Sentences with phrase «abortion laws for»

The RR's and other believer's attempts at changing abortion laws for everyone is just another example of their collective hypocrisy!

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They ranged from raising the minimum wage, passing gun safety laws, paid family leave, equal pay for women, and protecting access to «safe and legal abortions.»

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.

Massachusetts is beefing up security around abortion clinics and scrambling for a legal fix after the U.S. Supreme Court voided the state's buffer zone law that kept protesters 35 feet away, saying it violated freedom of speech.

So the republicans WILL pass laws to stop the rich from going outside the U.S. for abortions.

Thus, debates between, for example, Roman Catholic natural law theorists and secular feminist legal theorists over abortion are, for Posner, a waste of time, for neither theoretical approach possesses the tools to persuade anyone of contrary views.

And such groups provided Catholic support for the president in 2009, when he faced conservative Catholic criticism over his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, and in 2010, when the bishops opposed Obama's health care law, alleging that it left the door open to taxpayer - funded abortion.

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.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

As for this issue, it is not just about contraception, it includes abortion which is a direct violation of our Declaration of Independence, but more important, a direct violation of Gods Law.

The minute to bring religion in as your justification for abortion laws (or any laws honestly) the whole argument becomes invalid and should be tossed out due to a seperation of church and state.

Sye notes that a bill called the «No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,» which would place new restrictions on the healthcare law President Obama signed last year, was the third House resolution introduced this year, which he calls a testament to new GOP fervor on social issues.

Obama rescinded the ban on federal funds for overseas abortion providers and signed a healthcare law that many conservatives say subsidizes abortion, though the law's supporters say it respects the federal ban on abortion funding.

Further on he leaps into the Cuomo Straddle with astonishing agility for a man of his years: he was personally opposed to abortion but in his public office he had to respect the law of the land, blah blah blah.

In terms of both constituency and leadership, evangelicals are in the forefront of the movement for more protective attitudes and laws regarding abortion.

A couple of research papers indicated only a decrease in abortion rates that is statistically insignificant (i.e. it could have been due to chance rather than the change in the law), but these have tended to analyse data on abortion rates for all ages, not specifically teenage abortion rates.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed a new law that makes it illegal for doctors in the state to perform abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome.

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).

As I was preparing for class, I learned that Mississippi's voters had rejected the so - called «Personhood Amendment,» which would have outlawed abortion in the state by affirming as a matter of law that human life begins at conception.

Its law firm, Liberty Counsel (which has offices on campus), said the healthcare law was paving the way for «forced abortion and compulsory sterilization.»

Christian politicians justified their support for this law with the fallacy that the new law would end illegal abortions and prevent full legalisation as in the United States.

As he makes clear, for the most part those dealings were ham «fisted, especially when it came to Washington's efforts to establish abortion as a «human right» in international law.

(Though his note on Wesley's engagement with slavery, on the basis of natural law, has significant implications for contemporary Methodism's engagement with abortion.)

As for the law, I think opposing abortion on principles (religious or other) but as long as no church is forced by the state to preform a ceremony.

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.

Thus there are articles on family, family law, marriage and divorce, mut» ah (marriage for a limited term), polygyny and puberty rites, sexuality, and even on clitoridectomy and abortion.

I don't care for abortion but under the laws of the land... women can have them.

What has emerged of late, however, is something that natural law adherents opposed to elective abortion have long suspected: The real reason behind the liberal enthusiasm for elective abortion is precisely that it is «elective.»

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

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.»

Justice Antonin Scalia, perhaps the leading exponent of this criticism, emphasizes the purely procedural quality of the argument by declaring abortion, for example, to be a matter entirely outside the purview of constitutional law and, therefore, beyond the jurisdiction of courts.

«In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia,» the Pope says, «it is... never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.»

Most recently, federal courts of appeal for the Second and Ninth Circuits» the latter court relying explicitly on the abortion jurisprudence of Roe and its progeny» have invalidated laws prohibiting physician - assisted suicide in New York and California.

We're a nation of laws that protect people from (for example) pedophile Christian priests and Christian terrorists who blow up abortion clinics.

Personally, for instance, I would contend that deliberately induced abortion is wrong and that that conclusion can be reached on the basis of «utilitarian» (i.e., natural law) analysis; my arguments, however, would not be so clear that no sincere person could reject them without being suspected of perversity.

On a final note, by implementing $ 1 / month abortions, [11] Obamacare has upended longstanding law prohibiting the use of taxpayer money for abortions, [12] by requiring that taxpayers fund abortions through private pay insurance.

Following the McCain - Obama debate in which abortion was addressed, Kmiec wrote in the Los Angeles Times: «Sometimes the law must simply leave space for the exercise of individual judgement, because our religious or scientific differences of opinion are for the moment too profound to be bridged collectively.

Our abortion law is responsible for the killing of 500 babies each day in the UK.

He also called for changes to the law that allow abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, adding that the law is «wrong and it has to change.»

Catholic schools, for example, used to think of academic freedom as in the service of the truth we find in natural law, the truth about abortion, the relational person, and so forth.

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.

The pro-abortion media persist in reporting that the law permits abortion in the early months of pregnancy and only for compelling reasons, and many prefer to think that is so.

- the protection of life from the moment of conception (although the law still allows for abortion);

That one action by Senator Kennedy paved the way for a judicial appointment that almost surely was the key to preserving a constitutional right to abortion on demand and to the overturning of U.S. laws protecting marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

«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.

One doctor has been disciplined under the law for refusing to refer for a sex - selective abortion.

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

For like the practice of slavery, and like the Jim Crow laws of the not - so - distant past, the abortion issue raises the most fundamental questions of justice — questions that can not be avoided, and that can not be be resolved by judicial fiat.