The mandatory institutionalization of pregnancy and birth and the obligation to attend an ANC in order to obtain the child's vaccination booklet appeared to be a major obstacle to the vaccination of children in the villages concerned.
This is the kind of logic that allowed New Hampshire's Republican House Speaker William O'Brien to argue that it is not the Catholic Church's obligation to provide birth control within its various organizations because Catholics do not believe in birth control.
It ballooned a family of credit instruments like collaterized debt obligations and collaterized loan obligations which, in turn, gave birth to really fancy derivatives like collaterized debt obligations squared or CDOs that invested in other CDOs.
In a high-profile case before the Supreme Court, the Hobby Lobby chain of stores is demanding to be free of its obligation to cover birth control because of the moral objections of the owners.
Many feminist authors have noted that the typical nationalist suggestion that women have a moral obligation to give birth to new members of the nation and to nurture them for the sake of the nation clashes with both the autonomy and the privacy of these women (Yuval-Davis 1997, Moller-Okin 1999, 2002 and 2005, and the discussion in the volume on Okin, Satz et al. 2009).
But to concede that there is more to freedom than consent, that there is such a thing as nonviolent exploitation, that people shouldn't be rewarded and punished for accidents of birth, that we have moral obligations that extend beyond those we contractually incur — this is to concede that the entire Nozickian edifice is structurally unsound.
Increasing professional obligations after the birth of his first son in 1987 coincided with a reduction in his literary output.
Officially, volunteer befrienders are only expected to give up three hours of their time a week, and are under no obligation to attend the birth itself.
And with live birth, these animals were freed of the obligation to return to land to nest.
From birth, Wiwa had a sense of hereditary obligation: his full name means "In troubled times, I am fearless -- the first son of Wiwa".
