Sentences with phrase «controversy over abortion»

For a long time, the answer appeared to be political, a by - product of the controversy over abortion.

The news went out that the Court had settled the controversy over abortion.

I often meet abortion rights advocates who honestly thought that the national controversy over abortion would simply melt away within a few years of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

Singer has said that he sometimes thinks he and the Pope are the only ones who understand what is involved in the controversy over abortion and related issues.

Given the current election year controversies over abortion and the ideas of separation of church and state, this book seems to mirror the current issues.

Recent controversies over abortions provided by entities that receive Title X funding should prompt more consideration of the role that marriage and relationship skills training could play in improving couples» ability to act responsibly in this area.

Not exact matches

The justification for civil punishment provides such a problem, as does the controversy over the justice of abortion.

This year, of course, Cardinal Dolan's invitation to President Obama has revived controversy over the president's record not just on abortion but also religious freedom, a record that the bishops have rightly protested.

Justice Scalia is hoping that one day we will be as removed from the abortion controversy as we are today removed from past controversies over slavery and the internment of Japanese «Americans, and that this distance will be the consequence of having clearly and definitively rejected the injustice in question.

The week is ending with a real controversy over health secretary Andrew Lansley's decision to instigate snap inspections of abortion clinics, prompting a massive political row.

The controversy over the exemptions began two years ago, when it was revealed that the state arm of the abortion rights group NARAL had been granted an exemption, prompting Republicans to complain that the watchdog panel had created a disclosure - free avenue for political giving.

The controversy over teenagers» rights is probably greater than the more highly publicised row over abortion, she says.