Sentences with phrase «by banning abortion»
The covenant prohibits all sexual expression outside a heterosexual marriage relationship and violates women's reproductive rights by banning abortion.
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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.
= > 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 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.
The first president Bush banned partial birth abortion, and then the ban was reversed by Clinton.
Just as regularly, federal courts have overruledthe bans, claiming that they transgress against the abortion license guaranteed by Roe v. Wade.
This freedom leads to death, as witnessed most recently by President Clinton's veto of the ban on partial - birth abortions.»
An attempt by the House of Representatives to pass an overwhelmingly popular ban on late - term abortion was temporarily scrapped when some House Republicans came to the horrible realization that they might actually have to follow through on their campaign promises.
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.
And federally - funded abortion was banned (out of Medicaid) by President Carter in the late» 70's..
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Nebraska's position was buttressed by various statements of the American Medical Association, which had previously supported a federal version of the ban on partial «birth abortion, and which after expert study had been unable to identify any circumstance where partial «birth abortion was the only appropriate procedure.
The survey also found that nine in ten people questioned wanted sex selective abortions to be banned by the law.
Justice John Paul Stevens (joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) stated: «Although much ink is spilled today describing the gruesome nature of late «term abortion procedures, that rhetoric does not provide me a reason to believe that the procedure Nebraska here claims it seeks to ban is more brutal, more gruesome, or less respectful of «potential life» than the equally gruesome procedure [D&E] Nebraska claims it still allows.»
By all means let us ban as many abortions as we can, as soon as we can.
Meanwhile, the abortion battle has gone digital as more states ban abortions by telemedicine.
The ERLC has offered six pro-life priorities for action by President - elect Trump and Congress in 2017, including the nomination and confirmation of a pro-life successor to the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, a permanent ban on all federal funding of abortion and the defunding of Planned Parenthood, the country's No. 1 abortion provider.
Trump has largely stood by his pro-life campaign promises, appointing conservative justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, signing a law allowing states to withhold funding from Planned Parenthood, and reinstating a ban on federal funds for organizations that perform abortions overseas.
A great many people are trying to ban forms of womens» healthcare, and perhaps you are too young to remember, but when it was illegal before, large numbers of women turned to «back alley» abortions, often performed in unsanitary conditions by untrained people.
If abortion is outlawed by Christians, we can expect a ban on the Pill, Norplant, IUD, Shot and Patch.
But Reed, who formerly led the Christian Coalition, charges that the controversy around calls for abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest --- he says anti-abortion activists generally support abortions to save a mother's life - has been blown out of proportion by Democrats and liberals who want to paint the GOP as extremist.
Three days after that vote — the day of President Donald Trump's inauguration and the eve a major women's march in Washington — Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the state Department of Financial Services would impose similar contraceptive requirements by regulatory action, along with a ban on copayments for abortions.
Senate Democrats from states that Donald Trump won in 2016 were vital on Monday in blocking a bill, supported by the president, that would ban abortion after the mother reaches 20 weeks of pregnancy.
While it didn't get as much attention as the (thankfully) failed vote by the Senate to ban abortions after 20 weeks in January — never mind that abortion that late in a term is both rare, and nearly always because the fetus has a catastrophic ailment — John Faso voted in favor of the same legislation in the House this past fall.
Urged by anti-abortion rights groups and Republican lawmakers to take up their cause, the Florida senator is mulling over introducing legislation to ban abortions after 20 weeks nationally — just a few days after he helped pass a comprehensive immigration bill that created waves among conservatives.
The latter issue, dramatized by Ashford's vote for a 20 - week abortion ban in the state legislature, provided echoes to the 2017 controversy in Omaha when Bernie Sanders campaigned for a «populist» Democratic candidate for mayor (Heath Mello) who voted for the same 20 - week ban.
Five days earlier, 70 House members led by abortion opponent Jay Dickey (R - AR) had written an equally harsh letter to Shalala, complaining that HHS is misreading a recent law that bans U.S. funding of research that involves the destruction of human embryos.
In light of Monday's women - led strike in Poland, in which thousands of people in over sixty cities gathered to protest the government's proposal to completely ban abortion, If You Don't Know Me By Now, You Will Never Never Never Know Me at Fundacja Arton seems exceptionally prescient.
«I take it that abortion rights activists in California wouldn't be persuaded by anti-abortion activists» arguments that «Oh, don't worry, we won't ban abortions in California, since obviously we wouldn't have the votes; we're just trying to ban them in Texas.»
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First, the state moved to ban Planned Parenthood health centers from participating in the Women's Health Program, based solely on the fact that these centers were associated with other sites where abortions were provided; Planned Parenthood health centers had been serving about four in 10 women in the program statewide, and some sites served as many as eight in 10 women within their service areas.22 The Obama administration made clear that Texas» action violated federal law by discriminating against qualified providers.
Planned Parenthood today denounced an anti-women's health provision approved by the House Appropriations Committee that would ban the use of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) funds for abortion except in cases of rape, incest and life endangerment.
Ever since the Stupak abortion coverage ban was approved by the House, there has been growing outrage across the country.
The continued attacks by extremist politicians in Washington on women's health are part of a dangerous agenda to roll back access to reproductive health care and ban abortion, leaving millions of patients across the country devastated by stripping them of the basic health care they need and deserve.
WASHINGTON, DC — Planned Parenthood today denounced an anti-women's health provision approved by the House of Representatives that would ban the use of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) funds for abortion except in cases of rape, incest and life endangerment.
A study of 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa found that the abortion rate rose during the George W. Bush administration in countries affected by the ban.
The George W. Bush administration reinstated the global gag rule, galvanized opponents of safe and legal abortion by passing a ban on a rarely used later - stage abortion procedure, and worked to establish a new legal status for frozen embryos.
The South Dakota ban on nearly all abortions, recently signed into law by Gov. Mike Rounds (R), poses a significant threat to reproductive rights.
• A similar ban existed for women in the military until President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013, which included an amendment granting parity to military women by extending insurance coverage for abortion when a pregnancy results from rape or incest.
WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards called on Speaker John Boehner and House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Chairman Trent Franks (R - AZ) to cancel Thursday's hearing on his bill to ban abortion at 20 weeks nationwide in light of today's ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that a similar law in Arizona is unconstitutional.
In addition to repeated attempts by state legislatures to chip away at access to abortion, birth control and other reproductive health care services, 10 states are currently considering sweeping bans that would criminalize abortion (AL, GA, IN, KY, MO, MS, OH, OK, TN, WV).
Washington, DC — Planned Parenthood today strongly condemned the adoption of an amendment to limit access to women's health care by banning the use of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement funds for abortion except in cases of rape, incest and life endangerment.
The «Florida for Life Act» filed by Representative Charles Van Zant attempted to ban all abortion services in the state and urged the United States Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade.
M'Evie Mead of Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri concluded opposing testimony by explaining that, «This ban is rooted in opposition to abortion, not in credible medical science.»
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.
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.