Ethics
NEWS FEATURE: Reclusive Ohio doctor’s procedure is a focus in the abortion debate
c. 1997 Religion Service
DAYTON, Ohio _ Dr. Martin Haskell, owner of the Women's Med+ Center in the Dayton suburb of Kettering, is a reclusive abortion doctor _ he hasn't spoken to reporters in years and remains a mystery even in the abortion rights community. But in the public deba...
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NEWS STORY:
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ With an anxious but by no means unified religious community standing in the wings, the Supreme Court Wednesday (Jan. 8) heard arguments on whether laws barring doctor-assisted suicide are legal, setting the stage for a possible landmark rul...
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NEWS FEATURE: In the giving game, the rich give but the poor come out losers
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Wealthy Americans tend to give to wealthy institutions, most often the college that upped their earning potential and the hospital keeping them healthy. They don't give much to the poor.
It's their business where they decide to give their...
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NEWS STORY: Abortion opponents call for quick action on late-term procedure ban
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Tens of thousands of abortion opponents gathered Wednesday (Jan. 22) in the shadow of the White House to condemn President Clinton's veto of a ban on a controversial abortion procedure and to urge its quick congressional reconsideration.
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COMMENTARY: Why Clinton should veto the"partial-birth"abortion ban
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(The Rev. Herbert D. Valentine is executive presbyter of the Presbytery of Baltimore and served as moderator of the 203rd (1991) General Assembly of Presbyterian Church (USA).)
UNDATED _ The Senate is on the verge of giving final approval to a law out...
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NEWS STORY: Abortion opponents and supporters denounce Atlanta bombing
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Although federal investigators have not ruled out the possibility that two explosions Thursday (Jan. 16) at a suburban Atlanta building that houses an abortion clinic were acts of"domestic terrorism unrelated to clinic violence,"religious g...
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NEWS FEATURE: Starving kids images raise money _ and ethical questions
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED It's a holiday season standard. An emaciated little girl in a tattered dress stares into the camera, and TV viewers are told they can either spend a few dollars a month to feed her or think of her on Christmas crying herself to sleep.
American...
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COMMENTARY: Revisionist, historical Thanksgiving: both overdrawn and exaggerated
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Poor Thanksgiving. Even this beloved and most American of holidays is currently a battleground between"politically correct"historical revisionist...
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BACKGROUNDER: WEIGHING THE RIGHT TO DIE: How will the Supreme Court rule?
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The ``right-to-die'' question to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday (Jan. 8) is not whether Oregon can permit doctor-assisted suicide, but whether Washington, New York and other states can continue to ban the practice.
The...
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BACKGROUNDER: WEIGHING THE RIGHT TO DIE: Supreme Court to consider new definition of personal freedo
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ For most of human history in the West, a life was not one's own. A human being belonged to king or country and, above all, to God.
On Wednesday (Jan. 8), the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a challenge to that notion, as it hears arguments...
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