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Abortion
Contributed by: Joe Devanny Created: 09/29/00;
Should abortion be permitted?
Abortion, Parental Consent
Contributed by: Tom Hamilton Created: 12/02/02;
Should parental consent be required for underage pregnant women to have abortions?
Abortion, Partial Birth
Contributed by: Tom Hamilton Created: 12/02/02;
Should partial-birth abortion be banned?
Academic qualification ensures success in life?
Contributed by: Nisaar Nadiadwala Created: 05/21/09;
Academic qualifications are commonly felt to give a person the best chance of success in life. How far is this true?
Adoption of Children by Same Sex Couples
Contributed by: Eliot Jones Created: 10/27/00;
Should gay couples be given the same legal rights as heterosexuals in adopting children?
Adoption, International
Contributed by: Tara Mounce Created: 11/30/-1;
Should couples be banned from adopting children overseas?
Advertisements do more harm than good
Debatabase Junior Topic
Contributed by: Richard Penny Created: 12/08/07;
Is having widespread advertising good for a society?
Advertising, Targeting of Children
Contributed by: Alastair Endersby Created: 01/04/03;
Should there be a ban on television advertisements aimed at children?
Affirmative action in education
Contributed by: Max Kasriel Created: 09/05/09;
Should universities use positive discrimination to increase diversity?
Afghanistan, Invasion of
Contributed by: Alastair Endersby Created: 02/19/02;
Should the USA and its allies have invaded Afghanistan?
African Affairs, Intervention in
Contributed by: Richard Stupart Created: 11/01/00;
Should African disputes and conflicts be handled by African countries themselves, rather than by external international organisations?
African Languages in African Schools
Contributed by: Richard Stupart Created: 10/31/00;
Should native tongues take precedence in African schools, or should English and other non-African languages be the languages of the school room?
African Union
Contributed by: Ranjan K. Agarwal Created: 05/17/03;
Should countries in Africa become a political and economic union?
Age Discrimination
Contributed by: Nicholas Tan Created: 11/30/-1;
Should age discrimination be made illegal in the workplace?
Age of Consent, Lowering Of
Contributed by: Nicholas Tan Created: 11/30/-1;
Should age of consent laws be made more liberal?
Alcohol
Contributed by: Thomas Dixon Created: 11/13/00;
Should the sale and consumption of alcohol – the world’s favourite drug – be further restricted, or even banned?
Alcohol, Minimum price
Contributed by: Alastair Endersby Created: 02/21/11;
Should governments set a minimum cost per unit of alcohol, in order to set a floor price below which alcohol cannot be sold?
Alternative Vote
Contributed by: Alastair Endersby Created: 06/07/10;
Should the current electoral system be replaced with the Alternative Voting System?
Anarchism
Contributed by: Richard Mott Created: 06/24/01;
Is Anarchism a valuable political ideology?
Animal Experimentation
Contributed by: Thomas Dixon Created: 06/28/00;
Is it morally acceptable to experiment on non-human animals to develop products and medicines that benefit human beings?
Animal Rights
Contributed by: Thomas Dixon Created: 06/30/00;
Do non-human animals have rights?
Animals in Sports and Entertainment
Contributed by: Thomas Dixon Created: 06/30/00;
Should human beings be allowed to use other animals as objects of sport and entertainment?
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