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...chess victory contrasted with the defeat of Harvard football, but the Harvard chess win would have been significant regardless, Benjamin said...
...think that the outcome of the chess match and other competitions between Harvard-Yale are significant regardless of the outcome of the football game," he said...
...regardless of whether doctors prefer to perform abortions, a procedural knowledge should be part of any doctor's repertoire. After all, as older doctors explain in the article, safe abortions can prevent women from taking desperate measures, such as illegal and dangerous abortions. Knowledge of life-saving techniques is a doctor's job. Though each doctor will personally decide what to specialize in and whether to perform abortions, it should be expected that in a pinch they can perform most common surgical procedures...
...They are, after all, at medical school because they want to be doctors. There seems to be no procedure comparable to abortion, a technique students are strongly morally averse to. Setting broken bones, hysterectomies, removing malignant moles--on what grounds would anyone be interested in avoiding learning these topics? Regardless of medical students' personal beliefs, a medical school is obligated to teach medical procedures. Even if the medical school's official policy legitimizes all concerns about any courses, it is hard to think of anything besides abortion that a student could be exempted from out of respect for their beliefs...
...Regardless of where one stands on the question of rights, restoring ex-offenders' votes will have few practical disadvantages. Most opposition to such a repeal stems from an irrational fear that once given access to the ballot box, ex-offenders will oppose all criminal laws and vote "the wrong way." Even more irrational is the fear that this disenfranchised 2 percent of the population will overpower the political will of the more trustworthy 98 percent. Although the effect of these laws on the voting power of minorities may be significant, as a whole their repeal would do little to sway...