Sentences with phrase «as abortion opponents»

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Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

UCP MLAs sat stonefaced and silent Thursday, looking at phones and tablets as opponents accused them of misogyny and political cowardice over the government's proposed abortion clinic buffer zone bill.

To avoid begging the question as to why the embryo deserves moral respect, the opponent to abortion usually resorts to something like what I have called the theory of strict identity based on a symmetrical theory of temporal relations.

That is, genetic identity is a nonstrict identity, as opposed to Leibniz's (and the opponent to abortion's) theory of strict identity.

Some abortion opponents have trouble with the whole idea of growing embryos as a source, as it were, of spare parts.

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...

These decisions exemplify both the inherently expansive nature of the new regime's abortion jurisprudence as well as its disempowerment of political opponents.

What is one's place in a political regime that regards abortion as defining of the constitutional covenant, that expands the principle to other institutions of both private and public law, and that politically disempowers opponents?

Moreover, the Court's own case law shows that it is impossible to disempower political opponents of abortion without going on to disempower them politically on other issues as well.

Opponents of abortion will treat moms who miscarry an unwanted pregnancy the same as if they had intentionally killed a living being.

A measure that supporters say would codify Roe v. Wade in state law has also failed to gain a vote as opponents contend it is an unnecessary expansion of abortion rights.

The Jewish Week's Adam Dickter reported that the text of Paladino's remarks to Orthodox rabbis in Borough Park was written by Rabbi Yehuda Levin, described by Dickter as «an ardent opponent of gay rights and abortion and occasional New York political candidate.»

Sen. Gustavo Rivera is using his primary opponent, Manny Tavarez, as a fundraising tool, sending out an email to supporters yesterday that decries his fellow Democrats» proclaimed support of «family values,» which include opposition to same - sex marriage and abortion rights.

Martins has been under attack from his Democratic opponent, Adam Haber, for the Senate GOP's refusal to allow Gov. Andrew Cuomo's full 10 - point Women's Equality Act to come to the floor for a vote as a result of opposition to the abortion - rights plank.

The Conservative Party, along with a range of right - leaning groups such as the Rifle And Pistol Association and abortion opponents, opposed the convention referendum, which was soundly rejected in a landslide by voters.

Opponents of the abortion bill walk in circles around supporters of the bill as a committee holds hearings on the bill at the Texas Capitol on Tuesday, July 2.

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

In a bit of an everything - but - the - kitchen sink spot, Sen. Eric Schneiderman hits his Republican opponent, Dan Donovan, hard on three issues that have ermeged as chief among his criticisms of the Staten Island DA: Wall Street, mob - tainted campaign cash and abortion rights.

Abortion is also a political wedge issue against the Governor's republican opponent Rob Astorino who Cuomo has attempted to portrayed as an «ultra conservative».

The talking points attack the Democratic platform of public financing for elections, changes to state abortion law that opponents say would open the door to regulations that could greatly expand the practice's surgical parameters, as well as the Dream Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants to utilize state tuition assistance programs.

Abortion is also a political wedge issue against the governor's Republican opponent, Rob Astorino, who Cuomo has attempted to portray as an ultra-conservative.

The first few seconds of the spot feature typical Democratic attacks against Republican rivals: tying opponent Steve Lonegan to Social Security and Medicare privatization, saying he supports an abortion ban and labeling him as «too extreme.»

The governor, in his final pitch to voters, defined his GOP opponent Astorino as an «ultra conservative» who he says is against many social issues that Democrats are for, including a woman's right to choose abortion.

However, opponents of legal abortion are trying to drive a wedge between Planned Parenthood and African American women by using tactics such as billboards and videos filled with misinformation and distortion.

Just as women's health opponents have been so successful at chipping away at abortion access, so too do they hope to erode access to contraception.