Not exact matches
Afraid
of being branded as moralists, or even worse, proselytizers, politicians cling to surface
arguments that remain in the public's comfort zone, choosing sides in the familiar
debates on school prayer, pornography, media immorality and
abortion.
The very first
argument advanced in the first congressional
debates over extending Medicaid funding to
abortion referred to the many millions
of dollars in future welfare costs that
abortion would save.
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.»
Since the vast majority
of abortions in the United States are elective (i.e. not connected to health concerns
of the fetus or mother, and not due to rape or incest), the central issue surrounding the
abortion debate is a moral
argument.
The videos reignited a long - standing
debate over the use
of fetal tissue collected through
abortions, fueled efforts seeking to ban
abortions after 20 weeks
of pregnancy, re-energized
arguments over whether public money should support Planned Parenthood and became the subject
of a Republican - led investigation on Capitol Hill.