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It allows abortion only if the life of the patient is threatened, and even then, doctors have to prove that they were justified in proceeding rather than prosecutors’ having to do so.

Folt justified the decision by citing unspecified safety threats.

In other cases, as Beyerstein noted, it's people who long to have their bigotries justified, and so choose lies over facts.

Glasgow City Council justified the stickers as a way to "reach out to families" where it was uncertain who had responsibility for maintaining the memorial.

He argued that most of the discussion online had focused not on the issues at the centre of the case - whether a police officer was legally justified in firing the fatal shot, given the situation - but on whether the police were racist.