Sentences with phrase «banning abortion»

Anti-women's health politicians also are using the fraud campaign to push for legislation banning abortion, both federally and in states.
Perry has already cut off 130,000 Texas women from basic preventive health care, including lifesaving cancer screenings and well - woman checkups, and now by virtually banning abortion he's further denying women access to health care.
In a letter to Congress today, Planned Parenthood detailed how recent attacks are part of a decade - long pattern of illegal harassment by extremists, whose focus is banning abortion and preventing women from accessing preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers.
That law, like all TRAP laws, had nothing to do with women's health or common sense — and everything to do with shutting down health centers and banning abortion.
Already, conservative politicians have begun to use this fraud campaign to justify legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, which would cut women off from birth control, lifesaving cancer screenings, and other services, and to push for legislation banning abortion federally and in states.
Gynoticians are so fixated on banning abortion that they are using these discredited smear videos as an excuse to pass their dangerous laws at the high price of potentially cutting off millions of men, women and young people from preventative care.
Banning abortion does not make it go away; it only makes it unsafe.»
So it's really no surprise that Rubio would volunteer to be the lead sponsor on a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks.
The covenant prohibits all sexual expression outside a heterosexual marriage relationship and violates women's reproductive rights by banning abortion.
It's also the Republican party that wants to pass laws regarding an institution of religion and prohibit the free exercise thereof, ie, banning abortion.
Based on a task force report, the US state of South Dakota has enacted a law banning all abortion, except for when the woman's life is in danger — New Scientist examines the report
I have a vague conception of how cases get to the Supreme Court, but from my understanding a heavily conservative state, like North Dakota, could pass a law banning all abortion, and a case challenging the validity of this law would be raised, and appeals courts would send it before the SCOTUS, which would choose to take it and make a ruling.
The mailer links the Tea Party to 2008 VP candidate / former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and says it holds «ultra-conservative views like banning abortion, privatizing Social Security, and abolishing the Department of education,» adding: «If Joe Golombek wants to be a Tea Party candidate so badly, he's not a Democrat we can trust.»
Jose Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch said: «The new penal code [banning abortion] doesn't just go against basic human rights: It goes against fundamental principles of humanity».
A biologically ethical, theologically sound and legally workable argument for banning abortion — and a way of condoning contraception?
The House has already passed a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks.
George W. Bush was Pro-Life and had a majority in both houses of Congress yet did not offer a bill banning abortion.
As the progressive site Think Progressreported, the Hyde Amendment set the status quo for federal abortion policy and «spawned similar restrictions banning abortion coverage for government employees, Peace Corps volunteers, federal inmates, military personnel, and Native American women.»
Frum does not favor banning abortion and his concerns about the state of the modern conservative movement in the United States are well documented.
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.
Banning abortion will no more reduce it than prohibition reduced drinking.
silence your opinion because at that point the law banning abortion would be favoring our side?
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.
In fact, banning abortion may actually have an adverse effect on reducing the number of women seeking abortions.
But Kasich did sign into law a measure banning abortions after 20 weeks — another controversial regulation that could potentially brush up against previous court rulings, even though Kasich cited Supreme Court precedent for his veto of the «heartbeat» legislation.
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.
Irish women will mark the day with a strike in protest against the eighth amendment of the Irish Constitution, which bans abortion.
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:
remember that this plate says choose life, not ban abortion.
We can ban abortion, restrict access to birth control but we can not help the babies live past one year old.
Just this week, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, signed a pair of new Kansas laws that ban abortions after 21 weeks of pregnancy and that require minors seeking to terminate pregnancies to get consent from both their parents.
= > 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.
The above scenario allows for a creator, but not for banning abortions or gay marriage.
The legal battle to ban abortion, however, is not by any means defeated with this report of a medical abortifacient, and it may in fact be helped.
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.
After God drowned almost the whole human race in the flood, including babies, infants, etc., murdering the first - born in Egypt just to make a point, citing the Bible as rationale to ban abortion is irrational.
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.
She said that if Trump is elected, he promises to defund Planned Parenthood, appoint pro-life judges, and sign the Pain Capable Abortion Protection Act, which would ban abortion after twenty weeks.
Others think that overturning Roe would ban abortion everywhere, instead of returning the issue to the states.
The other end of discussion would be to ban all abortions.
If you BAN abortion, which is what «pro-life» means, then you PREVENT mothers in these (alleged) 5 % of cases from aborting!
I do understand why it's overcrowded, but do you really think those problems with the biological parents will somehow magicly disapear if we ban abortion and force these women to give birth?
Asked whether the party would ban abortion, Sir Ed, who is standing in his former Kingston and Surbiton seat, said: «No.
There is always the threat of Todd Akin banning abortions in case of rape.
The better known case, Roe v. Wade, challenged an old Texas statute that banned abortion except where the mother's life was in danger.
Your HEARTLESS call to ban all abortions shows that your answer is «tough luck» for your family member.
The bill in question proposes to ban abortions due to either the sex of the fetus or a prenatal diagnosis of a genetic difference such as Down syndrome.
Indeed, about two - thirds of Americans would ban abortion after the first trimester.
Meanwhile, the abortion battle has gone digital as more states ban abortions by telemedicine.
(A CBS - New York Times poll in mid-September of this year found that only 28 per cent of those polled back a constitutional amendment banning all abortions; only 46 per cent of churchgoing and 21 per cent of non-churchgoing Catholics want such a ban.)
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