Also found in: Dictionary, Encyclopedia. Civil Rights Personal liberties that belong to an individual, owing to his or her status as a citizen or resident of a particular country or community. The most common legal application of the term civil rights involves the rights guaranteed to U.S. ...
And as one of the most conspicuous leaders of the Christian Right, DeLay certainly understood that abortion--particularly forced abortion--is an abomination. Slave labor: made in the U.S.A.: under the influence of disgraced super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, former House Majority Whip Tom DeLay ...
Among the many, questions were posed concerning the accessibility and delivery of abortion services, the legitimacy of unnecessary and burdensome conditions on abortion providers, doctors' conscientious objection, as well as many other measures aimed at restricting access or availability of abortion ...
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Legal Norm Injection Points in Indiana and Norwaying that the issue of “social” and “humanitarian” indications for the termination of a pregnancy was a matter of debate, Berner noted that a number of “ethical, esteemed people have suggested reforms along this line”, allowing abortion, and...
Since the re-imposition of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, 28 foreign nationals have been executed from around the world, including foreign nationals from the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Cuba, Paraguay, Honduras, Vietnam, Thailand, Germany, Philippines, Canada, South Africa, Iraq...
With its decision inDobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization(2022), the Supreme Court overruled five decades of precedent guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion, on the basis that such right was not supported by “history and tradition.” The Court has utilized this same rationale ...