While I laud Georgetown University President John DeGioia’s recent call to civility in light of rabid right-wing attacks on a Georgetown law student, we must not forget how uncivil the Catholic anti-contraception position is. In some parts of the world, it continues to cause more human suffering than any words Rush Limbaugh could utter. As someone who deeply values Jesus' moral message, I believe this anti-contraception belief has no foundation in scripture. It is not moral. It is not civil. I have accompanied physicians to religiously-based clinics in Africa where mothers receive HIV retrovirals, but not birth control pills. In that chauvinistic society, she couldn’t say no to sex, nor could she say yes to condoms. She thereby couldn’t say no to passing HIV on to her children.
nanowires, which are made from abundant natural materials like silicon and zinc oxide, also offer a cheap way to deliver hydrogen fuel on a mass scale.
Cycling use has decreased by 51% since lid-wearing was made compulsory. the injury rate for cyclists per hour travelled has risen by over 20%. The case against compulsory helmeting, on all counts from health to aesthetics, is now stronger than the case for criminalising non-wearers.
Where a reasonable doubt exists about any product providing a net benefit then the consumer should have the right not to use it. It is simply, but importantly, respecting human rights by allowing the individual to decide. Insufficient respect for human rights is shown across the world and unless the individual is allowed to exercise their rights then this opens the way for devaluing human rights in general
the conservatives who oppose reform and progress have used the same kinds of arguments over and over again.There have been (sick) jokes about how Greece should sell off some of their Aegean islands to German (and Wall Street) banksters to end the financial crisis the banksters have helped get them into. Ha-ha. Stearns says we should sell off some of our national parks to the same people.
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