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Abortion | Animal Experimentation | Cloning | Gangs | Gay Marriage/Rights
Global Warming | Gun Control | Hate Crimes | Lowering the Drinking Age
Marijuana | Military Draft | Music censorship | Patriot Act
Stem Cell Research | Steroids | Welfare
Abortion
Anti-Abortion
Abortion is ProLife
http://www.abortionisprolife.com/
National Right to Life
http://www.nrlc.org/
The ultimate goal of the National Right to Life Committee is to restore legal protection to innocent human life. The primary interest of the National Right to Life Committee and its members has been the abortion controversy; however, it is also concerned with related matters of medical ethics which relate to the right to life issues of euthanasia and infanticide. The Committee does not have a position on issues such as contraception, sex education, capital punishment, and national defense.
In addition to maintaining a lobbying presence at the federal level, NRLC serves as a clearinghouse of information for its state affiliates and local chapters, its individual members, the press, and the public.People for Life
http://www.peopleforlife.org/
People for Life opposes all acts of violence. Violence directed against abortion facilities amounts to terrorism and deserves unequivocal condemnation. Such terrorism is not only an affront to the sanctity of human life; it is also an affront to the rule of law, without which we can never hope to achieve a just--or maintain a free--society.Pennsylvania Pro-Life
http://www.paprolife.org/about_us.html
The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, Inc., is committed to promoting the dignity and value of human life from conception to natural death and to restoring legal protection for the unborn. Through legislation, political action, education and other legal means, we proclaim the truth about abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.Pro Choice
NARAL Pro-Choice America
http://www.naral.org/
Along with defending and securing a woman's freedom to choose, NARAL Pro-Choice America is leading the way to make abortion less necessary, fighting for policies and programs that enable women and men to make responsible and informed decisions about sex, contraception, pregnancy, childbirth and abortion.Pro-Choice Public Education Project
http://www.protectchoice.org/
The Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP) is a collaborative project of the country's leading national pro-choice organizations dedicated to empowering this new generation of pro-choice activists and supporters. With the input of young pro-choice leaders, PEP puts choice on the radar screens of today's young women, educates them about threats to reproductive rights, and provides them with tools for action.Pro Choice Talk
http://www.prochoicetalk.com/
Pro Choice Talk is a free public forum organization for the debate on pro choice v pro life abortion views. In our pro choice vs. pro life forum you'll find abortion essays, articles, plenty of arguments and debates, facts posted by groups on both sides, statitics, members heartfelt reasons for their different views, teenage pregnancy, pro choice quotes and pro life quotes, information on pro choice abortion and always very heated debate.The Abortion Access Project
http://www.abortionaccess.org/home.htm
AAP is an organization of reproductive rights activists and women’s health care providers dedicated to making abortion truly accessible. AAP works on the state and national levels to increase accessible abortion services, increase the number of abortion providers, improve the education of health professional students, and educate the public to see abortion as part of comprehensive reproductive health care. AAP has developed models of activism and training that can be used in other regions across the country.
Animal Experimentation
Definition: antivivisection - Opposition to vivisection, that is, experiments on living animals, which is practised in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries on the grounds that it may result in discoveries of importance to medical science. Antivivisectionists argue that it is immoral to inflict pain on helpless creatures, and that it is unscientific because results achieved with animals may not be paralleled with human beings.
Animal Experiments - Main page
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/animalexperiments/animalexperiments.jsp
The Moral Status of Animals: Selected Internet Resources on the Moral Status of Animal
http://ethics.sandiego.edu/Applied/Animals/
Animal Liberation
http://www.animal-lib.org.au/
Cloning
What is the Human Genome Project?
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/about.shtml
Begun in 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project is a 13-year effort coordinated by the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/cloning/
Our special report gives you an instant update - as well as looking at the wider issues.Human Cloning
http://www.humancloning.org/index.php
Gangs
Gangs 101
http://www.lincolnnet.net/users/lrttrapp/block/gangs101.htm
All gangs have identifiable levels of membership. These levels of membership indicate status within a gang and acts as the organizational maintenance systems.Gangs and At-Risk Kids
http://www.gangsandkids.com/
Gang and Security Threat Group Awareness
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/gangs/
Gay Marriage
Gay Marriage: The Arguments and the Motives
http://www.bidstrup.com/marriage.htm
Gay Rights
http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/frontdoor.cfm?issue_type=gay_rights
Public Agenda has been providing unbiased and unparalleled research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life. Nonpartisan and nonprofit, Public Agenda was founded by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1975. Public Agenda's two-fold mission is to help:
- American leaders better understand the public's point of view.
- Citizens know more about critical policy issues so they can make thoughtful, informed decisions.
Global Warming
EPA: Global Warming
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html
GlobalWarming.org
http://www.globalwarming.org/
The Cooler Heads Coalition formed May 6, 1997 to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis. Coalition members will also follow the progress of the international Global Climate Change Treaty negotiations.Global Warming Student Research Page
http://www.globalwarming.org/student.htm
Union of Concerned Scientists: Global Warming
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/index.cfm
UCS is an independent nonprofit alliance of more than 100,000 concerned citizens and scientists. We augment rigorous scientific analysis with innovative thinking and committed citizen advocacy to build a cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Global Warming
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
Frequently Asked Questions
Gun Control
Women Against Gun Control
http://www.wagc.com/
Gun Control
http://www.guncite.com/
Gun Laws, Gun Control & Gun Rights
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/gunlaw.htm
ACLU on Gun Control
http://archive.aclu.org/library/aaguns.html
Gun Control
http://www.justfacts.com/gun_control.htm
Taking On Gun Control
http://hematite.com/dragon/gunintro.html
Hate Crimes
U.S. Department of Justice: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Hate Crime Statistics
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hatecm.htm
The Hate Crimes Research Network is designed to link academic research that is being done on the topic of bias motivated crime. Based at the Department of Sociology of Portland State University in Oregon, the HCRN links work done by sociologists, criminologists, psychologists and other academics, including graduate students. The goal is to create a common pool of research and data to understand the phenomenon of hate crimes. The HCRN and this site are directed by Dr. Randy Blazak.Hate Crimes Research Network
http://www.hatecrime.net/
The National Hate Test
http://www.usanetwork.com/functions/nhday/nat2.html
Lowering the Drinking Age
The Lower Drinking Age Debate
http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/teens/a/aa010730a.htm
See the bottom of the page for more sites on this topic.The National Youth Rights Association
http://www.youthrights.org
Lower the Drinking Age - get informed
http://www.youthrights.org/drinkingage.shtml
Marijuana
Marijuana for Medical Purposes
http://www.debatabase.org/details.asp?topicID=254
The Use of Marijuana for Medical Purposes
http://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/analysis/051402.html
Marijuana Rx: The Patient's Fight for Medicinal Pot
http://www.marijuana-as-medicine.org/
Military Draft
Selective Service System
http://www.sss.gov/
US Government Selective Service System Home Web SiteSelective Service Draft Registration Freeze Initiative Resolution Committee
http://www.draftresistance.org/
This site is a crime against the Military Selective Service Act. It advocates. We are specifically encouraging resistance to the registration laws of the United States, seeing registration as the necessary step toward conscription (the draft). We are what the Selective Service calls 'anti-war intellectuals.' We see the direct link between registration, the draft, and aggressive war. Remember, non- registration is the strategy to beat the draft. If enough of us refuse, there is nothing they can do!U.S. Military: What happens during a Draft?
http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/bldraft.htm
Here is a brief overview of what would occur if the United States returned to a draft.Military Draft
http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/index.html?http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Bloody_MilitaryDraft.html
A Military draft is the practice of a government forcibly conscripting members of the population into the armed forces. This is a violation of the right to life, an initiation of force by the state against the individual, and a betrayal of the purpose of the government.Why I cannot suppor a renewed Military Draft at this time.
http://members.aol.com/philliprcoleman/pc20.htm
Phill Coleman, Senior Librarian - The American War Library
Music censorship
Music censorship: the beating goes on
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13870
National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) - Music Censorship
http://www.ncac.org/issues/musicmenu.html
What is Music Censorship?
http://www.freemuse.org/sw2338.asp
FREEMUSE is an independent international organization advocating freedom of expression for musicians and composers worldwide.Censorship: Challenged Books - Internet - Music - Organizations - Schools
http://www.open.org/~dallashs/censor.htm
Steroids
See Anabolic steroids @ National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NIDA Community Drug Alert Bulletin - Anabolic Steroids
http://www.drugabuse.gov/SteroidAlert/SteroidAlert.html
Steroid abusers often do not realize that over time, these drugs can take a heavy toll on their health.
Patriot Act
Librarians' Index to the Internet: USA PATRIOT Act Resources
http://lii.org/search/patriotactPatriot Act: The Pros And Cons
http://school.newsweek.com/extras/patriotact.php
Should we sacrifice some of our civil liberties to help fight the war on terror?
http://www.balancedpolitics.org/civil_liberties.htm
BalancedPolitics.org was developed to present a logical, balanced discussion on a number of issues important to society. We try to provide reasoned, critical, non-partisan analysis of both sides of the issue. We try to not let personal feelings or passions enter into the analysis, and we don't limit our thinking by political correctness.
Stem Cell Research
The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics
http://www.stemcellresearch.org/
Stem Cell Research News
http://www.stemcellresearchnews.com/
International Society for Stem Cell Research
http://www.isscr.org/index.htm
The International Society for Stem Cell Research is an independent, nonprofit organization established to promote and foster the exchange and dissemination of information and ideas relating to stem cells, to encourage the general field of research involving stem cells and to promote professional and public education in all areas of stem cell research and application.
Welfare
Welfare Law Center
http://www.welfarelaw.org/
The Welfare Law Center works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support -- public funding provided on the basis of need -- is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development.Welfare Information Network
http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/win/
A project of The Finance Project, WIN is a clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance related to welfare, workforce development, and other human and community services.Public Welfare Foundation
http://www.publicwelfare.org/index.asp
The Public Welfare Foundation is a non-governmental grant-making organization dedicated to supporting organizations that provide services to disadvantaged populations and work for lasting improvements in the delivery of services that meet basic human needs.
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Updated last - 21 July 2004