For women surveying a landscape of banished husbands or perpetual boys, the biological rationale offers little solace.
That, she added, is not the rationale offered by Alabama, whose care here she described as "substandard even compared to the general standard in correctional systems".
The rationale offered for DOMA at the time was that Congress was trying to encourage responsible procreation and child-bearing, to bolster the institution of heterosexual marriage, and to defend traditional morality.
The most powerful rationale offered for Clinton's Presidential candidacy will be satisfied by the fact of her election: the long legacy of the baby boom, in which cultural change was encoded in politics, will be secure.
Whatever you think of these views, they cannot be fairly characterized as extreme; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, among many others, has questioned the rationale offered by the court to justify Roe v. Wade.
When I have watched documentaries about saving animals and plant life, often the primary rationale offered for their preservation is that miraculous cures may be found for people, and that by seeing other species in the wild we find peace and harmony in ourselves.
Could there be anything to the paternal rationale offered in Johnny Cash's song, the one that stopped Sue from killing his father: "I knew you'd have to get tough or die, and it's the name that helped to make you strong"?
The Germans listened to Mozart and Beethoven and then murdered children, and this was not a cognitive dislocation from which we couldn't suffer but the eternal rationale offered by the terrified: we can't protect what really matters if we don't do things that we wish we didn't have to.
A professor from Yale Law School, Lea Brilmayer, undermined a main rationale offered for an amendment, that the "full faith and credit" clause of the Constitution could force states that do not allow gay marriages to recognize those from states where they are legal.
It is typical of such appeals to lists that there is no rationale offered for why items are on the list.
