Laws have recently been relaxed regarding marijuana use, nudity, euthanasia, gay rights and abortion. Prostitution, on the other hand, has lagged behind in changes of societal attitudes. It is argued here that legalization of private prostitution is justified based on five broad rationales: 1) it...
A baby is not just an item that you should be able to throw away. Pro-choicers also use the term “mother” for pregnant women, when they are advocating for “life of the mother” or “health of the mother” exceptions to restrictions on abortion. When they refer to pregnant women as...
Mexico City legalized abortion in 2007 and Despite the law’s restriction to abortion services within the capital city’s limits, scholars estimate that this law decreased the entire nation of Mexico’s maternal deaths between 2007 and 2011 by 8.8% (Clarke and Mühlrad 2016). These regional ...
But with the Republican-dominated Legislature critical of the initiative, there could be a lengthy legislative battle over amendments. That would likely delay implementation and potentially give rise to a stubborn illicit market. Abortion rights backers extend post-Dobbs winning streak in Ohio ...
Over the past few years I have been made to see, in sum, that the nature and extent of satire is not nearly as simple a question as I had previously imagined. I am now prepared to agree that some varieties of expression that may have some claim to being satire should indeed be prohib...
yet Republicans are pushing ahead with the confirmation even thoughmost Americans think they should wait; Trump and two Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee havetested positive for COVID-19, throwing the whole timeline into jeopardy; and Barrett, if confirmed, would replace a justice who ...
In France, a Neuwirth-promoted law legalized the contraceptive pill (1967), then came the challenge to the authority of the father as head of the household (1970), then divorce by mutual consent (1974) and the “right” to abortion promoted by “Holocaust survivor” Simone Veil (1975). ...
And, one could effectively argue that the chief coup against faith-driven ethics would be… 9) …Legalized Abortion. Yes, this is another factor you often see associated with a right-leaning socio-political agenda. Fair enough. But at a certain twisted level of logic, if a culture is enthu...
a child. A baby is not just an item that you should be able to throw away.Pro-choicers also use the term “mother” for pregnant women, when they are advocating for “life of the mother” or“health of the mother” exceptions to restrictions on abortion. When they refer to pregnant ...
It is Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand. Make something illegal and you increase the price and demand attracting more people to the opportunity to make big bucks tax-free. The same can be said about abortion. All the hype on that subject the takes place as if some law will eradicate the pract...