Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...woman to kill a child." A fairer statement would be that the Governor did not see how he could legally deny a woman what the nation's highest court has decreed to be her right. Second, the bishops have acted as if it were universally accepted that human life from the moment of conception is a person requiring legal protection. But that is a moral judgment, not scientific fact, disputed even by religious leaders who no more favor murder than do the Catholic bishops...
...probably played a part in decolonization. It had a serious role in fighting fascism. But in human society, it was completely negative...
...tokens of a return to "normality," Beijing last month lifted martial law and released a few detainees. But has China had a change of heart? Not according to two human-rights reports circulated last week...
...page paper, Asia Watch, a New York City-based human-rights organization, called Beijing's justice system "essentially pre-modern." The government's crimes include the shooting of students who tried to spread word of the Beijing massacre, arrest without trial of 10,000 to 30,000 people, solitary confinement for detainees and torture by electric cattle prod. Says Asia Watch: "There is simply no rule of law in China worth mentioning...
...Asia Watch claims and listed still more abuses, such as raids on universities, loyalty tests and a "massive" disinformation campaign. Asked how the State Department report squared with the Administration's conciliatory approach to Beijing, a White House official said, "The President has often expressed his concern about human rights in China...