Not exact matches
When a woman has an
abortion she commits suicide
by cuttin» off her own head when she tells the father of the
child to take a hike.
The number one issue is
abortion on every agenda, yet this is an issue which is not stopped
by legislation, it is stopped
by attacking poverty,
by increasing love for
children,
by accepting everything a sinner does — instead the goal is secular laws, shaming women with ultrasounds.
By respecting equally the life of the unborn child and the life of the mother, by supporting notification and consent before an abortion involving a minor, by offering ministries to reduce unintended pregnancy, by affirming (and encouraging church support of) crisis pregnancy centers, and by urging family counsel in decision - making about abortion, the additional language is decisively pro-lif
By respecting equally the life of the unborn
child and the life of the mother,
by supporting notification and consent before an abortion involving a minor, by offering ministries to reduce unintended pregnancy, by affirming (and encouraging church support of) crisis pregnancy centers, and by urging family counsel in decision - making about abortion, the additional language is decisively pro-lif
by supporting notification and consent before an
abortion involving a minor,
by offering ministries to reduce unintended pregnancy, by affirming (and encouraging church support of) crisis pregnancy centers, and by urging family counsel in decision - making about abortion, the additional language is decisively pro-lif
by offering ministries to reduce unintended pregnancy,
by affirming (and encouraging church support of) crisis pregnancy centers, and by urging family counsel in decision - making about abortion, the additional language is decisively pro-lif
by affirming (and encouraging church support of) crisis pregnancy centers, and
by urging family counsel in decision - making about abortion, the additional language is decisively pro-lif
by urging family counsel in decision - making about
abortion, the additional language is decisively pro-life.
The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one -
child policy,» replete with forced
abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even
by international human - rights bureaucracies.
If you think these ideas are outdated or irrelevant, I suggest you take a look at the damage that has been wrought on society
by rampant divorce,
abortion, our of wedlock pregnancy, falling birth rates, and a general view that life is NOT sacred, family is NOT important, and that
children are more a burden to be avoided than anything.
But when that manifestation of disoriented tenderness occurs again as dissipated
by an almost universal acceptance of
abortion, Mother Teresa is right to say (as Percy quotes her): «If a mother can kill her unborn
child, I can kill you, and you can kill me.»
As for bills that would protect unborn
children from
abortion after twenty weeks, APP notes that «Hispanics are more likely to back the restriction than either blacks or whites,
by a 39 point margin.»
At his sentencing today, Scott Roeder - the man who killed Kansas
abortion provider George Tiller last year - gave a long, scriptural - laden defense of the slaying, arguing that he was protecting unborn
children and obeying a higher law
by killing the doctor.
Abortion is the termination of pregnancy
by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a human
child prior to viability
By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of
abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi
children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling
abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce
abortions.
They are
children who have been raised
by and then removed from their biological parent (s)-- how is
abortion relevant to them, unless you wish they had been aborted?
Legislation has weakened marriage; permitted
abortion; destroyed Christian adoption agencies; fostered adolescent promiscuity
by promoting contraception; and hampered the supervision of failing parents, leading to the deaths of
children.
Abortion is relevant only to the extent that the single or unready parenthood is encouraged
by our culture; many of these
children would be better off if they had been adopted as infants.
It has always been interesting to me that the white men and wealthy women who have their family already want to force women to have
children they don't want
by withholding birth control and
abortion services.
And yet the swell of immigrants (more than twelve million illegal and eleven million legal since 1986, according to his figures) is still dwarfed
by the cohort of unborn
children lost to
abortion in the United States (more than twenty - nine million during the same two decades).
There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here
by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain
abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these
abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the
child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving
by the town his
child may be living in.
They will be on the spot, especially if the Bush Administration proves to be creative and determined in pressing the legal implications of the Act when it comes to hospitals that allow the killing
by exposure (or more direct means) of
children who survive
abortion procedures.
There is some connection between him having abandoned a
child of his to die,
by an
abortion that never happened, to his having abandoned and now wounded a cat.
Its funny that you want to take my right as a human to defend myself with as much firepower as possible but you do nt want to «trample» the rights of women
by not allowing them to have
abortions which kill over a million
children per year.
In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to
children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced
by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational,
abortion is ubiquitous.
Abortion was believed necessary in case a woman had
children by someone other than her husband.
Of course she says nothing about her husband's policy of overlooking human rights violations
by China, including the slave labor of uncounted thousands and forced
abortions for pregnant women with more than one
child.
This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence
by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited
abortion, that only those
children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.
The therapeutic interaction with the bereavement dolls enables the retreatants to release the love and tenderness for their
children which has often been frozen or blocked
by traumatic memories of the
abortion.
In the case of
abortion, the obstacles will often be overcome
by factual information about the peaceful, compassionate work of pro-life groups, the damage done to women
by abortion, the increasing information on the life of the
child in the womb.
The intention in
abortion and contraception is always either to kill or to prevent a
child from coming into being
by frustrating the natural sexual act.
(25) And these most definitely include the «right» to an
abortion: «women have the right to decide freely and responsibly the number, timing and spacing of their
children, as established
by international human rights law.»
Old men who promote unwanted
children by condemning contraception, yet they are against
abortion.
Some may be somewhat in limbo because of differing opinions as to what is right, for example,
abortion which is regarded
by some as horribly immoral and
by others as a legitimate step in some cases toward better family life with better rearing of those
children who are born, and toward a better - fed world.
More
children die from
abortion every day than are killed
by guns.
Parents can not impose their moral code on their
children any more than the government can stop
abortions by making them illegal.
Afterwards they are invited (everything is
by invitation; there is no coercion at any point) to tell their own
abortion story, to connect the pains of the past with the present; and in the telling of these stories, damaged relationships with God, with the unborn
child, with family members and the Church are also addressed.
Intrusion is about reliving the traumatic experience in different ways, for example
by having recurring thoughts about the
abortion or aborted
child, or having flashbacks, nightmares or intensely depressive reactions around the time of significant anniversaries.
The insistence
by supporters of
abortion on demand that only «wanted
children» be allowed to be born has not improved our infant mortality rates, which have remained among the worst in the industrialized world; nor has it helped us cope effectively with the incidence of
child abuse, the frequency and severity of which have increased dramatically during this time.
Further, Fr Fleming highlights a fact sheet which, prefaced
by a short, generic disclaimer, «mentions the right to counselling on «sexual health», and that is code for
abortion and contraception among other things.There is actually no moral right to such counselling, let alone counselling of
children without parental consent.
He said: «We're going to need to change
by virtue a humanised political debate over exactly what we want to see in our country, that means changing the law, it is also changing the culture so people view
abortion as what it is, destruction of an unborn
child.»
Justices Stevens and Ginsburg thus used the fact that D&E
abortion is horrific, yet clearly protected
by Roe and Casey, not as a reason to question Roe and Casey, but instead to belittle as «irrational» or anti «Roe any attempt to prohibit the killing of a
child partially delivered outside of the mother's body.
Now it is about the proper roles of men and women, same - sex unions and divorce and having
children and a host of other questions once thought not to be political, and all of them somehow entangled with and ever returning to the conflict created
by the Roe v. Wade discovery in the Constitution of an unlimited
abortion license.
A woman who is «physically injured»
by someone and a
child is lost due such an injury does in no way shape or form mean an
abortion.
The illegality of
abortion has been codified in some form since 1861, and in 1983 the Constitution of Ireland was explicitly amended
by the public to guarantee the equal right to life of the mother and the unborn
child.
But English law doesn't exclude that as a reason for getting
abortion, because the law only requires two doctors to certify that the woman will be harmed mentally or physically
by having the
child.
Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled
by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to
abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling
child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.
«We affirm that there are no medical circumstances justifying direct
abortion, that is, no circumstances in which the life of a mother may only be saved
by directly terminating the life of her unborn
child.»
Any change in the
abortion law should be accompanied
by changes in health - care benefits for women and
children, in
child care, in job protection, in comparable worth and in career advancement.
This argument is arrived at
by equating the plight of starving African peoples with that of a young white woman in the U.S. having an
abortion because she already has two
children and feels she couldn't possibly care adequately for a third.
A support group called Women Exploited
by Abortion (WEBA) has produced a pamphlet called «Surviving Abortion,» in which it is noted that «many women are surprised to find themselves grieving an aborted child because the abortion was — more or less — a voluntary act; but that is all the more a reason to grieve — the added dimension of responsibility — or guilt — intensifies the grief
Abortion (WEBA) has produced a pamphlet called «Surviving
Abortion,» in which it is noted that «many women are surprised to find themselves grieving an aborted child because the abortion was — more or less — a voluntary act; but that is all the more a reason to grieve — the added dimension of responsibility — or guilt — intensifies the grief
Abortion,» in which it is noted that «many women are surprised to find themselves grieving an aborted
child because the
abortion was — more or less — a voluntary act; but that is all the more a reason to grieve — the added dimension of responsibility — or guilt — intensifies the grief
abortion was — more or less — a voluntary act; but that is all the more a reason to grieve — the added dimension of responsibility — or guilt — intensifies the grief.»
Or is it being used with «a eugenic intention which accepts selective
abortion in order to prevent the birth of
children affected
by various types of anomalies»?
The
abortion rate reported
by the Centers for Disease Control stayed steady at 24 or 23 per 1,000 women of
child - bearing age from 1978 through 1992 (the last year of Bush the elder's administration), but then dropped dramatically to 17 per 1,000
by 1998 (the fifth year of the Clinton administration), as the unemployment rate also dropped dramatically.
If some who object to
abortion work to diminish the number of unwanted, inappropriate pregnancies, or to make bearing a
child for adoption
by persons able to be its loving foster parents more attractive than it now is, and do this with a minimum of coercion, all honor to them.
«So let's work together to reduce the number of women seeking
abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies, and making adoption more available, and providing care and support for women who do carry their
child to term,» Obama said to applause.