Sentences with phrase «arguments about abortion»

There is no absolute right or wrong here, and this is one weakness of some arguments about abortion.

It is called Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom (Knopf).

Since theological dialogue influences the Church's position at any given time, and since this position can be changed, the moral argument about abortion rages today with greater intensity than ever between those who would change the Church's attitude toward abortion, and those who believe the current attitude is the right one.

Not exact matches

The moral problem, as MacIntyre describes it, is evident enough: arguments about just war, abortion, capital punishment, or equality lead inevitably to shrill and sterile debate.

With more than a hint of exasperation, Scalia concludes: «One will search in vain the document we are supposed to be construing for text that provides the basis for the argument over these distinctions; and will find in our society's tradition regarding abortion no hint that the distinctions are constitutionally relevant, much less any indication how a constitutional argument about them ought to be resolved.

When I suggested that he was grievously mistaken, he responded, as he had to Woodward's doubts about his stance on abortion, not so much by refuting the argument as by rebuffing the individual who had the gall to question his wisdom.

In ways even more relentless and entangled than at present, arguments about what we insist are «other» questions will be emerging from and returning to the question of abortion.

My concern was that Wilson could not establish the moral ground of his position; that he ran the risk then of fostering confusion among his own allies about the ground of their opposition to abortion; and that the allies who made themselves suggestible to his arguments were risking a serious erosion in the conviction that they summoned to this issue.

It's not the rational arguments that make me feel sick watching the videos of abortion doctors munching salad and sipping wine while talking about crushing skulls, or that make me weep at the sight of that «tissue.»

For the record, some countries (like the former Soviet Union) did perform abortions very frequently because there weren't other effective forms of birth control.Some conservatives that I speak with counter my argument about birth control by suggesting that everyone needs to be responsible for the cost, education and hassle of this themselves.

Hillary Clinton faced criticism from both sides of the abortion debate after she waded into the fraught argument about when life begins by describing the unborn as a «person.»

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.»