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Santiago Copello

In November 1945, he prohibited Argentine Catholics from supporting parties or candidates who promoted the separation of Church and State, removing religion from public schools, or legalizing civil divorce in the February 1946 elections.


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Adoption

Likely contributing factors in the 1960s and 1970s include a decline in the fertility rate, associated with the introduction of the pill, the completion of legalization of artificial birth control methods, the introduction of federal funding to make family planning services available to the young and low income, and the legalization of abortion.

Alex de Renzy

In October 1969 he went to Denmark to attend Sex 69, the first porn trade show hosted in Copenhagen after the legalization of adult pornography there.

Banri Kaieda

According to a Gay Japan News 2009 election questionare, he supported legalization of gay marriage in Japan and indicated a desire to put support for gay rights into Democratic Party of Japan's party platform.

Catholic Church and abortion in the United States

There has been controversy in the United States over whether Catholic politicians who promote legalization of abortion should be denied communion.

Chapman University School of Law

John C. Eastman, former Dean of Chapman University of Law and current professor of constitutional law is the Chair of the Board of the National Organization for Marriage, a non-profit organization committed to preventing the legalization of same-sex marriage.

Daniel Hamburg

Hamburg was arrested outside of a Wal-Mart store in Ukiah, California in 2000 while protesting for the legalization of marijuana.

General Post Office

The Royal Mail (which, following its legalization, held a nominal monopoly on such delivery services) moved its headquarters to Lombard Street in the City in 1678 to better curtail such practices.

Geoffrey R. Stone

He has argued that five sitting Catholic judges effectively prevented the legalization of partial-birth abortion in Gonzales v. Carhart.

Ittihad

In addition to propagating the legalization of the Sharia law within the Muslim communities, the goal of the Ittihadists was to prevent the formation of independent nation-states on the Muslim-populated territories of the Russian Empire.

Martijn

Vereniging Martijn, a Dutch association that advocates the acceptance of pedophilia and legalization of sexual relationships between adults and children

Non-voluntary euthanasia

Arguing for legalization, Len Doyal, a professor of medical ethics and former member of the ethics committee of the British Medical Association, said in 2006 that "proponents of voluntary euthanasia should support non-voluntary euthanasia under appropriate circumstances and with proper regulation".

Organ trade

Legalization of human organ trading is opposed by a variety of human rights groups like the Organs Watch, a group established by medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes who was instrumental in exposing illegal international organ selling rings.

Prostitution in the Netherlands

In the 1990s, Dutch attitudes supported the legalization of prostitution: in a 1997 survey, 73 percent of Dutch citizens favored legalization of brothels, 74 percent said that prostitution was an "acceptable job," and in a 1999 poll 78 percent felt that prostitution is a job like any other job (polls cited in Weitzer 2000, p. 178).

Raymond Turmel

He is the brother of John Turmel, and holds similar views on issues such as monetary reform and marijuana legalization.

Ron Claiborne

He covered a wide variety of stories for ABC News, topics includes the legalization of gay marriages in Massachusetts; the Boston Catholic Church scandal in 2002; the Elian Gonzales custody battle; the Yugosalavia conflict in Belgrade; the Persian Gulf War and the both the 1992 and 2008 U.S. Presidential campaigns where he covered Senator John McCain's campaign.


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