April 13, 2007:
Theocrats infiltrate U.S. government| |
Excerpt: The infiltration of the federal government by large numbers of people seeking to impose a religious agenda -- which is very different from simply being people of faith -- is one of the most important stories of the last six years. It's also a story that tends to go underreported, perhaps because journalists are afraid of sounding like conspiracy theorists.
But this conspiracy is no theory. The official platform of the Texas Republican Party pledges to "dispel the myth of the separation of church and state." And the Texas Republicans now running the country are doing their best to fulfill that pledge. |
April 13, 2007:
Abstinence classes don't stop sex| |
Excerpt: Students who took part in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex as those who did not, according to a study ordered by Congress.
Also, those who attended one of the four abstinence classes that were reviewed reported having similar numbers of sexual partners as those who did not attend the classes. And they first had sex at about the same age as other students -- 14.9 years, according to Mathematica Policy Research Inc. |
April 6, 2007:
Police raid finds tomato growing operation| |
Excerpt: Guns drawn, police serving a marijuana search warrant at a Pullman apartment found green leafy plant material. It just wasn't the kind they normally find in residences in the college town.
It was tomato plants.
Comment: In America, your home can be raided by police, solely because it's alleged that you possess a heat lamp for growing plants -- an item so common it's sold in virtually all hardware stores, garden shops, at Target stores, etc. |
Jan. 13, 2007:
Teacher faces 40 years in prison despite obvious 'reasonable doubt'| |
Excerpt: A 40-year-old substitute teacher faces up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of exposing children to pornography on a computer at the Connecticut middle school where she taught.
I suppose it's remotely possible the charges are valid. But the story doesn't add up. It seems far more plausible from the accounts I'm reading that this woman, who had no prior criminal record and a clean teaching history, was using an insecure edition of Internet Explorer and was hit with an adware infestation she didn't know how to deal with. |
Dec. 20, 2006:
Charlotte School District bans 'gay' penguin book| |
Comment: And Tango Makes Three is a kids' book about Roy and Silo, two male penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo that bonded, and were given an egg to hatch. The egg held a baby penguin that grew up as their adoptive daughter. It's not about gay bars and anal sex, it's about penguins and family, and it's a true story.
It's a harmless and charming story, and the moral is only that love is sweet and family is good. But that's a terrifying lesson indeed, if you're a hate-filled bigot in Charlotte, NC. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Dec. 3, 2006:
Republicans' bill would further harangue women seeking abortions| |
Excerpt: Supporters of the "'Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2006" argue it is urgently needed to inform women about the agony that they say fetuses suffer when aborted.
Comment: Christopher H. Smith (R-New Jersey) and Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) are simply dishonest men, opposed to abortion but unable to argue their case on its merits, so instead they're trying to give women a guilt trip for making a decision any woman has the right to make. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Oct. 2, 2006:
Victory for anti-sex crusaders:
Dildo ban doesn't interest Supreme Court| |
Comment: The American Taliban wins again. Lawmakers forbid sex toys that make them blush, and the Supreme Court isn't interested.
In the government Republicans are building, they regulate how you can masturbate, and a clerk in a bookstore faces legal consequences for having that job.
Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Oct. 1, 2006:
Irony overload: Dad demands banning of book
about banning books, during Banned Books Week| |
Excerpt: "The book had a bunch of very bad language in it," Diana Verm said. "It shouldn't be in there because it's offending people. ... If they can't find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn't have a book at all." |
Sept. 24, 2006:
Arch-conservatives ponder blocking access to birth control| |
Comment: No-one who's honest with themselves can be surprised. Certainly no-one who's talked with more than a few "pro-life" protesters can be surprised.
Anti-abortion activists believe in forcing women to go through pregnancy and childbirth against their will. And for a lot of these nutcakes, their rhetoric about saving "babies" is bull.
They're against abortion because they want birth to be the punishment for sex. They're simply against sex -- unless it leads to birth. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Sept. 18, 2006:
Pregnancy as punishment for being single
Biting Beaver| |
Excerpt: "No." I state plainly. "I am not married. I've been in a relationship for several years and I have three children, I don't want a fourth." I respond tersely.
"Oh, I see." He says and then he hurries on, "Well, see. *I* understand. I want you to know that I understand what you're saying. But see, the problem is that we have 4 doctors here right now but only one of them ever writes EC prescriptions. But see, the thing is that he'll interview you and see if you meet his criteria. Now, I called the pharmacy but I also talked to him and well....*clears throat*....you can come down and try to get it. You know, if you meet his criteria he'll give you a prescription, I mean, there's really no harm in trying." the nurse trails off, his voice falters as I realize what I'm being told. |
Aug. 8, 2006:
Math is bad, because it isn't Christian!| |
Excerpt: Math is Bad, because it's not explicitly christian. I mean, it uses zero, which was invented by a Hindu, and brought to europe by Muslims. Algebra was invented by Muslims! The word "algorithm" comes from the name of a Muslim mathematician!
... "What makes this calculus course distinctly Christian? What makes this different from the local secular university? Are we using the same text? Yes. Are you teaching it the same way? Yes. Then why is this called a Christian college and that one a non-Christian college?" |
July 12, 2006:
Heroin injecting room wildly popular with neighbors| |
Excerpt: Nearly three-quarters of local residents and businesses support the heroin injecting center at Kings Cross, reporting a significant decrease in public drug use and rejecting the idea it encourages people to inject drugs.
Comment: This is an example of how a sane society, in this case Australia, handles drug problems. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
June 16, 2006:
Garden shop owner gets 30 years in prison for selling iodine| |
Comment: Methamphetamine is an ugly drug, but nothing about it is half as ugly as its effect on cops and courts. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
May 18, 2006:
FDA approves synthetic drug that mimics marijuana's medical effects
... but marijuana has no medical use, FDA says
May 2, 2006:
Mexican President will sign bill legalizing marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for personal use| |
Comment: If you think freedom is a good idea -- if you think people ought to be able to do what they want with their own bodies, minds, and time -- then Mexico's decriminalization of drugs is terrific news. Helen & Harry LINK
Comment: Someone once joked that the Governor of Texas was the real president of Mexico. I guess it's true. Marshall S. LINK |
April 14, 2006:
War on drugs closes in on dreaded sage
April 12, 2006:
Dozens arrested at Brigham Young protest against Mormon Church's anti-gay bigotry
April 3, 2006:
Radical rightwing's lies endanger women's health and freedom| |
Comment: Only a person who's "fundamentally" rotten at the core could knowingly support policies based on lies and intimidation, policies that deeply affect our lives, afflict our health, and constrict our freedoms.
I pray that the people who support these repressive policies are merely ignorant... because I shudder in fear at the thought that cruel misogynists who would knowingly support these repressive, downright deadly policies actually walk among us.
Helen & Harry LINK |
Feb. 21, 2006:
Supreme Court poised to ban late term abortions
Feb. 17, 2006:
'Homeland Security' cops announce in library: "Viewing internet pornography is forbidden"
Feb. 1, 2006:
Court hears challenge to Kansas directive that all underage sex must be reported
Jan. 30, 2006:
At least 18 states debate bills allowing health care workers to withhold treatment from anyone they want
Jan. 25, 2006:
Principal will remove "obscene, inappropriate, libelous and disruptive" material from school paper
Jan. 21, 2006:
Reality series cancelled without airing when gay-headed family wins
Dec. 12, 2005:
DEA raids medical marijuana clinics
Dec. 1, 2005:
Police fine schoolkids for foul language
Nov. 7, 2005:
Protesters arrested for going topless
Nov. 5, 2005:
No pat-downs at football game, Judge orders
Nov. 2, 2005:
US Supreme Court will decide whether tea may be sipped
Oct. 30, 2005:
McMartin Preschool 'victim' comes clean:
"I only remember being happy there"
Oct. 23, 2005:
Rape victim couldn't get 'morning after' pill
Oct. 17, 2005:
More marijuana arrests than ever before:
771,608 Americans arrested for pot in 2004
Oct. 14, 2005:
Marijuana megadose may build better brains, curb depression and anxiety, study suggests
Oct. 13, 2005:
Medical marijuana user extradited from Canadian hospital for prosecution in America
Oct. 7, 2005:
Operator of website that embarrassed U.S. military is arrested on obscenity charges
Oct. 1, 2005:
For scissor-stabbing death of transgendered man: Four years in prison
Aug. 15, 2005:
Parents sue over secret police search of Tic-Tac sharing middle-schooler
Aug. 8, 2005:
Anti-porn nutball named to FCC "strategic planning" office
Aug. 3, 2005:
Judge tosses cops' internet sex-sting tactics
Police detective had posed as young girl
July 21, 2005:
79-year-old crossing guard fired for refusing drug test
July 17, 2005:
Another marijuana-related death
Supreme Court murders California man
June 27, 2005:
Medical marijuana activists nervous after raids
June 27, 2005:
Prohibition's grip strangles families in American midwest
June 24, 2005:
Censored by U.S. governmentExcerpt: Yes, that is correct. The wonderful things that used to be here, the very funny things that you want to read, have been made retroactively illegal by the US government, in a side-handed attack on the pornography industry.
We might mention that the material here isn't even pornography as you normally think of it -- this site is just adult humor, in essay format, with some illustrations. The government is mandating that we meet certain bookkeeping requirements, ones impossible to meet for this site. Never mind that those requirements do not actually gain the public anything. This is the strongest attack on free speech since the passage of the CDA, and oddly, the media seems to have hardly noticed. The penalty for not abiding by these bookkeeping requirements is five years prison.
The regulations were promulgated by Alberto Gonzales, US Attorney General appointed by George Bush. If you voted for Bush, this is your fault. If you think this country is free, you are sadly mistaken. No nation has freedom when it is run by religious zealots.
June 1, 2005:
Women's suffrage opponent seeks elections office
May 27, 2005:
It's legal again, to fire gov't workers for being gay
May 14, 2005:
Whistleblowing chaplain fired
May 11, 2005:
$4.2-billion down the toilet since 1997
May 7, 2005:
Baptist Church kicks out Democrats
May 1, 2005:
Hundreds protest Dobson at his cult's headquarters
April 29, 2005:
Abortion restrictions pass House, expected to pass Senate
April 29, 2005:
Men face charges for snow dick
April 23, 2005:
School District relents, rewrites dress code
April 22, 2005:
Dobson, other evangelical nutballs propose defunding "liberal" courts
April 21, 2005:
High school doesn't support girls' vaginas
April 14, 2005:
White House ad lies about cancer
risks from tobacco, marijuanaExcerpt: "Quite a few people think that smoking pot is less likely to cause cancer than a regular cigarette. You may even have heard some parents say they'd rather their kid smoked a little pot than get hooked on cigarettes. Wrong, and wrong again. ... One joint can deliver four times as much cancer-causing tar as one cigarette."
... "As a parent, I'm appalled that the White House is actually telling parents not to worry about a drug that's proven to be both deadly and highly addictive," Fox said. "I'd much rather my kids not smoke anything, but the data is crystal clear that of the two drugs, tobacco is far more carcinogenic and far more addictive. And the message to kids is even worse. The ad says, in effect, 'If you've already tried marijuana, cigarettes are no big deal because they have one-quarter the tar.' That's a message that could literally kill."
April 13, 2005:
Webmaster blasts home town for landslide anti-gay vote
April 13, 2005:
Justice Scalia, do you sodomize your wife?
April 8, 2005:
Zombie boy gets six months in jail, forfeits $5,000 bail
(Still faces charges over so-called "short story")
March 24, 2005:
Southern cinemas reject IMAX Volcanoes film
over passing reference to evolution
March 7, 2005:
Utah bans on-line pornExcerpt: The Utah Senate has approved legislation that will force ISPs to ban certain web sites that are defined as 'harmful to children'.
Basically that includes any site that fits into a Utah senator's definition of pornography, which we understand is quite wide.
March 4, 2005:
Yet another state gets to outlaw "genital stimulating devices," as God just rolls her eyes
by Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle
March 3, 2005:
No "Gay pride" for National Football League
March 1, 2005:
Boondocks too biting for the Chicago TribuneBanned and banned again
Feb. 27, 2005:
High school student arrested for felonious fiction
Feb. 5, 2005:
Touchdown for the indecency police
by Frank Rich, The New York Times
Feb. 2, 2005:
Principal bans 'anti-military,' 'anti-American' materials
Jan. 24, 2005:
Supreme Court OKs drug-sniffing dogs in traffic stops
Jan. 5, 2005:
Mexico defends educational comic for illegal immigrants
Dec. 29, 2004:
Court backs firing of waitress who wouldn't wear makeup
Dec. 15, 2004:
Legislators sue to stop needle-exchange project
Dec. 13, 2004:
Christian persecution or "christian" prosecution?
Dec. 11, 2004:
"Homosexual conduct is against the law," says trooper
Dec. 5, 2004:
Wacko activist group responsible for 99.8% of indecency complaints to FCC
Dec. 3, 2004:
Networks refuse ad from United Church of Christ
Bland message of tolerance deemed too controversialExcerpt: Citing the Bush administration's proposal of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, CBS and UPN have refused to run a UCC commercial that advertises the church's acceptance of all people, including gays and lesbians. NBC also deemed the ad "too controversial" to air.
The ad depicts two bouncers in front of a church letting in two white girls and a white heterosexual couple but turning away others, including people of color, a man in a wheelchair, and two men holding hands. A message reads, "Jesus didn't turn people away. Neither do we." As the camera pans over a crowd of diverse UCC members, including a woman who puts her arm around another woman, a voiceover states, "No matter who you are, or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome here."
Dec. 2, 2004:
Bush "abstinence only" program lies to kids about sex, HIV dangers
Dec. 1, 2004:
Alabama Republican seeks to ban books with gay characters
Dec. 1, 2004:
Manufacturing outrage
by Tim Hager, Up & Coming Weekly and Frank Rich, The New York Times
Nov. 30, 2004:
It's religion, stupid
by HappySysiphus, Unknown News
Nov. 18, 2004:
First-time pot-seller gets 55 years in prison
Oct. 17, 2004:
Classical music is on drugs
Oct. 11, 2004:
Edwards calls for tougher regulation of cold medicines
Oct. 1, 2004:
D.C. jail stay ends in death for quadriplegic man# The judge is a killer. There’s just no way anyone can fein surprise when a man who needs constant medical attention is jailed for a first-time offense of the ludicrous marijuana laws, and dies in custody. Everyone but the most self-deluded CSI-believer knows DC’s jail is a famously inhumane facility, and knows that jailhouse medical care in general is second-worst only to no medical care at all.
Ten day sentence, my ass. This was a death sentence. =H&HH=
Sept. 5, 2004:
Feds violate state law, use illegal warrant to raid medical marijuana patient's home
Aug. 13, 2004:
Man sentenced to 21 years on drug violations
Aug. 10, 2004:
Dry humping on Will & Grace not indecent, FCC decides
Aug. 9, 2004:
Left wing thugs try to intimidate Rev. Falwell
Aug. 1, 2004:
'You have to take off that shirt right now'
July 29, 2004:
Constiution doesn't include right to sexual privacy
Federal Court OKs ban on sale of sex toys
July 27, 2004:
Separation of church and state
by H&HH, Unknown News
July 25, 2004:
Children to get vaccination against getting high
July 19, 2004:
County backs down in dildo battle
July 14, 2004:
Pennsylvania man loses license for drinking
(not drunk driving, just drinking beer)
June 22, 2004:
Buy a politically incorrect teddy bear,
get investigated by a federal grand juryExcerpt: If you bought the “Bush Kills Arabs Dead” teddy bear from the georgewbush.org online store, the FBI may have your name and credit card number.
June 17, 2004:
Boot display canceled because of controversy
June 10, 2004:
Cocaine in tea served at U.S. Embassy
May 27, 2004:
Cops count on pizza tattletales
May 16, 2004:
Cleavage gets 13-year-old sent home from Catholic school
April 28, 2004:
High school bans sack lunches, baked goods
April 27-28, 2004:
School censors gay candidate for student body president
... and judge sides with school
April 27, 2004:
Secret Service questions student
about anti-war drawings
April 25, 2004:
Law bans holding hands, smooching under age 16
April 22, 2004:
Bill would ban low-riding pants
Penlties kick in if cops can see underwear
April 22, 2004:
Bill would let doctors refuse treatment to gays, Muslims, pregnant women ...
April 21, 2004:
Resistance is a noun:
Naked lunch in the (un)American midwest
by XIX, Unknown News
April 17, 2004:
Gay-friendly hotel boots straights
April 14, 2004:
Court allows girl, 13, to be boy
April 12, 2004:
Do Republicans eat pussy?
by Warren Celli, Unknown News
April 9, 2004:
Barnes & Noble yanks art magazine for "offensive" nudity on cover
April 6, 2004:
Morissette mocks U.S. censorship
April 6, 2004:
Bush administration wages war on pornography
April 3, 2004:
White House reverses policy:
Gays protected from job discrimination (until November)
April 1, 2004:
Boobies OK after all, says Tennessee bureaucrat ...
but genitals will have to go
March 30, 2004:
Woman charged with crime against nature when boyfriend eats her out
March 27, 2004:
15-year-old arrested for sexy photos of herself
March 25, 2004:
Georgia House votes 160-0 to ban genital piercings for women
March 24, 2003:
Webhost yanks Yellow Times
March 19, 2004:
Mississippi high court upholds law barring sale of sex toys
March 17, 2004:
Tennessee County wants to outlaw homosexuality
March 17, 2004:
Feds can fire gay workers, says Office of Special Counsel
Gov't stops investigating
gay bias claims
March 14, 2004:
Half-million-dollar fines proposed for naughty language on radio, TV
March 13, 2004:
Wal-Mart bans newspaper over f-word ...
until City Weekly agrees to watch its fucking language
March 13, 2004:
Sideways ballcap lands teen in jail
March 12, 2003:
No special privileges for ...
by G. Hayduke, Unknown News
March 11, 2004:
US police put hip-hop under surveillance
March 10, 2004:
Teen abstinence pledge fails 88% of time
And 'pledge' teens are less likely to use condoms
March 8, 2004:
Scalia addressed homophobic group while considering gay rights case
March 5, 2004:
Married couple gets prison for operating "obscene" web site
March 1, 2004:
Baylor students may be punished for editorial
Baptist campus paper backs same-sex 'marriages'
Feb. 27, 2004:
The mystery of identity
by Underground Panther, Unknown News
Feb. 20, 2004:
Ass't Principal admits planting evidence in student's locker
Feb. 18, 2004:
Student expelled for listening to rock music at home
Feb. 14, 2004:
Sexual battery complaint against "Defense of Marriage" Republican
State Congressman's name "blacked out" of police report
Feb. 11, 2004:
FCC Chief calls Super Bowl show 'new low'
Feb. 10, 2004:
Shy bladder during drug test gets some workers fired
Feb. 4, 2004:
Pharmacist refuses prescription for rape victim's morning-after pill
Feb. 1, 2004:
Principal ordered gynecological exams, STD tests
for 8th-graders, as punishment for skipping school
Jan. 29, 2004:
Judge gags sex toy saleslady
Jan. 29, 2004:
Anti-police rap CD has sheriff riled
Jan. 27, 2004:
Polygamy laws next to be tossed, says Scalia
Jan. 22, 2004:
Wal-Mart's ignoble war on drugs
Jan. 15, 2004:
Bush ends "discrimination" against faith-based charities
Jan. 15, 2004:
Feds drool over saliva-based drug tests
Jan. 14, 2004:
Rock-and-roll censored for broadcast
Jan. 14, 2004:
U.S. "Drug Czar" wants all kids to pee in a cup
Jan. 14, 2004:
Rapper says FCC should have "the right to censor anybody" ... except herExcerpt: "I think they should have the right to censor anybody, but my song didn't have any of the seven "dirty words" that you're not allowed to say on American radio ... "
Jan. 14, 2004:
U.S. "Drug Czar" wants all kids to pee in a cup
Jan. 13, 2004:
Random roadblocks OK'd by Supreme Court
Jan. 11, 2004:
Marijuana activist indicted for refusing DNA
Jan. 2, 2004:
Pain of cancer makes Republican legislator remember freedom
Dec. 15, 2003:
Texas woman charged with obscenity for selling dildos, vibrators
Dec. 5, 2003:
High school student expelled for possession of Advil
Teacher searched teen's purse in girls' restroom
Nov. 14, 2003:
Britney Spears sings of masturbation
Nov. 7, 2003:
Armed police storm school in drugs raid
Nov. 4, 2003:
Voters will decide about lap dances
Nov. 1, 2003:
High school girl suspended for safer-sex T-shirt
Oct. 16, 2003:
Trash collectors find marijuana ashes; homeowner gets 6˝ years in prison
Oct. 15, 2003:
America is eradicating my country's culture
by Leonida Zurita-Vargas with Maria Cristina Caballero, The New York Times
Oct. 15, 2003:
Trash collectors find marijuana ashes; homeowner gets 6˝ years in prison
Oct. 9, 2003:
Vatican: Don't use condoms to prevent AIDS
Sept. 30, 2003:
Liquor law bites the hands that wrote it
Sept. 29, 2003:
Kansas Att'y General: Sodomy case could lead to legalized
polygamy, incest, bestiality and sex between adults and children
Sept. 25, 2003:
If you're fishing in Minnesota, 4th amendment is null and void
Fishermen "have no expectation of privacy"
Sept. 24, 2003:
Police Sergeant smoked marijuana with Chief
Sept. 18, 2003:
Gay Canadian couple denied entry to US
On their way to speak at human rights conference
Sept. 18, 2003:
High school athletes protest punishment for broomstick sodomy hazing
Sept. 11, 2003:
Cops seize farmer's crop, destroy fields
But -- oops -- it wasn't marijuana after all
Sept. 9, 2003:
Pastor accused of heresy sees climate of intolerance
Sept. 8, 2003:
Cabbies arrested for driving narks to drug deal
Sept. 7, 2003:
Candidate for Mayor pledges police state
if that's what it takes to win war on drugs
Aug. 26, 2003:
Prohibitionist pledges to protest Mr. Nice
Aug. 21, 2003:
VICTORY Act would merge "war on terror" with "war on drugs"
Aug. 17, 2003:
Fake checkpoints OK in search for illegal drugs, court says
Aug. 17, 2003:
Rice briefs 'Christian Zionists' on Mideast peace plan
Aug. 13, 2003:
City tells Mom & Pop store:
Hire cops, stop neighborhood drug dealing, or we'll shut you down
Aug. 13, 2003:
Archbishop censures priest for non-anti-gay sermon
Aug. 13, 2003:
Cop accused of pocketing money from school drug searches
Aug. 12, 2003:
Apocalypse preacher says White House solicits his advice
Aug. 10, 2003:
History clouds case of clove cigarettes
Surprise! They’re illegal in Florida (sort of)
Aug. 7, 2003:
Court endorses warrantless searches in meth cases
Aug. 7, 2003:
US Border Agent allegedly tried to cross border with illegal drugs
Aug. 5, 2003:
Gay rights: A threat to the traditional insult
by Underground Panther, Unknown News
Aug. 4, 2003:
Alcohol cops prowl beach for underage drinkers
Aug. 4, 2003:
State Insurance Commissioner arrested on DUI charge
July 31, 2003:
Dentist called cops when patient asked for pain-killers
Violation of privacy?
Court says no, it's just good citizenship.
July 24, 2003:
Entertainer banned by book store after Bush remark
July 21, 2003:
Anti-terror law enhances penalty for drug crimes
Operation of meth labs prosecuted as
"manufacture of nuclear or chemical weapons"
July 1, 2003:
Textbook thought police
June 22, 2003:
Punishment is forever for perverts
Iowa 'safety zone' law leaves sex offenders with few places to live
April 5, 2003:
Republican Party behind Dixie Chicks 'controversy'
Feb. 3, 2003:
Marijuana found during search of inmate's cell
Jan. 29, 2003:
Vitamins get 9-year-old booted from schoolExcerpt: "My mom gave me the pill and forgot that I was supposed to take it in the office." Ryan said he ate it at lunch, telling a fellow classmate he was taking an energy booster. "I told a boy that I was takin' a uh a multi-vitamin. They told the teacher and the teacher said it to the principal."
Ryan says he was questioned and then made to write out a confession about what happened and sign it.
Jan. 28, 2003:
Vitamins get 9-year-old booted from school
Jan. 23, 2003:
Fourth student arrested in VHS drug search
Dec. 17, 2002:
U.S. alone against reproductive rights at U.N. population conference
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1 : the quality or state of being free: as a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action b : liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another : INDEPENDENCE c : the quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something onerous <freedom from care> d : EASE, FACILITY <spoke the language with freedom> e : the quality of being frank, open, or outspoken <answered with freedom> f : improper familiarity g : boldness of conception or execution h : unrestricted use <gave him the freedom of their home>
2 : a political right : FRANCHISE, PRIVILEGE
synonyms FREEDOM, LIBERTY, LICENSE mean the power or condition of acting without compulsion. FREEDOM has a broad range of application from total absence of restraint to merely a sense of not being unduly hampered or frustrated <freedom of the press>. LIBERTY suggests release from former restraint or compulsion <the released prisoner had difficulty adjusting to his new liberty>. LICENSE implies freedom specially granted or conceded and may connote an abuse of freedom <freedom without responsibility may degenerate into license>.
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