Sentences with phrase «as abortion became»

Well, if you look at the statistical analysis, you will find that as abortion became legal and safe, the rate of violent crime has dropped in this country — significantly and with a high correlation to access to safe and legal abortions.

Not exact matches

Although the exact number of illegal abortions in the U.S. is hard to determine, many reproductive rights experts believe that self - induced abortions will continue to rise as the process of finding a legal abortion becomes more time - consuming and difficult.

Although the charges were ultimately dismissed, pro-choice activists believe that there will be more cases like it as access to abortion becomes more limited in the U.S.

The minute to bring religion in as your justification for abortion laws (or any laws honestly) the whole argument becomes invalid and should be tossed out due to a seperation of church and state.

Tenderness separated from the source of tenderness thus supports a «popular piety» that goes unexamined, a piety in which liberalism in its decline establishes dogmatic rights, rights that in an extreme» as presently in the arguments for abortion in the political sphere and for «popular culture» in the academic» become absolute dogma to be accepted and not examined.

«The «right to abortion,» with its theme of sexual liberation,» as Hadley Arkes puts it, «has become the central peg on which the interests of the Democratic party have been arranged,» just as, «since the days of Ronald Reagan, the Republican party has become... the pro-life party in our politics.»

When comprehensive s3x education becomes the norm in schools and contraception information is included, the number of abortions will drop, just as it has been dropping steadily.

Governmental indifference to contraception was soon construed to imply governmental indifference to abortion, via the misconstrual of abortion as a matter of sexual privacy rather than as a matter of public justice; and the «right to abortion» soon became a defining issue in our politics.

And you would be right, but as Robby notes, «The impulse to crush the rights of conscience... to ensure conformity with what have become key tenets of the liberal faith (abortion, «sexual freedom,» «same - sex marriage») is the authoritarian impulse» at work.

Furthermore, as I became more involved in the feminist conversation (some feminists are pro-life, of course, but many are pro-choice), I began to understand some of the arguments against the criminalization of abortion, like that banning abortion does not necessarily reduce the abortion rate, that enforcing a ban on all abortions would be impossible, and that women would likely seek out abortions through unsafe, illegal procedures anyway.

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

Then this: «If the official Republican platform is carried out, a thirteen - year - old girl who becomes pregnant as a result of being raped by her father and has an abortion could end in the gas chamber.»

In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.

What is to keep states from requiring medical students to learn to perform abortions as a condition to becoming licensed to practice medicine, from requiring medical schools to offer training in abortion, or from requiring public employees to subsidize abortion through health insurance?

Sure, there may be those who oppose abortion on a primarily scientific or pragmatic basis — but with the overwhelming majority of evangelicals saying that they oppose most abortion, it ultimately becomes an issue of what we see as right and wrong.

This is basic common sense, and is fine as far as it goes, but it does not explain why pro-life advocates would struggle against easy access to abortion when they are not being personally oppressed by it, or why some men would hold pro-choice views when they can not become pregnant.

If a large group of people of a certain belief moved into your area becoming the majority they could take over the hospitals essentially denying you services (as is the case in much of the south for abortion).

They use the abortion issue as an example: «Those who would like to see abortion grow rarer and become nonexistent had also be ready to take in some teen moms and adopt some unwanted babies.

The grandparents of today who accepted this consent with relief became in some cases the «condoning generation» with regard to abortion in difficult cases with the result that many mothers today, even within our own community, carry the burden of a decision that was sold to them as a solution to their problem pregnancy.

9 Although the most abstract metaphysical categories (like «becoming») are time independent, and hence eternal, the other universals, according to Hartshorne, are emergent and contingent, as in «different from Shakespeare,» or as in the precise shade of blue in a certain iris, or as in «moderation regarding the issue of abortion.»

Barring natural tragedy, as in miscarriage, or lethal intervention, as in abortion, this being will become what everyone recognizes as a human baby.

The battle between Driehaus and a group of progressive Catholic supporters on the one hand and religious conservatives on the other is a reminder that abortion has become a key issue in the midterm elections in parts of the country, even as the economy and jobs remain voters» top concern.

Much as most English Catholics love Her Majesty the Queen, many of us felt just a little uneasywhen it became known that she referred to the late Cardinal Hume as «my Cardinal», and not entirely enthused by television images of Her Majesty attending Vespers at Westminster Cathedral, for all the world as if it was Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey: not because such ecumenical gestures are in themselves a bad thing, but because this one seemed all too likely to be have been a reward to the English Church for no longer making so much of a nuisance of itself, as it could have done, for instance, by criticising the supposedly Catholic - minded Tony Blair for his wholehearted support for abortion (including abortion up to term)- a stance which, north of the border, had led the late Cardinal Winning to utter a series of blistering denunciations of the Prime Minister even during NewLabour's honeymoon years.

As the evil wrought by abortion and its logical corollary of euthanasia becomes ever more apparent, there are some hopeful signs of ethical resurgence.

Mississippi would have become the first state to define a fertilized egg as a person, a measure which was aimed at outlawing abortion in the state but, opponents contended, would have led to all kinds of unintended consequences...

Because abortion had become legal and easily available, that argument ran — as you well know — Infanticide would eventually become openly permissible, to be followed by euthanasia for infirm, expensive senior citizens.

As a result of the initiative, more than 7,500 lives have been saved from abortion; 33 abortion facilities have closed; crisis pregnancy centres that offer real choices for life and for unborn babies have flourished; previously uninvolved church communities have become active in supporting the pro-life cause; new leaders have emerged in the pro-life movement; and a whole variety of newcomers have got involved in pro-life activities.

The bad faith that can infect holders of this position becomes apparent when feminist cries of «femicide» and «previctimization» over the selective destruction of female embryos curiously lapse into silence at the random destruction of embryos (abortion on demand) or at multiple abortions (abortion as a contraceptive).

If we say such cells have the potential of becoming human life, then Catholics are right to argue that the unjoined sperm and egg also have a similar potential for life, and anything that stops them joining (such as a condom or withdrawal) is morally equivalent to abortion.

The new feminist view, as advanced by Drucilla Cornell in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, as well as by others, recognizes that justifying abortion under the right to privacy has become problematical.

The Democrats had become the party of the courts; their mission now was simply to protect the courts as the judges imposed policies on abortion, busing, and the environment that could not gather support at the polls.

Since then, it has become increasingly difficult for anti-abortion Democrats to be elected as Democrats; whites who are «personally against abortion» have increasingly switched from the Democratic party to the Republican Party; and it has become increasingly difficult for pro-abortion Republicans to be elected as Republicans.

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.

What started as a pro-labor movement party has become more fixated on issues that are more limosine liberal crazy issues like unfettered access to abortion, LGBT nuttines Environmental Wackos, etc...

He became a firm opponent of abortion, which some might see as a matter of conscience, others hypocrisy.

They included his 1983 inaugural, his famous keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, a talk at Yale University in 1985, and of course, his defense of abortion rights at the University of Notre Dame that defined how «Cuomo wrestled with his Catholicism even as he became richly tied to its intellectual traditions and spiritual message.»

Islamic law permits abortion in cases of medical necessity (where the mother's life is in jeopardy) until 120 days in utero, at which point it regards the fetus as «ensouled» and abortion becomes homicide.

However, the question has become still more pertinent this week, as I pass the UK's 24 - week cut - off for abortion and sail towards my third trimester.

That question is not simply a matter for intellectual debate, as is evident in the controversy surrounding an issue like abortion, which is fundamentally a debate about when a fetus becomes a conscious person.

Election is Alexander Payne's follow - up to his startlingly mature 1996 feature debut, Citizen Ruth, an equal - opportunity abortion satire that starred Laura Dern as an unhappily pregnant, paint - huffing loser who becomes a pawn of both the pro-choice and pro-life movements.

Who knows, just as 3 - d imagaging of baby's in the womb strengthened the pro-life argument at the time that ru - 486 became commonplace leading to reduction of abortions.

The reason half of Americans doubt the science on climate change isn't because they are stupid or misled by the fossil fuels lobby, but because the global warming issue has now become as much as part of America's culture wars as abortion or creationism.

This has become a more salient issue over time as organizations are now more likely to be involved in «political disputes over funding, the role of labour unions, abortion and other matters».

Although Islamic scholars disagree over exactly when life begins or when abortion is acceptable, most view terminating a pregnancy after four months — «the point at which, in Islam, a fetus is thought to become a living soul» — as not permissible.

However, as new restrictions were becoming law across the country, governors in three states vetoed abortion restrictions.