Clearly, strict
abortion laws do not stop abortions from happening, but can make them less safe by causing delay and restricting access.
Not exact matches
If the
law forbids some types of
abortions, sometimes it is not clear what types of
abortions fall under what category, and so they decide not to
do it all.»
But Kasich
did sign into
law a measure banning
abortions after 20 weeks — another controversial regulation that could potentially brush up against previous court rulings, even though Kasich cited Supreme Court precedent for his veto of the «heartbeat» legislation.
Did they see similar declines when they liberalized their
abortion laws?
The number one issue is
abortion on every agenda, yet this is an issue which is not stopped by legislation, it is stopped by attacking poverty, by increasing love for children, by accepting everything a sinner
does — instead the goal is secular
laws, shaming women with ultrasounds.
And, of course, they whine like crazy when we don't build their dogma into our
laws, like the ones on
abortion or gay marriage.
Regarding Amy Wax's discussion of
abortion and child support: As long as the
law guarantees to a woman the absolute, unqualified and unconditional right, regardless of age or status, to give birth anonymously (as some 400 French women
do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),....
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Democrats» sweeping healthcare reform
law does not fund
abortions, and that no president's administration has since the Hyde Amendment passed more than 30 years ago.
I don't think you can be a pro-life feminist and argue that women need to be condescended to and «informed of what they're
doing» as though they don't already know (cf.
laws that institute mandatory waiting periods so they can «think it over,» which puts an untenable burden on those who have to travel for
abortion procedures and
do not have the money to
do so).
The slope of the decline in maternal mortality «
did not appear to be altered by the change in
abortion law,» according to the researchers.
Further, Gov. Cuomo, along with many others today,
do not simply «deal with the
law as it is» but energetically work to keep the
law as it is with respect to the unlimited
abortion license.
And no I don't believe in
abortion, and I don't believe the
laws should protect and favor the wealthy, and big corporations either.
Yet, of course, Neuhaus
did not allow that grace to Mario Cuomo or others who say they are «personally opposed» to
abortion but have to deal with the
law as it is.
Does this stop Christians from tying up the supreme court with
law suits concerning school prayer,
abortion, gay marriage, or numerous other absurdities?
Don't want an
abortion, don't have one but don't think your personal belief trumps the
laws that you must bide by in this world and please don't think they deserve respect when obviously they are being use to step on other peoples rights to freedom over their own body.
Spain's new
abortion law, as LifeSiteNews reported in an earlier dispatch, «abolishes penalties for all
abortions during the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy» and «allows minors to obtain
abortions without parental permission, although they must first inform their parents of their intention to
do so.»
Abortion should be
law for all a woman is
doing when she aborts is terminating God's building being built.
And the truth of the matter, most slugs making noise about
abortion are only concerned with tax money being used, which in of itself clearly shows they
do not know anything about the
law, and the use of tax funds for
abortion, because it is already illegal.
I don't care for
abortion but under the
laws of the land... women can have them.
Anika Rahman, Director of the International Program for CRLP, claimed, in a letter to the Washington Times (August 31, 2001), that «our lawsuit
does not assert that the right to
abortion is a principle of international customary
law.»
On these issues, Catholics enter covenants and have shared experiences and intuitions with Jews, secular rationalists and liberal Protestants who
do not find the case for outlawing
abortion to be part of their reading of natural
law.
Why else
do they spend so much time and money on campaigns to overturn
abortion laws, and fighting proper s.ex ed in high schools?
... not to mention the fact that «murder» is a legal term and the
law does not consider
abortion murder; you have, once again; proven
abortion ≠ murder.
«All they're asking for is a narrow exemption from the
law that says they don't have to provide drugs they believe cause
abortions,» Hobby Lobby attorney Kyle Duncan, a general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told CNN affiliate KFOR in November.
But from this point, it
does not necessarily follow that I would have the
law try to protect the embryo at every moment, or seek an «absolute prohibition» on
abortion.
As I said in my own piece, people of my persuasion would
do handstands if we could enact Wilson's policy today and have the
law restrict
abortions beyond eight to ten weeks.
Likewise, it either requires malicious intent or outright stupidity to claim that the health - care
law funds
abortions, when it very clearly
does not.
Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where
abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the
law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize
abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach
done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing
abortions my two humble cents
But the pope
did not declare Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union illegitimate, despite the genocide and mass murders, which were surely as much violations of the moral
law as
abortion.
Let there be no mistake about the impact of the Roe and
Doe decisions: they
did not «liberalize»
abortion law; they abolished
abortion law in all fifty states.
If
abortion is the litmus test of a moral
law that can not be violated by positive
law, then all of the Western democracies that legalize
abortion» and
do so by the legislative rather than judicial process» are illegitimate.
Very restrictive
abortion laws go against the consciences of many, but the lack of such
laws does not require behavior that goes against the consciences of others.
Overturning a lower court's decision that ruled that the
laws unconstitutionally limited access to
abortion in the state, New Orleans - based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals judges wrote, «on its face
does not impose an undue burden on the life and health of a woman.»
This is why I don't think most Christians who demand
laws against
abortion are sincere about it being about «respect for human life».
Just as
abortion, gay rights, and baseball doping will have no effect on the economy, illegal invaders, the wars we are locked in, or the housing market, neither will the candidate's religious beliefs (counting any religion that advocates the murder of others, the subjugating of women, and the establishment of it's own set of
laws — though I have no idea or what major religion would
do so...).
What I
did was refer to some state
laws, undeniably on the statute books, that allow
abortion in many or all cases.
I think the new
law actually
does mention
abortions.
Assertions, whether from treaty - monitoring bodies, or
abortion - promoting organizations, that
abortion is a part of health
do not reflect the
law, nor that they are not the authors of international
law.
Birth control and
abortion is common practice; the hospitals can provide «sinner buildings» where the doctors and staff who don't have a moral problem providing such services can
do so and keep the hospital in compliance with the
law..
I sure as heck
do NOT want religious people to attack the
laws allowing
abortion to remain legal.
But English
law doesn't exclude that as a reason for getting
abortion, because the
law only requires two doctors to certify that the woman will be harmed mentally or physically by having the child.
«Research has shown that life - affirming
laws do have an impact on lowering the number of
abortions, and with all the life - affirming
laws passed since 2010, we have a reason to celebrate the number of lives saved and women protected as legislators worked to defend them from a predatory and rarely accountable
abortion industry,» AUL Acting President Clark Forsythe said in a written statement.
Here the Pope says yes: «When it is not possible to overturn or completely abrogate a pro-
abortion law, an elected official, whose absolute personal opposition to procured
abortion was well known, could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm
done by such a
law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality.»
Said St. Augustine: «The
law does not provide that the act [
abortion] pertains to homicide.
After all, the Court could have come down, as the German Constitutional Court
did in a 1975 decision interpreting Germany's Basic
Law, in precisely the opposite way — invalidating a legislatively enacted liberalization of
abortion.
Maybe he is saying that those who truly believe
abortion is wrong should
do less to make themselves feel good (pushing for anti-
abortion laws that just drive
abortion underground) and more to actually decrease
abortion (push to make birth control more available and to improve the economic situation of the poor).
If the Court
does not claim to act merely in its own name, but for the common good and the rule of
law, how then should citizens regard the effort to link
abortion with the legitimacy of the Court itself and thus, it would seem, with the legitimacy of our current political regime?
They want «In God We Trust» on our money (1954), they want evolution banned from schools while allowing a REVISED pledge of allegiance that originally
did not include the phrase «under God», they want
laws that reflect Christian morality (
Abortion, same s3x marriage, etc.), and they treat as outcasts anyone who doesn't align with their particular religious view.
Finally, HOBBY LOBBY's attorney said, «All they're asking for is a narrow exemption from the
law that says they don't have to provide drugs they believe cause
abortions.»
The professors don't like
abortion, 70 per cent deeming it immoral when a married woman resorts to it to stop having children; but only 44 per cent want
laws against it.