Sentences with phrase «abortion legislation»

Iowa lawmakers have passed what could be the most restrictive abortion legislation in the country.

In Poland - a country with already highly restrictive abortion legislation - the government is now trying to ban abortion outright in all cases, even if the woman's life is in danger.

Not until the later seventies, with the emergence of what was called «the religious new right,» did abortion become an urgent item on the evangelical agenda, along with issues such as school prayer and pornography On the eve of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the Southern Baptist Convention, for example, was formally calling for more permissive abortion legislation.

Despite her famous 13 - hour filibuster last year against new abortion legislation in Texas, Sen. Wendy Davis says she actually supports a 20 - week ban on abortion.

The discussion highlighted the need for a substantive parliamentary debate on the current abortion legislation since medical science and practice is raising serious questions over when the foetus becomes viable outside the womb, the current twenty - four week limit for «social» abortion and the growing number of doctors in the UK who are refusing to perform abortions because of the aforementioned.

In the same 60 Minutes interview, Trump affirmed his commitment to appoint a Supreme Court justice who would look at overturning Roe vs. Wade, leaving abortion legislation up to the states.

The national media and a hundred advocacy groups were apoplectic at the prospect of Stephen Harper as prime minister - a man who said he would never introduce abortion legislation.

Governor Whitman signs Parental Notification for Abortion legislation.

The justices will consider, firstly, whether current laws are compatible with the ECHR and, secondly, whether the NIHRC could initiate further proceedings and argue that abortion legislation in Northern Ireland is incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998.

MP Fiona Bruce tells Premier why SHE is trying to get the Government to change their abortion legislation.

The abortion legislation of 1967 was a decision of colossal consequences.

In a statement, Stewart - Cousins sought to lump the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference with Senate Republicans» opposition to abortion legislation and LGBT rights bills.

Republicans who control a majority of the nation's statehouses are considering a wide range of abortion legislation that could test the government's legal ability to restrict a woman's right to terminate pregnancy.

Her research weaves between an archaeological dig of a 3.5 million - year - old female specimen, to the suppressed voices of the witch trials of the 16th century Europe, the symphysiotomy trials, and abortion legislation in Ireland today.