Sentences with phrase «national abortion rights»

She served as president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, president of the National Abortion Rights Action Committee, consultant for the United Nation Fund for Population Activities, chair of Population Action International, trustee of the Planned Parenthood Foundation, and U.S. ambassador to Norway.

Apparently I am not the only Factcheck.org reader to contact the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and ask questions about Factcheck.org's negative review of NARAL's ad campaign against the Supreme Court nomination of Judge John Roberts.

Factcheck.org, (read their mission here) reports that it has investigated the National Abortion Rights Action League's national campaign against the Supreme Court nomination of Judge John Roberts.

(Witness this pro - Alito / pro-Bush press release today by the Liberty Counsel, a group with close ties to Rev. Jerry Falwell that refused to support Miers, and this anti - Alito / anti-Bush press release today by the National Abortion Rights Action League.)

Marshall also received the support of the National Abortion Rights Action League, who said Marshall has shown «dedication to and support of reproductive rights issues» during her two terms in office.

The A.F.L. - C.I.O., the Conservative Party, the Sierra Club, the National Abortion Rights Action League, legislators of both parties and Change New York, the anti-tax group, were united against the measure,» wrote Richard Perez - Pena, for the New York Times, on November 5, 1997, just before the con con vote that year.

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They, along with others, founded NARAL, the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws (later changed to the National Abortion Rights Action League).

When Governor Clinton assured the Gay and Lesbian Alliance and the National Abortion Rights Action League of his wholehearted support, however, he was not pandering to extremists but «moving the Democrats to the moderate center.»

Not exact matches

Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

For single women, pick a fight over contraception with the Catholic Church and run a national convention in which the centrality of abortion rights startled even seasoned observers.

I often meet abortion rights advocates who honestly thought that the national controversy over abortion would simply melt away within a few years of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

It was the Catholic Church that launched National Right to Life and the rhetoric of Jerry Falwell that compelled Christians across the nation to keep abortion at the forefront of their agenda.

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.»

Even before Roe v. Wade, he wrote and spoke against abortion on demand and served as president of the National Right to Life Committee.

«Anti-abortion activists accuse Obama of «supporting infanticide,» and the National Right to Life Committee says he's conducted a «four - year effort to cover up his full role in killing legislation to protect born - alive survivors of abortions.»

Embracing an apparent relativism and anti-intellectualism, Prof. Smolin writes: «Even if we immediately restored the preeminence of natural rights / natural law discourse to our national jurisprudence and politics, abortion rights activists would still find ways of justifying the abortion right in that mode of discourse, just as prior generations justified the enslavement of African Americans through invoking God, the nature of things, and the Bible.»

These agents include people like Larry Pratt, a far - right Washington lobbyist on guns and abortion whose less savory affiliations led to his resignation as national cochairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign.

(Examples, in addition to the statements on abortion cited above, include a 1970 LCA statement on ecology, a 1979 UCC statement on human rights and at least two statements by the National Council of Churches — a 1979 statement on energy and a 1986 statement on genetic science.)

Just because pro-choice advocates make these arguments does not mean that courts (the same courts that are ready to overrule Roe) are likely to discover abortion rights under a statute that does not even mention abortion and that was enacted with the support of pro-life groups like the National Association of Evangelicals and the Mormon Church.

Black church people receive limited guidance from their national judicatories on such issues as abortion, homosexuality, capital punishment, women's rights.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Thomas Perez said earlier this year that abortion rights are a «non-negotiable» for Democrats, and urged the party to speak with «one voice» on the lightning rod issue.

Stan is confused because he thinks Wallis is a stalking horse for James Dobson, the National Right to Life Committee and all the other pro-life signatories of «Come Let us Reason Together,» while I am confused because I have this crazy idea that Wallis, while «personally opposed» to abortion does not want to legally impose.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

With the same dynamic, the «Christian Right» is tagged with the responsibility for unsettling our national politics by injecting the issues of abortion and school prayer.

On the whole, those who want the national government to insure individual rights support abortion rights, gay rights, and the right to die and believe that the public schools should be religiously neutral.

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If we measure left and right by support for or opposition to abortion and Bill Clinton, which is a reasonable measure in this case, twelve of the groups represented are very far left indeed — including Catholics for a Free Choice, Human Rights Campaign (a leading gay rights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive CRights Campaign (a leading gay rights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Crights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

The Nevada Test Site is the focus for religiously based national public action, for instance, and struggles over gay rights and abortion are endemic everywhere.

«Federal taxpayer subsidies are helping pay for over 1,000 health plans that cover abortion on demand, and [last week's] Supreme Court decision underscores that only Congress can put a stop to that,» said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

Gun control, abortion, affirmative action, should Nixon have been impeached, should national guard officers have been punished for the Kent State massacre of 1970, it was all right there.

«Planned Parenthood now performs more than a third of all abortions in the United States and continued to be its biggest defender in the legislature and the courts,» National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) concluded in its annual report, released last week.

«Not since Congress voted to ban the brutal partial - birth abortion method has a more important piece of pro-life legislation come before Congress,» said Susan Muskett of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).

«It is stomach - churning to hear a top doctor for the national Planned Parenthood organization admit, on videotape, that Planned Parenthood abortionists can and will alter late abortion procedures to facilitate the harvesting of intact baby body parts — she specifically mentioned hearts, lungs, livers, even intact heads — in order to fill specific pre-orders,» said National Right to Life president Carol Tobias in a stnational Planned Parenthood organization admit, on videotape, that Planned Parenthood abortionists can and will alter late abortion procedures to facilitate the harvesting of intact baby body parts — she specifically mentioned hearts, lungs, livers, even intact heads — in order to fill specific pre-orders,» said National Right to Life president Carol Tobias in a stNational Right to Life president Carol Tobias in a statement.

Noonan served on the board of the National Right to Life Committee for many years, and readers who want to see how he addressed abortion's moral and legal dimensions should read the elegant arguments in his short book, A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seabortion's moral and legal dimensions should read the elegant arguments in his short book, A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the SeAbortion in America in the Seventies.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

Paladino has been under attack by abortion - rights advocates since expressing his extremely conservative opinion on choice on national TV shortly after his Sept. 14 GOP primary win.

The question of abortion rights as a litmus test for Democrats roiled the party in early 2017, when Bernie Sanders and Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez campaigned on behalf of Omaha mayoral candidate Heath Mello.

National Federation of Republican Assemblies started the «RINO Hunters» Club», whom they believe to be too moderate on such issues as taxes, gun rights, and abortion.

Dede Scozzafava, an assemblywoman who now works for Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was the endorsed Republican candidate, but was rejected by many national Republican groups for her positions in favor of the Employee Free Choice Act, a union - favored measure known as «card check,» and for abortion rights.

Rasmussen Poll finds majority believes abortion morally wrong, gradual increase in number who self - identify as pro-life National Right to Life News

NARAL Pro-Choice NY is out with a statement this morning that slams Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's GOP / Conservative opponent Joe DioGuardi's views on abortion rights, calling his opposition to choice — even in cases of rape and incest — «well outside the values of New Yorkers... and far beyond the national mainstream.»

«What you see with the local leadership of Mark Poloncarz and Jerry Zellner is taking the mantra of the national Democratic Party and making it a primary issue,» he said of abortion rights.

While Lhota painted himself as a fiscal conservative, he sought distance from national Republicans on social issues by reiterating his support of abortion rights and same - sex marriage.

And as both federal and state legislators grapple with increased restrictions on abortion, a new national poll indicates Americans have mixed reactions to some of the moves being made right now in state houses and the nation's capital.

One of the many groups that has been spending time and money to influence those two races is Naral, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League.

They included his 1983 inaugural, his famous keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, a talk at Yale University in 1985, and of course, his defense of abortion rights at the University of Notre Dame that defined how «Cuomo wrestled with his Catholicism even as he became richly tied to its intellectual traditions and spiritual message.»

The National Institute for Reproductive Health, an abortion - rights group, said it was «appalled and horrified» at the alleged behavior of a man it honored as a «champion of choice» just last week at a luncheon.

Suozzi backers say he received a 100 percent rating from Planned Parenthood when he last ran for county executive in 2013, and that the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League also endorsed Suozzi, saying, «Tom Suozzi supports women and treats our decisions with dignity.»