Sentences with phrase «about abortion laws»

How about abortion laws, and bans on gay marriage?

The Associated Press is reporting: Now available online are articles headlined «Texas appeals court rejects treaty violation argument» and «Judges express skepticism about abortion law infringing on speech.»

Not exact matches

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.

Ireland's abortion laws are the strictest in Europe, but the Irish government may be about to address the previously unapproachable: whether to loosen restrictions on ending a pregnancy.

Arkes remains a convinced incrementalist in abortion politics: he recounts the battle over partial - birth abortion (still ongoing) as a «modest first step» away from the jurisprudence of Roe; in a similar vein he has hopes that the Born - Alive Act (now signed into law) might help to revive reasoned public discourse about the true character of abortion.

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.

Second, Jon is wrong about what Pennsylvania law says on late - term abortions.

The Hawaiian court has thus set itself on the same course of action as the misguided Supreme Court in 1973 when it thought that laws about abortion were merely an assertion of the rights of a living mother and an unborn fetus.

Just as believers can, all by themselves with no changes to any existing laws, reduce abortions by about 70 %, they can also improve their image if their members would simply comply with their cult's beliefs.

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.

This article is not about the legality of abortion, which has never been «murder» under any US law.

@GT: the law isn't saying catholics you must pay to teach your employees about contreceptives and abortion... it is covering all employers.

Let there be no mistake about the impact of the Roe and Doe decisions: they did not «liberalize» abortion law; they abolished abortion law in all fifty states.

This is why I don't think most Christians who demand laws against abortion are sincere about it being about «respect for human life».

Complaints about a billboard campaign claiming Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion laws had saved... More

It seems to me that if the Republican Party was serious about appointing judges to overturn Roe v. Wade and passing laws that would make abortion illegal, they would provide voters with some specifics about how this would work out practically.

What about all the other institutions that aren't «religious institutions» in the narrow sense, but are staffed by human beings (yes, even profit - making businesses are staffed by human beings) who are now required by federal law to become part of the abortion industry?

Debates about this will easily generate much more heat than light unless the energy of both sides is focused on the right question, which is: «Given that 200,000 abortions a year is far too many, how can a deliverable change in the law most effectively reduce that number?»

Millions of voters knew about Todd Akin's comments on abortion and rape but had never heard about Barack Obama's vote against an Illinois law to protect newborns that survived botched abortions.

If you have questions about your rights and responsibilities as a prospective father, whether or not it's in the context of an abortion, you may want to contact a family law attorney near you to learn more.

Or someone can care about moral issues like abortion or law enforcement.

Consider the range of liberal laws in the 19th and 20th centuries such as laws about marriage and divorce, women's rights, and sexuality, and contemporary conflicts about abortion and gay rights in Africa and South and North America.

Following the UK government's decision last month to devolve abortion law to Holyrood, Scotland has been awash with speculation about how this will affect Scottish women's reproductive rights.

This includes laws that force doctors to lie to their patients about there being a link between breast cancer and abortion, TRAP laws that impose unnecessary building regulations on abortion clinics, and the forcing of women to pay for funerals for foetal remains following an abortion.

And if Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice, because the states are legislating their own laws about abortion, completely independent.»

The governor also made statements about protecting immigrant and abortion rights, raising the age of criminal responsibility and, in his State of the State book, rolling back the state's marijuana laws.

A settlement between the city and a pro-life crisis - pregnancy clinic has reversed a Bloomberg - era law that required such centers to post notices about the availability of abortions.

Long had previously told me that she believed Roe v. Wade was a «horrible decision from a constitutional law standpoint,» and that «if Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice, because the states are legislating their own laws about abortion, completely independent.»

Ms. McCaughey, who said information provided by the Pataki campaign about her position was incorrect, does not support terminating Medicaid financing for abortion, nor does she support any law that would prevent a teen - age girl from making her own choice about whether to have an abortion.

The law also permits abortions by «a qualified, licensed healthcare practitioner,» a standard which might expand beyond physicians, leading to questions about the suitability of the healthcare personnel making decisions with women.

Previously, abortions beyond this point were only legal to save the mother's life, but the «health» standard has raised concerns about a broader law than the initial statute.

The ripple effects of the Supreme Court's ruling about Texas abortion laws were being felt here in Western New York on Monday.

Daniels, who teaches several courses on reproductive politics, including abortion law, said students often asked about the content of information provided to women in informed consent states.

We wrote here earlier this week about the Catholic connection — University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey R. Stone's post at the American Constitution Society's ACSBlog in which he suggests that religious affiliation may be the key to explaining last week's Supreme Court decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, upholding a federal law prohibiting so - called partial birth abortions.

«The new Chief Justice, John G. Roberts, Jr., contributed to that impression in the case about parental notice laws for minors seeking an abortion.

Whereas legal thinkers once limited their most serious scholarship to law review articles, occasionally nipping out into the dangerous world to write an op - ed, now many of them offer off - the - cuff observations about everything from partial birth abortion bans to their favorite CDs, several times daily.

That's why we've been involved at every stage of the case about the proposed law school at TWU, an evangelical Christian institution that requires its students and employees to sign a Community Covenant prohibiting abortion and sex outside of heterosexual marriage.

First, the state moved to ban Planned Parenthood health centers from participating in the Women's Health Program, based solely on the fact that these centers were associated with other sites where abortions were provided; Planned Parenthood health centers had been serving about four in 10 women in the program statewide, and some sites served as many as eight in 10 women within their service areas.22 The Obama administration made clear that Texas» action violated federal law by discriminating against qualified providers.

The 2005 expansion of the Ethiopian abortion law provided minors access to legal abortions, yet little is known about abortion among adolescents.

If you are a minor considering an abortion, please read about laws in Arizona that apply on the Planned Parenthood Arizona web pages.

About the only bright spot for reproductive rights supporters was the defeat in Mississippi of a ballot initiative that would have sharply restricted women's access not only to abortion but also to various contraceptive methods by defining a person under state law as «a human being from the moment of fertilization.»

«From the beginning, this relentless campaign has been about one thing: antiabortion extremists who will do anything — lie, twist facts, villainize providers, and even reportedly break the law — in their quest to ban abortion and block millions from accessing basic reproductive health care,» she said in a statement to The Washington Post.

What you need to know about Arizona state laws regarding accessing abortion care; including information on minors and abortion law.

If you are a minor considering an abortion, please read about parental consent and notification laws that might apply in your state.

Do you have questions about birth control, STIs, emergency contraception (EC), laws affecting teens» access to abortion, or other sexual health issues?

In Colautti v. Franklin, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a Pennsylvania law that requires a physician about to perform an abortion to first determine whether the fetus is or may be viable in the grounds that the meaning of viable or may be viable is unclear.