"As a result, these women often lose their babies and at the same time they also lose part of their dignity, because they can no longer control their bladders".
He never stripped them of their dignity.
Abuse robs a child of their dignity.
"We can't obligate women to carry the heavy consequence of being unable to decide [to end a pregnancy] because of a law, because that tramples their dignity, prolongs their suffering, and risks their lives," Bachelet said as she announced the bill.
I say misplaced, because to preserve their dignity and their legacy, they should have heeded the voices of their constituents.
Many are concerned about what the last phase of their lives will be like, not merely because of fears that their dying might involve them in great suffering, but also because of the desire to retain their dignity, and as much control over their lives as possible, during this phase.
In Japan, even when they believe they have good relationship with their wives or other family members, men tend not to talk about serious problems, such as business failure and debts due to gambling and/or other reasons to which negative social stigma is attached, at home, because of their wish to maintain dignity and avoid losing face.
The new law defines harassment as "imposing on someone, in a repeated way, words or actions that have a sexual connotation" and either "affecting the person's dignity because of their degrading or humiliating nature" or putting him or her in an "intimidating, hostile or offensive situation".
In 2012, France passed a law that criminalized sexual sexual harassment all together, defined as "the imposition of a person, repeatedly remarks or behavior of a sexual nature that is impairing its dignity because of their character or degrading humiliating, or create a situation against her intimidating, hostile or offensive".
Surely nobody – indeed, no body – deserves to lose their dignity or their life just because of what they look like?
"Unquestionably, I think, we created in this culture some Iraqis that then had to act because of their value systems against us in terms of revenge, possibly because there were casualties on their side and also because of the impact on their dignity and respect," he said.
