Sentences with phrase «battle over abortion»

This is a more serious complaint: The battle over abortion is fundamentally a battle over the judiciary, at this point.

Not exact matches

(If that sounds familiar, it's because the same argument was made twenty - five years ago in the early stages of the battle over legalized abortion.)

I have great admiration for the courage and the indefatigable spirit that George and Ryan Anderson have shown in the fight against abortion and in the protracted battle over «same sex marriage.»

Arkes remains a convinced incrementalist in abortion politics: he recounts the battle over partial - birth abortion (still ongoing) as a «modest first step» away from the jurisprudence of Roe; in a similar vein he has hopes that the Born - Alive Act (now signed into law) might help to revive reasoned public discourse about the true character of abortion.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Since May, Cuomo's state Democratic Committee has served as the conduit for all things anti-Astorino: His fight with the Department of Housing and Urban Development over affordable housing, his conservative stance on abortion and a lawsuit filed against him stemming from the obscure battles within the Independence Party in Westchester County.

Many of the battles in the 2016 race have been over cultural divides, but not necessarily those that cut neatly across demographic lines: Stavisky's side has been hammering Jung for his proposal to ban pictures of same - sex couples from textbooks and his pro-life stance on abortion.

It cites Astorino's long - running battle with federal housing officials over zoning regulations in Westchester and his opposition to abortion.

McClatchy: Senate girds for Saturday vote and long battle on health care The Senate Thursday began what promises to be a bitter, lengthy battle over the future of health care in America, and taxes, abortion, affordability and federal deficits emerged as key flashpoints.

THE battle in the US over abortion has claimed a casualty: research on transplantation of fetal tissue into humans.

Thursday, May 17 2018New restrictions in some conservative states are urging a high court battle over a woman's right to an abortion.

Q: The battle over «the right to life,» particularly concerning abortion, has become one of the key platforms of the conservative right, but you point out that this was not always the partisan issue that it is today.

«As first noted here late last night, in today's edition of The Recorder of San Francisco, attorney Cyrus Sanai has an interesting essay entitled «Taking the Kozinski Challenge» that begins, «The fiercest battle within the federal appellate courts these days is not over abortion or gay marriage, but the arcane question of whether an attorney may cite the unpublished case law of an appellate court as the binding law of the circuit.»»

And the organization's work isn't getting lighter: Title X — a federally funded low - income family planning program — is rumored to be on the chopping block, and a Supreme Court battle over whether or not crisis pregnancy centers can lie about abortion under the protection of the First Amendment looms in the future.