Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...measuring the value of life on a sliding scale. Once a society agrees that at some stage a life is no longer worth sustaining, patients are suddenly vulnerable. "We would begin with competent people making their own choice," warns Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center and an authority on ethical issues in medicine, "but we would be too easily led into involuntary euthanasia -- either manipulating people into asking for suicide or actually doing it to them without their permission because they have become too burdensome or costly." The haunting precedent, of course, is the Nazi Holocaust, during which...
...administrative policy of the U.S. military states that being gay is incompatible with military service. An executive order from the President or an act of Congress could overturn the policy, San Francisco author Allan R. Berube said yesterday...
SOME articles in Peninsula attempt rational defenses of their moral disapproval. One piece goes to great lengths to argue that homosexuality and contraception are immoral because they are "inescapably unnatural." Abortion, the author argues, is "an act contrary to nature in its most basic sense...
...naturalist fallacy in this argument is easy to discern. By the author's moral criteria, taking a dose of penicillin to cure strep throat is a profoundly immoral...
Thus, one piece does nothing but portray a stark, future utopia at Harvard in which a perverse sexual morality reigns and heterosexuals are executed for their failure to "experiment with an alternative lifestyle." The author doesn't recognize the irony that the improbable, intolerant nightmare she envisages--one for which no liberal would ever wish--is merely a mirror image of the more conventional sexual morality that she evidently sincerely wishes to impose on everyone...