...Current Event #1 Churches in California Battle State Gov’t After Being Forces to Cover Elective Abortion California’s Department of Managed Health Care has made a new regulatory amendment. This new amendment requires all employer health plans in the state of California including churches and faith based organizations, to cover elective abortions. This new abortion policy had taken effect August 22nd. The California officials had decided that elective abortions had now fallen under basic health services in the state of California. The churches are now under no obligation to provide contraception, but not abortion. There have been attempts to stop California’s abortion mandate. Also, if the government takes no action to stop the abortion regulation a lawsuit may follow. This relates to class because abortion has been a big controversy and one of our main topics in class. Abortion is a big issue in many other states as well because many see it as “murder” while others see it as an opportunity. Some states are Pro-Life while others are Pro-Choice. Abortion has very much evolved in the 21st century as opposed to the 18th. The technology and procedure has become much more advanced. All in all, abortion has a very big impact on our nation. Its effects could cause an inner turmoil in the nation. For example the Roe Vs. Wade case has had a tremendous effect on abortion today. Abortion has become easier over time but it has also become a greater issue as well....
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...21st Century Skills: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving KEITH ARNETT GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY CWV 101 Professor Evans Abortion has been one of the biggest controversies in our nation. America legalized abortion in1973. Pro –choice Activist they believe that a woman should have the right to do what she wishes with her body, including to give birth or not to give birth. Pro-life supports believe that abortion is murder and is against Gods will. One question is when does life begin and when the fetus is consider having life, is it at conception, or is it after birth? According to (www.prolifeaction.org) Life begins with fertilization or conception as some people call it which occurs 8-10. After the egg and the sperm unite. There has been many heated discussion as to why abortion should/should not be legal. Back in the 1820s there where some laws that established that prohibited abortion after the first four months of pregnancy. And by the year 1900 abortion was altogether banned, because of the American Medical Association and the lawmakers who were against it, because it was unhealthy for the woman’s body. By 1960 the United States had out lawed abortion, but some stated did have an exception to policy, unless the female was raped or the child was a product of insist, or if the baby was already deformed, or if it endangered the life of the mother than and only then will the abortion be granted. In 1973 a woman by the name of Jane Roe over...
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...Through the decades, the female fight has morphed and adjusted to reflect society. From conquering suffrage, marital rights, career options, to shattering the glass ceiling, we have persevered with dignity, paving the way for generations like ours, in the 21st century. Today, we are entering an incredibly pivotal time for feminism in the US. Recent politics have stirred and added fuel to an already blossoming, enlightened frontier of women’s rights, but the new disputes are mere skirmishes compared to the laborious battles that past generations of women fought. In reading literature from the Gilded Age, and analyzing the unimaginable despotism that was commonplace for a woman, one can understand, and more importantly, appreciate how far civilization...
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...its competitors, which included Siemens, Toshiba and Philips. The president and CEO of GE Healthcare India, V. Raja read the newspaper headlines which described how government officials in Hyderabad had been confiscating ultrasound machines that they suspected were being used illegally to determine the sex of unborn children. The article featured a poster for GE ultrasound machines, a police officer wrapping up an ultrasound machine and a pregnant belly (Wicks, 2014). As a result of these news articles, 102 clinics had their registrations suspended, police seized 112 ultrasound machines and three suppliers, including Wipro GE Healthcare had been accused of supplying machines to clinics without registering them with the government. This controversy could affect GE Healthcare India’s sales for the next fiscal year and its reputation. What are the ethical issues? The 2001 Indian census revealed that there were 927 girls to every 1000 boys, down from 945:1000 in 1991 and 962:1000 in 1981. By 2001, 14 districts had a ratio of less than 800:1000. A 2006 study confirmed, after analyzing data from more than 1.1 million Indian households, that approximately 10 million girls had been aborted in the 1980s and 1990s. In India, having a girl child was considered a burden and huge responsibility while having a son was a blessing. Boys continued the family name and were the breadwinners. On the other hand, girls had little or no education and her parents had to pay a huge amount of money (dowry)...
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...Balance in the Administration of Justice and Security Integrative Paper University of Phoenix Balance in the Administration of Justice and Security Integrative Paper Justice and security are faced with concerns that affect in the daily processes. The concerns have to balance to guarantee no rights are violated. This paper will analyze the concerns regarding the legal environment in which the justice and security administrations function, the transformation in technology and mass communication and the influence on justice and security areas, the problems involving an individual’s rights as opposed to the needs of the justice system and security upholding order and public safety, how the growth of justice and security over the 21st Century best balances rights and freedoms with vigilance, and appropriate authority to safeguard the public in a free society with respect to constitutional assurances regarding individual rights. Issues Regarding Legal Environment Issues regarding the legal environment are abundant, especially when discovering how justice and security administrations function. To begin with, it is important to know who a security or legal administrator is. A security or legal administrator is an individual who fulfills an office management position or a non-attorney position and is liable for total routine operations. He or she is liable for safeguarding the distribution of services by overseeing his or her employees and recognizing and creating business prospects...
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...Abstract The topic covered in this research paper is abortion. This paper looks into the history of abortion, the pro-life view of abortion and the pro-choice view of abortion. Under history of abortion the information included is the time line of significant events of abortion such as becoming legal, also different ways in ancient times women would try to use abortions. The upgrading of technology making abortion safer and even if abortion was illegal women would still find a way to abort a baby are also covered under the history of abortion. Under pro-life choice for abortion looks into abortion murder, the rights of human and the rights of the unborn and that a women doesn't have a right to terminate her own fetus. Under pro- choice is the women's rights, and the rights to the women and also how abortion isn't murder due to the fact that fetuses cannot feel pain and how a women has a right to her own body and whether or not she decides she wants to carry a pregnancy to term. Pro-life people claim that abortion is an escape for people who are not responsible and don’t want to suffer the consequences of their actions. As a matter of fact, legal abortion will reduce morality and dignity of men and women in society according to some (Emmens 34-35). Doris Gordon, coordinator of Libertarians For Life, opposes abortion in her viewpoint, “Unborn children don’t cause women to become pregnant, but parents cause their children to be the womb, and as a result, they need...
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...Legal matters in business and society as a whole have changed greatly over the past couple of decades; and not necessarily for the better. Between attorneys wanting to make a buck at any cost, and business owners losing their diplomacy skills in exchange for resenting and milking others who they think have wronged them, the need for legal services has exploded in the United States (U.S.). At the dawn of the 21st century, law is as important in society and business as is marketing, advertising and experienced employees. Various use and purpose of law in business and society. Originally, the function of law in business and society was a plus. America developed, arguably, the best legal system in the world. This system was based off of righting wrongs. For criminal law, rehabilitation for juveniles, and punishment and reparation for adults is/was the main goal. In civil law, putting the plaintiff in the same position had the plaintiff not been wronged is/was the goal. Modernly, much has been adulterated. First, regarding the motives of attorney's, modernly, things have changed. A marvelous and historic thing happened when women's rights and rights for minorities were addressed and corrected. But then, something changed. Technology has advanced more in the past 40 years than in the entire recorded history of mankind. This advancement has enabled those countries that are more advanced and who enjoy the freedoms of a representative democracy, to be freed up from having...
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...The plaintiffs in this case were fourteen same-sex couples, and two men whose same-sex partners were deceased at the time of this ruling. James Obergefell was one of these plaintiffs. The named defendant, Richard Hodges, is the Director of the Ohio Department of Health. Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman and did not recognize same-sex marriages. The plaintiffs challenged these laws under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by filing lawsuits in federal district court in their home states. The plaintiffs argued that the Fourteenth Amendment required the States to allow same-sex marriage and to recognize the validity of such marriages performed in other jurisdictions. In each case, the federal district courts ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. On appeal, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit consolidated the cases and reversed the rulings. The plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. The question and answers under the holding and Kennedy rule of law said: “Do same-sex couples have the right to marry in every State? Yes. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that same-sex couples have the right to marry in every State. Must the States grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples? Yes. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the States must license marriages to same-sex couples. Must the States recognize same-sex marriages that have been licensed and performed lawfully...
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...Euthanasia is a word coined from the Greek language, Eu meaning good or noble; Thanatos meaning death, in the seventeenth century by Francis Bacon to refer to an easy, painless, happy death. (Singer) Within euthanasia, there are two types. Active and passive. Active euthanasia occurs when a medical professional or another person deliberately does something to cause the death of a patient. Passive euthanasia occurs when a medical professional either stops doing something that is keeping a patient alive or they don’t do something necessary to keep a patient alive. Like switching off life support or disconnecting a feeding tube. A term that is commonly confused, but is similar to euthanasia, is physician assisted suicide. Although the results and reasoning’s behind each type of death is the same, they differ in the way that the death is administered. In euthanasia, the physician performs the intervention. Usually with a lethal dose of a powerful drug such as morphine or Pentobarbital. During physician assisted suicide, the drug, and means of delivery, are given to the patient by the physician. However, the patient accomplishes the act of injection. Leading to his or her own death (A General History Of Euthanasia) The first time euthanasia was reported on record was around 400BC by Suetonius, a Roman historian, while describing the death of Augustus Caesar. Although the actions of an easy, painless death have been used on hopeless patients since ancient times, these acts have been...
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...get married. Opposing forces such as certain religous groups, and several other organizations are fighting to stop this from happening. There is an easy solution to the problem why not let people be. If America is truly a land of freedom and expression then why is same sex marriage is prohibited. HISTORY Gay Marriage is something that has been going on for centuries all around the world. Same sex marriage existed in places such as China dated as far back as the Ming Dynasty. The relationships consisted of men and women mostly women who entered into contracts with younger men and women in a fancy ceremony. These ceremonies are similar to the modern day wedding between a male and female. The first recorded gay marriage occured during the Roman Empire. This marriage was between an Emperor by the name of Elagabus and slave named Hierocles. This marriage still was not fair because in the eyes of the Roman Law, the slave Hierocles was noted as a female. Various Cultures did not find it strange for two men or women to get married it something that was quiet common in earlier time periods. Now in the 21st Century in 2001 the country of the Netherlands was the first place to allow same sex marriage. Shortly After various countries such as Argentina(2010),Belgium(2003),Canada(2001),Iceland(2010),Norway(2009),Portugal,(2010) South...
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...and sexual norms. Throughout the 1960s (and also the 1970s) a number of laws were put in place that created a new step forward for females in Britain which included the Legislation of Abortion Act (1967), the Divorce Act (1969) and the Equal Pay act (1970). Along with the invention of the Pill, these new legal rights for women gave new freedom and equality that was never employed before; for example, women were paid on average two thirds the amount that men were paid for the same job. This new feminist agenda of societal equality began to spread through literature, art, film and television. Feminist views were now spread more widely, whether than be by subliminal means like some literature pieces, or a more profound and upfront approach: such as in the James Bond literature and film franchise which portrayed it’s heroines as powerful and independent women. In this critical essay, I intend to evaluate the popular literature of the sixties and assess whether the sole purpose of these texts was to force the questioning and disruption of the ‘traditional certainties’ imposed in British society. Germaine Greer is an Australian academic, journalist and author is known to be a key feminist voice in the mid-20th century. Greer’s bestselling book The Female Eunuch sparked large amounts of controversy when...
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...theory which is the interpretation of a written Constitution that Is consistent with what was meant by those who drafted and ratified it. The Other is the original Means theory that view the interputation of a written constitution or law Should be based on what Reasonable people living at that time of its adoption would have declared. Robert Bork served as a law professor at Yale Law School. He served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit. He was nominated by Ronald Regan to the Supreme Court on July 1, 1987 to take the spot of Associate Justice William Rehnquist. Senator Ted Kennedy declared: “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley Abortions, blacks would sit at segregated Rogue police could break down citizens Door in midnight raids, school children could not be taught about evolution, writers And artists could be censored at the whim of the government, and the doors of Federal Courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens.” Bork nomination was declined on October 23, 1987. Bork was unhappy with the treatment of the nomination process, so he resigned his appellate court judgeship in 1988. I think the real issue surrounding the Bork bill was not what videos that Bork watched but that his privacy was violated by the reporter and the investgators. The reporter invaded his privacy based on the privacy act of 1974. (u.s.c. 552a), which mandates how the...
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...Zubiri opposes same-sex marriage, divorce By: Marc Jayson Cayabyab @MJcayabyabINQ INQUIRER.net 03:10 PM January 14th, 2016 RECOMMENDED Senatorial aspirant Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri on Thursday said he is against same-sex marriage and divorce in the Philippines. During the Pandesal forum held at the Kamuning Bakery Cafe on Thursday, the independent senatorial candidate said the predominantly Catholic country like the Philippines is not yet ready for same-sex marriage. “Personally, I do not agree with it. Although I believe in the freedom of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community to love who they want to love, to be who they want to be, but when it comes to same-sex marriage, the Filipino culture is not prepared for that,” Zubiri said. He said he is against divorce because it might result in dysfunctional families and children, which he said is a scenario in the United States, where divorce is legal. “Natatakot ako sa divorce. If there’s such a mechanism as divorce na madali lang maghiwalay, ang mangyayari maraming magte-test marriage,” Zubiri said. “You will have dysfunctional families. Maraming magsu-suicide, maraming mga sira-ulo, maraming mass murderers; these are borne out of the dark years of separation of their parents they experienced, and they feel they are to be blamed,” he added. Zubiri said he would rather improve the process of annulment in the Philippines. “At the same breath, we should also strengthen...
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...religious character known as Daniel. The lessons of faithfulness and obedience throughout the book transcend generations and still affect readers today. The setting of Daniel takes place during the “Babylonian exile” within the “courts of Babylonian, Median, and Persian kings” (Collins 33). This exile took place the around the sixth century B.C. Contrary to the setting, though, “critical scholarship has established that the book actually comes from the 2nd century B.C.” (33). During this era, the Jewish population was persecuted by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who went so far as to desecrate the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem by constructing a statue to the Greek god Zeus, much like King Nebuchadnezzar does in chapter 3 (Porteous 57). The biggest clue that Bible scholars notice when questioning the authorship is how accurate the succession of kingdoms is mentioned throughout the book. The author’s ability to hint at events that occur centuries after Daniel’s lifespan lead scholars to suspect an alternative author (Jeffrey 349). The book of Acts seems so straight forward as a mere history of the early Church that one can hardly imagine the controversy behind the tedious details in the critical examination thereof. Before one can begin any type of in-depth study of a particular passage, some questions have to be answered, or at a minimum, the issues have to be examined because definitive or absolute answers are not always within one’s grasp. The issues in question are authorship,...
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...SUBJECT BUSINESS ETHICS PROFESSOR CYRUS GONDA TOPIC UNETHICAL PRACTISE IN FOLLOWING SECTORS: HOSPITAL GROSSERY HOTEL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JOURNALISM GYMNASIUM INTERIOR INSURANCE UNETHICAL PRACTISE IN DIFFERENT SECTORS Hospital No profession is more fundamentally rooted in an ethic than medicine. In the 21st century, almost every young American physician graduates from medical school by reciting some version of an oath of ethical behavior first sworn to by doctors in the fifth century B.C. To be sure, the original formulation by the Greek physician Hippocrates is a bit outdated--starting with its invocation of obscure Greek gods and, among many anachronisms, equating treatment with "dietetic measures" and relegating surgery to barbers. Many medical schools have adopted updated versions of the oath, in which not only the language and concepts are modernized but also considerations such as avoiding overtreatment and factoring the patient's economic well-being into the therapeutic relationship are explicitly included in the pledge. Ethical guidelines are central to medical practice because of what one respondent to ACPE's recent poll of physician leaders summarized as the "inherent conflict of interest" between the physician's role as trusted healer and the physician's role as breadwinner--earning a living from the medical knowledge and ministrations applied Case studies: the legal implications for health care's bad business practices Bad, or unethical,...
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