Sentences with phrase «abortion rights groups»

Abortion rights groups struck a defiant tone Wednesday, calling Trump's abortion policies extreme even among his supporters.

Kathy Hochul, a former Erie County congresswoman who is Cuomo's designated running mate, announced the party in conjunction with several abortion rights groups.

The opposition, which also include pro and anti abortion rights groups, second amendment advocates and the state's Conservative Party, spent over one million dollars running ads and distributing lawn signs in the weeks leading up to the vote.

Already, the conscience division has drawn criticism from civil groups concerned that the protections will be used as a license to discriminate, particularly against gay or transgender patients, as well as from abortion rights groups.

The abortion rights group NARAL and the anti-abortion Family Institute of Connecticut have each announced their endorsements in this fall's legislative races.

A state ethics panel has affirmed an abortion rights group's ability to shield its major donors, but ruled the group must reapply next year instead of 2016.

The controversy over the exemptions began two years ago, when it was revealed that the state arm of the abortion rights group NARAL had been granted an exemption, prompting Republicans to complain that the watchdog panel had created a disclosure - free avenue for political giving.

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.

Consider, a protester's right to camp out by the very same facilities and shout anti-abortion slogans at patients is guaranteed by the Constitution — so why shouldn't an advocacy group have the right to serve those same would - be patients an ad declaiming abortion or offering alternatives to it?

A Boston - based mobile marketing agency, Copley Advertising, has attracted several anti-abortion groups as clients for the location - based abortion clinic ad targeting service, Rewire, a nonprofit women's rights news site, reported this week.

Groups such as Catholics United and Faith in Public Life got off the ground during and just after the 2004 election when a Catholic Democratic presidential nominee - Sen. John Kerry - was hard - pressed to find Catholic support in the face of condemnations from some Catholic bishops over his support for abortion rights.

Washington (CNN)- Forty years after the Supreme Court protected abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, a new survey finds that white evangelicals remain the only major religious group that supports overturning the landmark ruling, even though most such groups find abortion morally wrong.

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.

everyday, christians pray fo this country, our leaders, troops, the economy, values and morality, and all we get back is hatred from abortion groups, gay right movements and other form of wayward beleifs with the sole purpose of reducing humans to the same level as animals.

Abortion clinics are firebombed; Planned Parenthood workers are murdered; an art gallery owner is arrested for exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs; a rap group is arrested on obscenity charges; the civil rights — or «special privileges» — of gays and lesbians are the subject of controversial referenda; and issues of multiculturahsm, freedom of expression and «political...

CNN: Susan G. Komen drops funding for Planned Parenthood The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation revealed Tuesday it was cutting funds to Planned Parenthood, sparking an outcry from abortion rights advocates blaming «political pressure» and praise from an anti-abortion group.

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 strongest supporters of abortion rights in the United States, as any nineteenth - century feminist could have predicted, are not women — but men in the age group of eighteen to twenty - five.

The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion rights group, counts all of abortions done in the United States, and for 2014 recorded 926,200 abortions.

Those who are involved in small groups often claim that these groups have influenced how they think on political and economic issues — for example, raising their interest in questions of peace and social justice or, in the case of conservative religious groups, generating ire about abortion and gay rights.

Dannenfelser's group works to elect women candidates who oppose abortion rights, raising roughly $ 11 million in the 2010 election cycle.

«Just as Catholics for a Free Choice and other such groups suggest to the general public that not all Catholics agree with positions adopted by their bishops on birth control, abortion and in - vitro fertilization, so will the Religious Right serve to suggest that not all Catholics accept the positions of church leaders in social justice matters,» writes Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.

I'm an organizer for an abortion rights advocacy group, and there's no lactation space in the statehouse so I did what I had to!

A hearing officer on Friday ruled that four lobbying groups that both support and oppose abortion rights can keep their roster of donors a secret.

Trump signed legislation aimed at cutting off federal funding to Planned Parenthood and other groups that perform abortions, a move cheered by conservatives who have clamored to impose curbs on reproductive rights.

She joined Dr. Allen in hosting fund - raisers for liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and for his clinic and expressed strong support for abortion rights, said Herbert Greenberg, a concert violinist and friend of Dr. Allen.

Reproductive rights groups are ramping up their own attacks on Senate Republican incumbents who oppose the WEA, claiming the conference's refusal to allow the legislation on the chamber floor for a vote flies in the face of public support for legal abortion.

Reproductive rights groups call that analysis a gross mischaracterization of what the legislation would do, and insist the measure would do nothing more than codify current abortion protections in state law.

To complicate matters, Loeb also has donated to some left - leaning advocacy groups including the Center for Reproductive Rights, which fights for a woman's right to choose abortion, and the Human Rights Campaign, a group that lobbied to get marriage equality enacted in New York in 2011.

In display ads spotted on TheState and Charleston news site Live5News.com, the independent expenditure group paints Romney as flip - flopper who once supported abortion rights.

Cain ran against Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin in Maine's 2nd District in 2014 and 2016, with the endorsement of the group, which backs female Democratic candidates who support abortion rights.

Tracey Brooks, president of Family Planning Advocates of New York State, says women's groups are asking Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos to bring the abortion rights measure to the floor as a stand alone bill.

The Senate, which is currently controlled by Republicans and a group of breakaway Democrats, was responsible last year for blocking the final plank in the Women's Equality Act proposed by Mr. Cuomo, which would have codified in state law the right to abortion as established by Roe v. Wade.

Women's groups say they have not given up on an abortion rights bill passing in the final days of the legislative session, now that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has introduced the Women's Equality Act as 10 separate bills.

Women's groups rallied outside the New York state Senate chamber, demanding a vote on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 10 - point women's equality act — that includes an abortion rights provision.

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.

The Rev. Emily McNeill, who heads the Labor - Religion Coalition of New York State, said her group is not as concerned about the topics promoted by the evangelical right, including opposition to abortion and gay marriage.

Mike Kink, with the group Strong Economy for All, says state lawmakers should act to strengthen reproductive rights for women, including the right to choose to have an abortion, in light of threats to the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in the U.S. Supreme Court.

His proposals include extending equal protection of women, ethnic minorities and gender identity groups as well as protecting abortion rights now provided by federal law that could be struck down by the Supreme Court.

Since 1985, the group has raised more than $ 400 million to support Democratic women who back abortion rights.

The group, which supports abortion rights, said Katko has an anti-woman, anti-family voting record.

Adding a woman to the ticket could help Astorino counter the attacks from abortion - rights groups that are already knocking his conservative stance on the issue.

The group — which is one of the point organizations hoping to drive turn out for the Women's Equality Party this November — cited Schneiderman's «lifelong commitment» to abortion rights.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo's package of measures aimed at women is expected to become a campaign issue, the abortion - rights group Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York on Monday formed a political action conference to raise reproductive rights issues.

Two key women's groups that support abortion rights are endorsing Sen. Ted O'Brien, a Democrat who faces re-election against Republican Rich Funke.

New Yorkers for Life, a group that opposes abortion, will hold a candlelight vigil Monday outside the state Capitol protesting a bill that would codify federal abortion rights in state law.

A group of advocates, including NARAL's Kelli Conlin; NYC Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn; NYS Assemblywoman Debra Glick; Jennifer Brown, head of the Reproductive Rights Unit under AG Eliot Spitzer; and Deborah Bachrach, Chief assistant AG under AG Robert Abrams are gathering this morning at City Hall in Lower Manhattan to officially denounce Donovan's position on abortion rRights Unit under AG Eliot Spitzer; and Deborah Bachrach, Chief assistant AG under AG Robert Abrams are gathering this morning at City Hall in Lower Manhattan to officially denounce Donovan's position on abortion rightsrights.

The Conservative Party, along with a range of right - leaning groups such as the Rifle And Pistol Association and abortion opponents, opposed the convention referendum, which was soundly rejected in a landslide by voters.

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.

By noon, the group EMILY's List, which backs women abortion - rights Democrats, called on Gillum «to make clear to his supporters that negative, gendered attacks have no place in political discourse.»