It seemed like, once you removed religious morality from the equation, there really wasn't a good reason to not have an abortion if you didn't want to be pregnant.
But Trilling complained of reductivism: the statistical method removed sex from religion, morality, social life — everything that, in the past, had given it meaning.
Ms. Smith's intention here seems to be fidelity to the original, so much so that the relationship between Lieutenant Cable and Liat, Bloody Mary's daughter, which begins as a sexual encounter arranged by Mary, feels strikingly inappropriate; we are, after all, far, far removed from the wartime morality that is at issue here.
So he had done his best, to the exasperation of some readers, to normalise the incest – to remove it from morality.
The columnist Polly Toynbee wrote on Aug. 12: The small-staters blame the collapse of moral values, school indiscipline and feral beasts without fathers or consciences, as if removing government allows morality to flourish.
We'd be looking at a lot of empty plinths if every offender against modern morality were to be removed.
In his 1998 book "Consilience," he proposed that many human activities, from economics to morality, needed to be temporarily removed from the hands of the reigning specialists and given to biologists to work out a proper evolutionary foundation.
Claflin specifically asked to audition for the character as it was so far removed from the actor's own experience and morality.
In fact, the problem is that the anti-abortion movement has removed all practicality from the debate and has instead inserted morality, an unwelcome and uninvited interloper.
