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Reviving A Natural Right: The Freedom Of Autonomy Amendment, Michael Anthony Lawrence Apr 2005

Reviving A Natural Right: The Freedom Of Autonomy Amendment, Michael Anthony Lawrence

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America in the early twenty-first century is a place where oppressive state constitutional amendments discriminate against millions of gay Americans; where compassionate end-of-life choice is illegal in 49 states and where the one state where it is legal is being sued by the U.S. government; where hundreds of thousands are arrested yearly and tens of thousands are in prison for private possession or use of marijuana; where a woman’s right to maintain control over her own reproductive decisions hangs by a thread; and where religious freedom is under relentless attack.

Whatever became of the ideal that represented the very foundation …