Sentences with phrase «arguing against women»

She hasn't been licensed in years, and spends so much time arguing against women having birth choices that it's highly doubtful she's kept up with current meaningful research.

Catharine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, argued against women's suffrage on the grounds that «women could influence public affairs very satisfactorily without recourse to the ballot box, by the simple expedient of influencing the opinions and outlook of those who did have the vote — their husbands and sons» (Reay Tannahill, Sex in History, [Stein & Day], 1980, p. 389).

We are related to people who argued against women's ordination.

Not exact matches

They argued that the only reason women wanted to «mother» and keep house in the community was because they were so bad at such things at home - that municipal housekeeping was only a movement against domestic housekeeping.

James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering, has filed a class action lawsuit against the company in Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California.

«The Slut - Shaming of Nikki Haley»: The left has been quick to condemn sexism against progressive women, but Bari Weiss argues that when author Michael Wolff suggested that UN Ambassador Nikki Haley had an affair with President Trump, they largely ignored it.

Feminist writers have rightfully long argued that pornography» promotes a (cultural) climate in which acts of sexual hostility directed against women are not only tolerated but ideologically encouraged.»

It says that 100,000 people are alive today because of the country's laws on abortion and argue that «a world which continues to pit the rights of a woman against the rights of her unborn child is not advancing human rights.»

A couple of months ago, the magazine's managing editor, Jason Steorts, argued more overtly against the «traditionalist» understanding of marriage as between a man and a woman.

People need to weigh their passionate feelings with careful thought before they chip away at the inviolability of individual conscience, and those who believe it can be legislated against should beware of hypocrisy; they are often the same people who argue that when it comes to abortion, a woman's own mind — her individual conscience and reason — outweighs what used to be called «conventional morality.»

He would be more out of line with the Bible if he was arguing against slave ownership or for allowing women inside the church.

Anyone who would argue with this, man or woman, is in rebellion against God and not man.

Supporters of a change in the current DOD policy argue that just as blacks and women experienced discrimination in the past, so too are homosexuals discriminated against today by being excluded from military service.

Today some Christians argue that the development of contraceptives makes even the social prohibition against extramarital intercourse passé — which is to say, they are prepared to extend to women the privileges which the Old Testament freely accords to men.

The U.N.'s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), tasked with monitoring compliance by 185 states party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (also called CEDAW), uses UNFPA data regularly to argue that abortion is an international human right.

Here is a Muslim woman who makes some sense, arguing for items of modesty such as burkini but against face veiling.

One could argue that God was not exactly married to Israel the same way that a man is married to a woman, but against this it could also be argued that the covenant relationship God has with Israel is far stronger and far more binding than the relationship shared between a husband and wife.

Outdone Legendary courtroom orator William Jennings Bryan, by lawyer Bill Diehl, who in defending Charlotte Hornets owner George Shinn against charges that Shinn had sexually assaulted a woman, argued that the alleged oral sex was consensual, saying, «If she ain't bitin», she ain't fightin».»

Technology is great in a pinch, but I am argueing against it's widespread, unnecessary overuse in a process that women were biologically designed for.

What we are arguing against is your assertion that episodes of negligence are what is driving women to homebirth.

The Green party's candidate for mayor of London, Sian Berry, warned against total prohibition, however, arguing there was «no evidence» the Swedish ban had done anything to help trafficked women.

Last week, her death - penalty expert lawyer, Andrea Lyon, argued that the death penalty can also be gender bias, against young single women.

The Violence Against Women Bill still does not go far enough with regards to educating young people about behaviour and relationships, the Welsh Liberal Democrats will argue today.

While most MPs would run a mile from such a group, Davies has given a speech at their conference arguing that the British justice system favoured women and discriminated against men.

Today, as he did in arguing against the increase in officers last year, Mr. de Blasio pointed to the city's continually low crime rate: «I say, God bless the men and women of the NYPD for doing a great job.»

Locally, many officials are already arguing that ripping out pedestrian plazas as a prophylactic against scantily clad women and creepy cartoon characters is like throwing out the baby and keeping the bath water, so we don't expect that to go anywhere fast.

Although many countries have made substantial progress towards criminalising violence against women and promoting gender equality, the Series authors argue that governments and donors need to commit sufficient financial resources to ensure their verbal commitments translate into real change.

A lawmaker argued on Wednesday that a 10 % tax on indoor tanning, which would be repealed under the new Republican health plan, discriminates against women.

Critics argue that the tax has forced tanning salons to close and resulted in lost jobs, and some have claimed that it's racist against people with light skin; now, Smith says it disproportionately hurts women.

Fourthly, as with all observational studies, residual confounding by other factors can not be totally excluded; however, the consistently observed null results in both men and women argued against missing strong associations.

► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.

March 27, 2018 • Journalist Maya Dusenbery argues that medicine has a «systemic and unconscious bias» against women that is rooted in «what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools.»

The filmmakers could argue that by showing violence against women perpetrated by «the bad guys» they are being critical of mistreating women.

One can argue that women artists are discriminated against but with a graph or chart chockfull of empirical data there can be no denying it.

Journalist Maya Dusenbery argues that medicine has a «systemic and unconscious bias» against women that is rooted in «what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools.»

«Counting is a feminist strategy... One can argue that women artists are discriminated against but with a graph or chart chockfull of empirical data there can be no denying it.

The covenant asks students to refrain from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman,» a stipulation critics argue is discriminatory against LGBTQ individuals.

At issue is the Christian university's community covenant that asks the students to refrain from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman,» a stipulation critics argue is discriminatory against LGBTQ individuals.

Medical malpractice: The applicants Albert Benhaim and Michael O'Donovan are physicians who lost a medical malpractice suit against Cathie St - Germain, a woman who argued they neglected to spot a nodule appearing in the X-rays of her spouse, who then died of cancer.

This was a very significant case for women's equality rights as it gave LEAF and its coalition partners an opportunity to elaborate on the key human rights concepts of adverse - effect discrimination and the duty to accommodate, as well as to argue against the idea of «reverse discrimination».

However, opponents to the Bill argue that Bill 62 directly discriminates against Muslim women.

They further argued that women in NI were being discriminated against as compared to other women in the UK

LSUC benchers voted in April 2014 not to accredit the law school proposed by TWU, a British Columbia - based evangelical Christian university, because of its community covenant that asks students to refrain from «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman,» a stipulation critics argue is discriminatory against LGBTQ individuals.

UNISON applied for a judicial review of the Fees Order and argued that it was not a lawful exercise of the Lord Chancellor's statutory powers because the fees interfered unjustifiably with the right of access to justice under the common law and EU law, frustrated the operation of legislation granting employment rights, and discriminated unlawfully against women and other protected groups.

The plaintiffs will argue that BC's legal aid system discriminates against women and children and violates their rights to life and security of the person by increasing their risk of exposure to violence and intense stress.

Dr. Gehl, supported by the intervener LEAF, argues that s. 6 (1)(f) of the Act and the Proof of Paternity Policy (the «Policy»), adopted by the Registrar for determining paternity, infringe s. 15 of the Charter by discriminating against her and other descendants of illegitimate children of aboriginal women on grounds of sex.

Opponents argued the Langley university's community covenant prohibiting «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman» discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation against gay and lesbian law students and faculty.

As the court cases played out, the National Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of First Nations) argued that women who challenged section 12 (1)(b) were selfish and «anti-Indian» because they fought against the very law (the Indian Act) they viewed as guaranteeing the right of Indigenous self - determination.

This is true, Ms. Uviller argues, even in families where women work since men are treated better than women in the workplace and women are discriminated against due largely to assumptions about their child rearing responsibilities.