Sentences with phrase «ban on abortions»

In addition to pledging to cut off federal funds to Planned Parenthood and support a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, he promised to make permanent the Hyde Amendment.

«Now, we must hold our new president - elect accountable for his promises to defund Planned Parenthood,» as well as pass a ban on abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy and appoint antiabortion judges, he said.

These five states join Nebraska, which adopted a ban on abortions after 20 weeks in 2010 (see State Policies on Later Abortions).

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Mississippi's new ban on abortions at 15 weeks, less than 24 hours after it was signed into law.

«Arizona abortion restrictions backed by 16 other states»: In Friday's edition of The Arizona Daily Star, Howard Fischer will have an article that begins, «Officials from 16 states are lining up behind Arizona's bid to enforce its year - old ban on abortions at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy.»

Other criticisms can be added to Gustafson's list: (6) The theology that produced the traditional ban on all abortions was not ecumenically sensitive.

For one, the judge allowed a «fetal pain» ban on abortions after 20 weeks to stand.

(UPDATED) Federal judge blocks North Dakota's new ban on abortions after as few as six weeks of pregnancy.

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.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has signed a petition calling for a total ban on abortion in... More

Wanting a federal ban on abortion — same thing.

Obama rescinded the ban on federal funds for overseas abortion providers and signed a healthcare law that many conservatives say subsidizes abortion, though the law's supporters say it respects the federal ban on abortion funding.

In the Press this was hailed as «Catholic hospital orders ban on abortion referrals» (Daily Telegraph), (etc. etc)... and finally in the Catholic Herald a leader appeared entitled «A Catholic hospital is saved» which went on to say «But the fact remains that, at last, an important Catholic institution in this country has managed to resist the pressure of secularisation — thanks, in part, to the leadership of the Cardinal».

As Jonathan Last noted in his review of Unnatural Selection, «Ms. Hvistendahl identifies a ban on abortion» and not the killing of tens of millions of unborn girls» as the «worst nightmare» of feminism.»

CNN Polling Director Keating Holland had this to say about the findings: «Only a minority of the rank - and - file members of both [Republicans and Democrats] take an extreme position on the issue, with just 31 % of Republicans calling for a complete ban on abortion and just 32 % of Democrats saying that abortion should be legal in all circumstances»...

Suppose a state wants to go all the way and passes a complete ban on abortion.

Chad: But the problem arises when you try to apply your ABSOLUTE ban on abortion.

So a complete ban on abortion would not achieve what I want.

Plus, talking up religious liberty is likely less of a turnoff for moderate voters than is talk about bans on abortion and gay marriage, traditionally the top concerns of religious conservatives.

The RC ban on abortion has been on - again off - again for centuries.

There are secular philosophers who have attempted to derive a principled grounding for an absolute ban on abortion, but they are contradicted by other philosophers.

The congressional bans on abortion funding impose a particular religious or moral viewpoint on those women who rely on government - funded health care.

Despite her famous 13 - hour filibuster last year against new abortion legislation in Texas, Sen. Wendy Davis says she actually supports a 20 - week ban on abortion.

It will now be up to Stormont to decide on whether or not to overturn the ban on abortion in cases of rape, incest, or fatal foetal abnormality.

A survey in January found that just seven per cent support a ban on abortion — the lowest that figure has ever been.

Some staged a mass walk out of a church service in Gdansk as a priest read out a letter in favour of a proposed ban on abortion.

This fact is something the Polish prime minister Beata Szydlo is wilfully ignoring in her support for an all - out ban on abortion.

He favors abortion rights, but had the idea (which he announced in August 2015) to legislate a ban on abortion after the first twenty weeks of pregnancy.

He now advocates an absolute ban on abortion, even in the case of rape or endangerment of the mother.

As this summary from Jurist points out, Carhart represents the first time that the Supreme Court has affirmed a complete ban on an abortion procedure.

A ban on abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy in North Carolina that only permitted access to abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy under an extremely narrow medical emergency exception.

Since that ruling, states have not been able to enforce bans on all abortions.

Women in Kentucky already face too many barriers to obtaining abortion care, and if the last clinic is closed it would amount to a ban on abortion in the entire state.»

Yet extreme bans on abortion continue to arise in state legislatures, including bans on abortion at just six weeks of pregnancy.

When asked how a ban on abortion would actually work, Trump admitted women would go to back alleys:

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) vetoed a ban on abortion at 20 weeks postfertilization and a restriction on postviability abortions.

Anti- choice organizations have tried to erode the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision (which ensures a woman's constitutionally protected right to choose) by advancing vaguely worded and deceptive bans on abortion procedures without an exception for the health of the woman.

Not exact matches

In fact, banning abortion may actually have an adverse effect on reducing the number of women seeking abortions.

Republican presidential front - runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday that women who end pregnancies should face punishment if the United States bans abortion, triggering a torrent of criticism from both sides of the abortion debate, including from his White House rivals.

A moderate, Lamb is personally opposed to abortion, not in favor of a ban on assault rifles, and has stated that he wouldn't support Nancy Pelosi as the Democrats» House leader.

Republican legislators sent Iowa's governor a bill early Wednesday that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, propelling the state overnight to the front of a push among conservative statehouses jockeying to enact the nation's most restrictive regulations on the procedure.

Dawn Huckelbridge, director of American Bridge's Women's Rights Initiative, released the following statement in response to the US Senate's vote on a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and threaten doctors with jail time:

Irish voters will vote on May 25 on the potential of repealing the abortion ban.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

Dissenters said it would distract attention from the main and massive reality of abortions in the early weeks and months of pregnancy, and a ban on partial - birth abortions would save very few, if any, lives.

= > As of April 2007, 36 states had bans on late - term abortions that were not facially unconsti tutional (i.e. banning all abortions) or enjoined by court order.

We've had blue laws imposing Christian beliefs on businesses, Prohibition, laws criminalizing sodomy, laws banning birth control, abortions, gay marriages, interracial marriages and more simply because arrogant Christians thought they needed to impose their «personal knowledge» of what God wants on our entire society.

The Supreme Court's decision upholding a ban on partialbirth abortions, Gonzales v. Carhart, «is a significant step in the right direction — moving away from the infamous «abortion distortion» in Supreme Court jurisprudence and bringing their interpretation of abortion law more in line with other fields of law».

On the pro-life side, ban abortions after 20 weeks (with an exception for the mother's life) and make permanent the long - standing and bipartisan - crafted principles of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the direct federal funding of abortion.

Earlier this month, the Texas legislature approved a loudly - debated package of restrictions on abortions in the Lone Star State; among other things, requiring abortion clinics to bring their facilities in line with surgical standards and banning abortions after 20 weeks.