Sentences with phrase «against legalising»
A number of speakers challenged the continuing anachronism of having 26 seats reserved for bishops in the House of Lords, while others pointed out the contrast between the recent House of Commons vote against legalising assisted dying and the overwhelming public support in favour suggested that a more representative Parliament would also be a more progressive one.
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Their conclusion is stark: «Current law and policy is a form of legalised cruelty against adult kangaroos and joeys.»
It's obviously a very serious thing to legalise something that is against the law but I'd certainly take a good look into legalising prostitution so that women who are doing it anyway can have some protection.
It finds efforts to legislate for humanist marriage have been delayed, partly because of the huge backlash against the coalition government's bid to legalise same - sex marriage.
Apartheid was a legalised system of discrimination against non-white people introduced in South Africa in 1948.
Two Liberal Democrat MPs plan to vote against the bill to legalise equal marriage later, despite the fact their own Lynne Featherstone is responsible for pushing it forward as equalities minister.
The private legal practitioner, lecturer and fierce critic of homosexuality, Moses Foh - Amoaning, continues to maintain his disposition against attempts by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community to have same - sex marriage legalised.
The Hippocratic Oath was near - universally assented to by graduating doctors until baby - butchering was legalised, when it was suddenly dropped, for it contains a specific prohibition against abortion.
By contrast, a report to the Scottish Parliament in 2003, A Critical Examination of Responses to Prostitution in Four Countries: Victoria, Australia; Ireland; the Netherlands; and Sweden, found that countries (such as the Netherlands) which had legalised and / or regulated prostitution had seen a dramatic increase in all aspects of the sex industry and a corresponding increase in organised crime and violence against women.