his opinion everything looks great at first glance, but when you look harder you see the racism still going on. There are still segregated and ...
- 395: Bill Gates
- William (Bill) H. Gates III is co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading provider of software for personal computer. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Mary Gates, their late mother, was a schoolteacher, University ... of particular interest to Gates and his family. The focus of Gates' philanthropy is in four areas: education; world public health and population; non-profit, civic and arts organizations; and Puget Sound-area capital campaigns. Bill and Melinda French Gates were married on January 1, 1994. They have one child, Jennifer Katharine Gates, who was born in 1996. Gates is an avid reader, and enjoys playing golf and bridge.
- 396: The Closing of the American Revolution
- ... Revolution. The system of checks and balances and the division of powers previously proposed allowed the Federalists to argue their point. AntiFederalists retorted with a list of arguments, including the lack of representation for the rights of the majority, the doubts of a single government managing the affairs of a large country, the possible return to a monarchical society, and the lack of protection for individual rights. After all
the entire point of the revolution had been to gain individual rights and freedoms which were denied by the tyrannical monarchy of Britain. The Federalists proposed the Bill of Rights, which established a list of American rights, which were unalienable. This satisfied the AntiFederalists, who in ...
- 397: Animal Rights
- Animal Rights As Doctor Zola-Morgan stated in a speech to animal right activists, "I've seen the impact of the animal rights movement. I believe this is an attack on science of the worst kind. If we allow it to prevail it will take us back to the dark ages." Too much of the public has come ... is exploited. Although many people think that animal research is morally wrong, animal research should continue because it is critical to continued progress in human health and alternatives to research animals are not available. Animal rights activists feel that animal research is immoral. They do not see where we as human beings see or feel that we are the dominant species. They often assert that research with animals causes severe ...
- 398: The Use of The Second Amendment In The Home
- ... flag of public safety. Though there are many safety reasons why private ownership of firearms should be banned, these arguments are outweighed not only by the need for protection, but because the limitation of ownership rights could become dangerous to personal freedom. When the U.S. Constitution was written, some delegates thought Militia was military forces because the Federal Government had its own army to protect the people. The second amendment ... of a Militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty" (The Commission of the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, 26). On December 15, 1791, Virginia ratified the Bill of Rights, making it, with the second amendment, part of the constitution (The Commission for the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, 5). The Constitution does not guarantee gun ownership for just any reason. The second ...
- 399: Abortion: Abusive Parents
- ... or birth defects which sometimes leads to death. One thing's for sure, these children's lives are greatly complexed before they even reach the light of day. Which leads to my position that the rights of the child should be extended to the unborn. A mother should not have the right to use drugs or drink alcohol while she is pregnant, it is unfair for the child not to even ... to it. Take a child who has been born, then goes through the pain of having an abusive parent. If the parents are exposed to the authorities they will go to jail and lose the rights to the child, and with proper counseling and therapy the child will live a normal life. Yet, if the child is unborn, the mother can do whatever she would like, even if it means harming ... call someone for help, but an unborn child cannot speak and therefore needs someone to speak for it in case of any danger that might come to it. Our unborn children should have the same rights as any living person. In our society we give rights to any living creature, human or not human. Is it right that we give more rights to animals than we do our own unborn? ...
- 400: Martin Luther King
- ... me to settle for anything less than brotherhood, I beg God to forgive me." King also believed that all people should be treated with equality and fairness and this became the basis for the Civil Rights Movement of which King was the leader of. This fairness is one value that allowed Kings followers to have so much respect for him, for some, he was more than a man, "The young ... be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice." King wanted to see justice prevail and he and many of his follower felt that it did in the signing of the 1964 and 1968 Civil Rights Act. Blacks now had many rights that they were previously refused, they now had the right to vote, access public accommodations, and racial discrimination was prohibited in the sale or rental of housing. With this King was one step closer ...
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