Sentences with phrase «debate over abortion»

Planned Parenthood, which receives about $ 500 million annually from the government, was hurled into the spotlight this summer after an anti-abortion group released several videos showing employees discussing the logistics of fetal tissue donation and reinvigorated the national debate over abortion.

The study, which comes as the national debate over abortion rages on and Planned Parenthood stays firmly in the spotlight, received funding from the Susan T. Buffett Foundation, a Planned Parenthood supporter.

I think the debate about whether we should design our children will replace the debate over abortion in the United States and become the object of discussion worldwide.

At times, the debate over intellectual property in the Internet age evokes an intensity that rivals the debate over abortion.

As such, the administration's action raises at least four objections having nothing to do with the usual debate over abortion:

On Jan. 22, the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Sojourners president Jim Wallis issued a statement calling for a change in the debate over abortion.

Over the last few months, certain intellectuals on both sides of the debate over abortion have publicly expressed newfound doubts about their side's positions and tactics.

Technological possibility will increasingly eclipse the very terms of our debate over abortion, and I suspect that «abortion politics» as we know it is on its way to being a relic of the past — a particularly brutal way we eliminated human life back when humans used to have children.

In the debate over abortion there has been much discussion surrounding «the seamless garment» as a metaphor for the so - called «life issues.»

The debate over abortion (most recently focused on what are called either «late - term» or «partial - birth «abortions, depending on your position) reveals a reluctance to look at the facts surrounding both sides of a serious issue out of fear that one might discover or publicize a fact that does not support one's stance.

Should one invoke the same arguments used in the debate over abortion, or is this a separate issue?

By claiming, for example, that Arkes has incorrectly interpreted the reasons for the Civil War and the debate over abortion, and has neglected to provide a fuller picture of the Founders and their beliefs, Prof. Smolin is presupposing a moral notion that is logically prior to his analysis: historical texts and events should be interpreted accurately.

All this debate over abortion misses the point.

Although neither topic is addressed in the film, how does this question tie into the debates over abortion and euthanasia?

For artists tackling today's hot topics like immigration, marriage equality and the enduring debates over abortion and gun rights, «This Will Have Been» exhibits crucial evidence of artists» contributions to the struggles of an era as troubled as our own.

Not exact matches

Thus, debates between, for example, Roman Catholic natural law theorists and secular feminist legal theorists over abortion are, for Posner, a waste of time, for neither theoretical approach possesses the tools to persuade anyone of contrary views.

Debates over how far to go in restricting abortion will likely extend all the way up to the Republican presidential primary, with likely candidates already working hard for Christian Right support.

However, contrary to the author's hopes, the abortion debate can not survive over the long term because the anti-abortion movement is based on the political right.

It was that consensus that unraveled in the debates over Vietnam, civil rights, abortion, sexual morality, women's issues, and the limits of tolerance.

I am referring to abortion polemics, specifically to the political, judicial, academic, and popular debate over its legality.

The abortion debate, as weary as we may be of it, is just the beginning of intensifying contestations over technical control and manipulation of the humanum.

Will traditional marriage follow the path of preborn life — an issue moving from judicial activism and socially elite proclamations that a generational shift was «inevitable» and «the debate is over» to our day decades later where the youngsters are more right minded about abortion than their parents.

Related to the third problem, above, there is no change in the public debates over cloning, abortion, euthanasia, and so on.

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.»

The very first argument advanced in the first congressional debates over extending Medicaid funding to abortion referred to the many millions of dollars in future welfare costs that abortion would save.

The discussion highlighted the need for a substantive parliamentary debate on the current abortion legislation since medical science and practice is raising serious questions over when the foetus becomes viable outside the womb, the current twenty - four week limit for «social» abortion and the growing number of doctors in the UK who are refusing to perform abortions because of the aforementioned.

To some extent, the debate is already over for Catholics as Amnesty sold the pass on sexuality years ago; the organisation already supports a right to contraception including the abortifacient morning - after pill, which it claims does not cause abortion, and affirms «sexual rights», a term which includes such gems as the right to a pleasurable sex life.

A terrible dilemma over the fate of a pregnant young mother throws a harsh light on the cost of the abortion debate.

The push would reignite a heated debate over the RHA, a measure that is aimed at the codification of Roe v. Wade in state law and is deeply opposed by opponents of abortion, who have argued it's a needless expansion of existing rights in New York.

This pattern of stronger female caution over abortion is mirrored across just about every aspect of the debate.

Democratic Senate candidate Adam Haber on Monday challenged Republican incumbent Jack Martins to a debate on women's equality, primarily over abortion rights.

Between the positions at either end of the spectrum, there is a range of ethical, political and medical debate about how easy access to abortion should be, which interests and factors should prevail over others, and how late terminations may be carried out.

Senate Republicans on Thursday blasted Assembly Democrats for failing to take action on any of the nine non-controversial elements of the Women's Equality Agenda, which was rolled out last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo but remains stymied by a debate over a controversial abortion plank.

The field of bioethics has addressed a broad swathe of human inquiry, ranging from debates over the boundaries of life (e.g. abortion, euthanasia), surrogacy, the allocation of scarce health care resources (e.g. organ donation, health care rationing) to the right to refuse medical care for religious or cultural reasons.

In light of the continued debate over Planned Parenthood, hinged heavily on the «abortion issue,» the normalization and realistic treatment of abortion in Obvious Child offers an important perspective for women all over America.

-- Obama has also failed to challenge fossilized foes of meaningful action on energy and climate change, from Senator James Inhofe to the many conservative columnists — along with some liberals — who've distorted the American discourse on climate into an either - or debate over beliefs little different than that on abortion or gun rights.

Debate continues among bloggers over whether five Supreme Court justices» Catholicism influenced their decision in the abortion case Gonzales.

The videos reignited a long - standing debate over the use of fetal tissue collected through abortions, fueled efforts seeking to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, re-energized arguments over whether public money should support Planned Parenthood and became the subject of a Republican - led investigation on Capitol Hill.