Effect on Family life : Although all these authors uses their definitions of marriage to support their views on gay marriage, some like Charles Colson or Charlene Gomes are more concerned about the social implication such as effect of legalization of gay marriage on family life. ... She accepts that marriage is an important social institution and it fosters the recognizable family structure. ... For some people, the need to preserve family is the most important element of the gay marriage controversy, for others, the issue most importantly centers on Christian belief and some of them uses bi...

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The widespread abuse of human rights has also become a domestic and international issue, after years in which the military-dominated governments repressed any opposition and massacred entire villages to discourage support for guerrillas (Vassileva). ... The people of the country have a freedom of choice and even though the power struggle still continues, the people of the country have stayed and supported the growth of democracy. ...

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Should they steal from the lorry to feed their family, but in so doing break one of the commandments. ... • To enable patients and families to face up to death. ... A hospice offers care to both the patient and their family at the most difficult stages in their lives. ... It is not a private act; the person committing euthanasia has the support of their friends and family. ... For people such as this and also for people in PVS, (persistent vegetative state), I believe that their lawyers or close family should have the choice and the trust to let them live a medically supported life or ...

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For example, according to James Rachels, the most common argument in support of euthanasia is one that we may call "the argument from mercy". ... Euthanasia is also supported by many religious groups. ... It believes that discretion should remain in the hands of attending physicians, family members, and patients themselves, whose wishes on the matter have been documented. ... We think to ourselves, " she and the family would be better off if she were dead." ... It would be useful, I think, and for the benefit of argument, to withhold nutritional life support from the terminally ill. ...

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The death penalty doesn't support justice, it degrades and brutalises it. ... Supporters also argue that as tax payers, why should we bear the cost of supporting such a criminal for a lifetime? ... How about explaining that to the innocent peoples" families, explain to the families that it was alright for their beloved to be wrongly executed. ... But there is no evidence that supports this argument, in fact the evidence is to the contrary. This is supported by the statistics that show no unusual rise in murders in those countries that don't allow the death penalty than those that do....

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Being Cuban American, I actually have tremendous interest in the area of human rights; particularly dealing with the Caribbean Island that has many issues dealing with human rights concerns and it's the country that my family drives from. I'll examine and analyze, the N.G.Os approach on human rights in Cuba by establishing four pillars of support to answer my research question. ... The Human Rights Watch was first designed in 1978 as a support organization for citizens of the Soviet Union. ... The government relied on arbitrary arrests and short-term detentions to restrict the basic...

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Helps people with mental illness not be cast into devalued roles, leading to lives isolated from the community with few social supports and allies. ... It is just one of many helpful support groups who feature in providing much needed assistance to the mentally ill. Advocacy groups, along with other support groups, play an important role in supplying transport for the mentally ill and other services involving transport. ... An unemployed person can find it hard to fit into society as they can feel as if they are not worthy and can't support themselves. ... Council could assist in th...

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The governments, religions and cultures of this country support the inequalities, thus allowing vicious crimes against women to continue without any recourse by the victims. ... Yearly, girls and women of Palestine are either threatened to death or killed for ruining the family "honour". ... If women and girls don't "honour," principally connected to the word behavior, their families and behave how Palestinian society perceives them, then their relevant male (father, brother, husband, uncle, etc.) has the right to "discipline" them in order to "restore" family honor. ... Their cultural va...

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She found a family that is willing to adopt Deo. ... With the Wolfs' support, he was able to go to school. ... Nancy and Charlie supported Deo without seeking anything in return. This kind of support, people like the Wolfs give, makes the life of some people like Deo more sustainable. ... In Burundi, he was starving, and he and his family were living in "wooden buildings with thatched roofs" (35). ...

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Muslim women have no financial responsibilities at all; all the financial responsibilities of the family are the husbands" responsibility. ... "Men are protectors and maintainers of women because Allah has made one of them to excel the other, and because they spend to support them from their means" (Qur"an 4:34). ... The meaning is that women inherit as well, even though men may inherit more if he is financially responsible for female relatives of his family. ... This does not imply that men rule or dictate over women, but means that they are the decision makers in the marriage and family. ...

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Implementing a right to access legal abortion services in Northern Ireland will end thirty years of the most blatant discrimination against a section of the United Kingdom community, and will reflect the public will of the people of Northern Ireland, who have consistently supported legal abortion. ... As a result of that, the Attorney General of Ireland sought an injunction restraining her and her family from leaving the country, or if they had being able to return, so that she could not proceed with her termination of pregnancy. Ultimately from the support of the Irish people the suicidal tee...

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Strong arguments can be made in support of both pro-life, and pro-choice viewpoints. ... Many diverse arguments can be made in support of the pro-choice viewpoint. ... Essentially, it is immoral for the government to decide to force a young mother, or less fortunate family into a cycle of poverty. ... This is not the case, financial stability is rough to achieve in today's society, and a new addition to the family creates another burden for parents. ...

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The basic human needs fulfilled by groups like family, industry and the nation-state are those of survival. The most animalistic of these needs are fulfilled by the family: food, shelter, reproduction, and protection. ... These particular functions of community are most often met by gender, family, ethnicity, and religion. ... As I have outlined, each type of community (religion, family, race, nation, etc.) presents dangerous consequences that have vastly different origins and, as a result, vastly different remedies. ... In response to Huntington's statement about Muslim ethnocentrism...

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There have been reports of family members or close friends of terminal patients committing murder and murder suicides against their dying loved one because of their desperation to relieve them. ... Family members may sign papers agreeing with the decision or doctors may limit the procedure to certain illnesses. ... Those who do not support assisted suicide claim that doctors will be prompted to press the death wish on patients for the use of their organs. Doctors can overlook a factor in a savable person hoping for the usable organs; they may also encourage families to impose assisted suicide ...

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One of the reasons why we feel that Howard Dean should be our next president, and the reason we are asking you for financial support of his campaign, is that Howard Dean's economic policy is proposing a two-year $ 100 billion "Fund to Restore America-. ... The Fund includes financial support of disadvantaged and minority groups. ... He believes it's time to stop talking and take action to help the workers and the families who are feeling the impact the hardest. ... He divides us by sexual orientation by "supporting senators who have slandered gay Americans-. ... Some of the princip...

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There is much supporting economic evidence against the death penalty. However, there is matching evidence to support it. ... We all knew he came from a screwed up family, but nothing on the surface ever said just how bad it was. His mother abandoned the family. ... Some people that support the death penalty say there is justification for it in the bible. ...

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Evidently, due to this, women are revolting and supporting self- expression. ... Despite having a 91 % literacy rate in Saudi Arabia, woman segregation in the country has resulted in lesser woman earning money and supporting their families. ... When a woman's identity is at a risk, it is the duty of men to uphold and support her. ...

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Advocates of giving women the choice to have an abortion (pro-Choice) and advocates of denying women the right to choose (pro-Life) are both passionate about their arguments and have received support from a variety of secular, religious, and federal groups. ... (NYU research group, The Abortion Debate, www.nyu.edu,10 February 2006) Various civil liberties (pro-choice) and family planning activists (pro-life) began to form and raise awareness on the issue. ... Groups such and National Right to Life (NRL) and Prolife America sprung up to support the debate from the other side, the pro-life side ...

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Most women base their decision on several factors, the most common being lack of money and/or unreadiness to start or expand their families due to existing responsibilities. ... Women at risk for poor post-abortion adjustment are those who do not get the support they need, or whose abortion decisions are actively opposed by people who are important to them. ... Family Planning Perspectives, 1987; Forrest, J.D). ... And, instead of vilifying them, give them the support they deserve. ...

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Section seven stated "The state has a strong interest in promoting stable and lasting families, including families based upon same sex couples. " In the following section the legislators said, "without the legal protections, benefits and responsibilities associated with civil marriage, same sex couples suffer numerous obstacles and hardships ." ... In the 2000 election season five supporters of the bill lost their positions and the main reason that has been accredited to this was their support of the same sex civil union bill. ... While there were many opposed to Vermont's law there were ...

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If you have any love of life, then you should always support the lives of others. ... Family members and the fathers, in particular, are also greatly affected. ... It can then be said that the woman has no right to call on her partner for support, and that both parents have the mutual right to abandon their responsibilities. ... Most of the rest of the children would be adopted by their extended family or by noble strangers. ...

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A man supports his family with a job that he has been working at for the past 20 years and has been paying unemployment insurance since he started. ... When he loses employment, he will at least have the time to find a position with security and the financial attributes that is most fitting to him and his family, rather then applying for the first employment opportunity he sees because there has been no source of income coming into the household. ... There aren't many more stressful predicaments in a family then losing a job. ...

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It had fifty one percent of voters supporting it and forty nine percent opposing. ... It is not fair that Brittany had to uproot her family and move just to stop her suffering which is why I think it should be legalized in Pennsylvania. ... People who are depressed may only request euthanasia because a doctor or family members have told them they should could result. ... I would want my family member to have every option possible and whether or not they take the assisted suicide route is their choice. Wouldn't you want your family member or a loved one to do what they think is the right...

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Single mothers who are usually responsible for supporting them head Twenty-three percent of all families. In 1993, 54.1 percent of these families made less than $15,000 a year; 19 percent made less than $5,000. ... Much of the earnings gap is the result of occupational differences, gender segregation, and women's tendency to interrupt their employment for family reasons and to take jobs that do not interfere extensively with their family lives. ...

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The first major theme of fate is what had gotten the family of Oedipus where they were when the play began. ... Antigone's ultimate fate was to die trying to honor her dead brother and show loyalty what is most important to her, her family. ... This just shows how terrible fate has treated the family of Oedipus. ... Antigone's opinion is one that supports the gods and the laws of the heavens. ... Creon is too loyal to his beliefs that laws are necessary to retain order even if it means going against ones family. ...

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