Word: argumentatively
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Backers of the amendment said they didn't buy the argument that it was undemocratic...
...Mattie J. Germer '03 and Erin L. Sheley '02 argue that abortion-rights activism should be eliminated from Take Back The Night week because "abortion is not an issue of gender-based violence." Germer and Sheley are correct that not all women at Harvard favor abortion rights, but their argument ignores the intimate connection between support for abortion rights and the ongoing battle against sexual violence...
...Crimson's staff editorial, "Eliminate the Abortion Refund" (Editorial, April 13) is a masterpiece of muddled thinking and deceptive rhetoric. The editors claim to recognize the "strong moral objections to abortion," but then proceed to the dubious argument that such objections must take a back seat to the decisions of the nebulous "experts" who allocate UHS funding. These experts are apparently infallible, since we are informed, without evidence, that their decisions cannot be subjected to an "external moral, political, or religious debate." For The Crimson, apparently, ethics have a place in the sweatshop debate, but must never be applied...
...most of those at the conference said this argument seems to make little sense...
...Fellini shows me an elevator at a university building in Boston. A crowd enters the elevator. One person mentions the Boy's name. By the time the elevator reaches the sixth floor, a sectarian argument of unexpected heat has erupted among these strangers...