Sentences with word «abortifacient»

The enormous toxicity of these drugs to the pregnant woman, however, and the fact that they produced massive congenital deformities in the fetuses who somehow survived the pharmacological assault, virtually precluded their use as abortifacients.

It is able, contrary to the opinions of Sarah E. Hinlicky and R. Albert Mohler, Jr., to establish the immorality of contraception independent of whether the contraceptive method has abortifacient effects.

In a statement released today on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York and president of the Conference, responded to last Friday's proposed revision of the HHS contraception / sterilization / abortifacient mandate by saying, in....

We now have a situation where a Catholic hospital will be seen as condoning referrals for abortion and approving the full range of family planning services including abortifacients such as the morning - after pill.

«The first iteration of the mandate in 2011 created an onerous burden for institutions that conscientiously object to providing contraceptives and / or abortifacients for religious reasons, as it contained only a very narrow exemption that applied to a small number of churches,» stated the council.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, passed in response to the Supreme Court's ruling — the law that protected Hobby Lobby from forced coverage of abortifacient contraceptives — is now opposed energetically by previously strong progressive supporters like the ACLU.

The contraceptive known as the diaphragm (or» Dutch Cap») is not abortifacient in any way.

I believe the pill and morning after pill are called abortifacients because they can have the effect of preventing a fertilized egg (a child) from implanting in the uterus.

Dr. Etienne - Emile Beaulieu, the French scientist who developed the RU - 486 abortifacient pill, has declared, «My intent is to eliminate the word «abortion» because that word is as traumatic as the fact itself of abortion.»

This is all based on the belief that Plan B, Ella and two intrauterine contraceptives are in fact abortifacient; therefore, it became a «religious right to exclude such contraceptives from ACA coverage» issue.

Also, your statement «Abortifacients do NOT cause abortions.

Instead of supporting contraception blindly and carelessly relying on abortifacients when she breaks the rules, she ought to be screaming bloody murder, demanding to know why she got cheated out of some of the most important practical instruction on living as a Catholic.

But you are denying some birth control methods are abortifacients by denying they can cause «an implanted fertilized fetus to abort».

John Jenkins of Notre Dame and John Garvey of Catholic University, for a missed opportunity to speak the whole truth to power about the proposed new HHS mandate that would force all health insurers to cover abortifacient drugs under the rubric of «contraceptives» in «preventive» health coverage for women.

The legal battle to ban abortion, however, is not by any means defeated with this report of a medical abortifacient, and it may in fact be helped.

Depending on how the justices rule, certain institutions may find themselves exempt from the controversial HHS mandate that requires them to arrange for the provision of contraception, sterilization, and certain abortifacient drugs.

Science should soon yield a satisfactory birth - control pill, device or technique and / or an acceptable abortifacient.

For over two years scores of litigants have been challenging the HHS mandate, which forces nearly all non-grandfathered employee health plans to change their terms, if they do not already cover sterilization, contraception, and abortifacient pharmaceuticals as «free preventive care» for female employees and dependents.

«The killing of an unborn child through abortion via abortifacients or any other means is an intrinsic evil, a sin that goes against God's plan for our salvation.

But the owners of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, whose cases were decided together today, considered four of those contraceptives potential abortifacients due to the way they can prevent implantation of a fertilized egg in a mother's womb.

But those who claim some methods of contraception are abortifacients give it that classification becaue the ending of pregnacy occurs after fertilization.

In high doses, carambola has abortifacient properties.

You get the Obama administration's contraceptive / abortifacient mandate on steroids and a full - scale legal assault by Clinton Administration 3.0 on the capacity of religious institutions to be themselves as they understand themselves to be: communities of religious conviction with a right to their own moral integrity, not mere instruments for delivering whatever the government deems to be a public service or a public good.

This edict seeks to bring religious groups to heel by requiring all employers to cover contraception and abortifacients in their health - care plans.

Abortifacients do NOT cause abortions.

Tooley's memory is awfully short if he has already forgotten the recent legal challenges to the HHS mandate requiring employer coverage of abortifacient contraceptives.

Moreover, many forms of contraception occasionally work as abortifacients, by preventing the implantation of the newly conceived human being in his or her mother's uterus.

In their filing attorney's wrote the mandate, «runs roughshod over Wheaton's religious beliefs, and the beliefs of millions of other Americans, by forcing it to provide health insurance coverage for abortifacient drugs and related education and counseling.»

At a recent conference in which I participated at the Georgetown Law Center, a number of speakers and participants described the HHS mandate as the necessary requirement that will liberate women from the «coercion» of the Church that seeks to restrict their access to free contraception» including abortifacients» and sterilization.

In the fourth century B.C. Hippocrates, whose writings prohibited the use of abortifacients, nevertheless is said to have suggested «leaping with the heels to the buttocks for the sake of expulsion.»

Has anyone cited this passage in briefs challenging the contraceptive / abortifacient mandate?

But Podesta and his candidate want to force a religious order of Catholic women to cooperate in the provision of contraceptives and abortifacients; they want to compel small businesses to cater to same - sex marriage ceremonies; and they want physicians to refer troubled patients for «transgender» treatment — all against the Catholic understanding of the right to act on one's conscience (in these cases, one's rightly formed conscience).

With the current regime in power and the push to force Catholic organizations to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives and abortifacients, I'd say we're moving in the opposite direction.

Then women themselves are «abortifacients» when they have a period and a fertilized egg simply gets flushed away.

The principle of Moral Cooperation with Evil (similar to the Principle of the Double Effect) states that for us (or anyone) to go along with an intrinsically evil act (such as paying for contraceptions, sterilizations, and abortifacients, which we DO believe to be evil), 5 things are necessary:

The Catholic bishops of the United States have vowed to continue to resist the HHS Mandate, which forces Catholics and others to violate their consciences regarding grave issues of the human person and human life by requiring coverage of abortifacients, sterilization, and contraceptives.

In other anti-abortion news, the movement is none too pleased over President Bush's signal earlier this week that he would support over-the-counter access to «Plan B,» the abortifacient commonly known as the «morning - after pill.»

But what makes the Obama mandate for the coverage of contraception by Catholic employers different» in both its original form and in the so - called «accommodation»» is the directness of the Church's financing of contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization.

Charles Krauthammer called it an «accounting gimmick,» as did Paul Rahe of Hillsdale College, writing for National Review Online, where he said Obama's compromise was a «farce,» a «snare and a delusion» designed to permit «bishops, priests, and nuns to save face while, in fact, paying for the contraception and abortifacients that the insurance companies will be required to provide.»

Writing in the Winter 2007 issue, Rev. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P., professor of biology at Providence College, and an expert pro-life Catholic bioethicist, concludes his article,» Is Plan B an Abortifacient?