Sentences with phrase «abortifacients in»

Can employers be compelled to include contraceptives and abortifacients in their employee health plans, if their faith teaches it's wrong?

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

Historically, the plant has been used as an abortifacient in folklore medicine and is used as a component of fragrances.

Not exact matches

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.

In place of traditional American liberty based on the principles of limited government, Obamacarians are erecting a bureaucratic state, complete with centralized control, cronyism, ideological impositions, benefits to favored constituencies, ever increasing dependencies, spiced with an anti religion agenda that would force religious non profits and charities to choose between their service missions and following the precepts of their faith (through the Free Birth Control / Sterilization / Abortifacient Rule for now, more later).

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.

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.»

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.

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?

Augros, a professor of philosophy at the Center for Higher Studies in Thornwood, New York, pointed to scientific studies that suggested the active drug in Plan B — levonorgestrel — could function not only as a contraceptive, but as an 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.

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.

«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.

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.

Leaving aside the issue of whether or not EBC may act in an abortifacient way in some cases, every single such study has found that schemes promoting EBC simply do not reduce observed rates of unwanted pregnancies or abortions.

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.»

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.

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.

In particular, he appealed on behalf of those whose religiously informed conscience will not allow them to provide — or to «designate» others to provide for them — sterilization, contraception, and abortifacients.

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I thought that vitamin C is used in herbal medicines (in extremely high doses) as an abortifacient.

In high doses, carambola has abortifacient properties.

This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.

She was the only one of many naturalists and anthropologists active among the indigenous peoples in Africa and the Americas who mentioned extensive use of abortifacients for «menstrual regulation» (population control)....

«a very early use of the new word agnotology, if not its coining, in an article by Linda Schiebinger titled Agnotology and Exotic Abortifacients: The Cultural Production of Ignorance in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World....

And various family planning measures were illegal in the United States at the time — the Comstock Laws outlawed the use of contraceptives and abortifacients.

But their «beliefs,» that emergency contraception and IUDs are abortifacients, aren't rooted in actual science.