A person's right to make their own
decisions about abortion should NOT depend on who they are or where they live.
According to research from the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, nearly three - quarters (74 percent) of Latino registered voters support a woman's ability to make personal, private
decisions about abortion.
When it comes to family planning,
decisions about abortion, adoption, and raising a child can have long - lasting implications for both parents.
They are used in making
decisions about abortion after prenatal diagnosis.
It may protect the rights of youth to make moral
decisions about abortion and contraception without the knowledge, and against the moral guidance, of their parents.
Charles Hartshorne believed that no other person and certainly no governmental body should dictate a woman's
decision about abortion.
Not exact matches
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-life.
From Nicole Brodeur's column, «Swedish
Abortion Decision: How
About Respect for Patients?»
Dvd... SCOTUS also said
abortion was legal, yet that has not stopped Christians from whining
about that
decision for decades!
And Emilia's
decision to keep her fears
about pregnancy a secret and her possible choice to have an
abortion?
On the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's 1973
decision legalizing
abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced her misgivings
about the ruling.
One of our major issues in
abortion and
decisions on its use are not made rationally they are made by some because of religious beliefs (remember
about the wars).
Even so, Hartshorne takes a solidly pro-choice stance: that no one can fully understand the complexities an individual weighs when making a
decision about a pregnancy; that no governmental body is entitled to dictate to individuals what the available choices are, including
abortion; and that ultimately the woman directly involved has the right to make a
decision about her commitment to a pregnancy without moral condemnation.
Here's the bottom line: the final
decision when it comes to
abortion should be left to one person, and one person only: the woman thinking
about having one.
Let there be no mistake
about the impact of the Roe and Doe
decisions: they did not «liberalize»
abortion law; they abolished
abortion law in all fifty states.
Many, including Pope Francis, have spoken
about the gut - wrenching
decision which
abortion is for many people, and I do not wish to deny that.
Women's experiences with
abortion are unpleasant, to say the least, but because court
decisions have privatized
abortion, it is difficult to gather reliable data
about the immediate and long - term effects of
abortion.
For women making
decisions about having
abortions, moral agency is often a luxury canceled out by social, economic and psychological suffering.
Buckley bore the gravest moral objections to
abortion, and he expressed his deep incredulity with the
decision: It seemed to betray, he thought, a flippant disregard for the facts known well to embryology
about the development of the child in the womb.
At Open Adoption & Family Services, we support pregnant women and couples in making
decisions about their pregnancy options — parenting,
abortion, adoption — in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.
Part of the difficulty with creating a new understanding of adoption - including the women who chose it, the families who adopt, and the children who are adopted - is combating archaic adoption practices that not only reinforce negative stereotypes, but also do an incredible disservice to what adoption can be - that is, adoption is a legitimate pregnancy option for all women faced with a pregnancy
decision, regardless of whether they identify as «pro-life» or «pro-choice,» religious or not, conservative or liberal... In the face of a pregnancy
decision, the women who choose adoption feel no more part of the political discussion around it then the women who choose
abortion feel
about the political rhetoric characterizing their
decision.
Following the UK government's
decision last month to devolve
abortion law to Holyrood, Scotland has been awash with speculation
about how this will affect Scottish women's reproductive rights.
The Post has previously reported on Sattler's controversial
decision — in the custody case of Manuel Mehos versus Lisa Mehos — to allow evidence
about the woman's post divorce
abortion.
Before NOW - NYS supports this nominee, women need answers as to how Kagan will rule on issues of reproductive rights;
abortion, contraception, and all forms of medical procedures that would affect a woman's privacy in making important
decisions about her body.»
Long had previously told me that she believed Roe v. Wade was a «horrible
decision from a constitutional law standpoint,» and that «if Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice, because the states are legislating their own laws
about abortion, completely independent.»
The law also permits
abortions by «a qualified, licensed healthcare practitioner,» a standard which might expand beyond physicians, leading to questions
about the suitability of the healthcare personnel making
decisions with women.
Partly as a legacy of the way the
abortion decisions came
about in this country and the degree to which
abortion is important in American politics, killing and destruction - of - life questions have come to be regarded as the bioethical questions, whether it's euthanasia at the end of life or
abortion and embryo destruction at the beginning.
Participants were asked 20 questions that posed various moral dilemmas, including
decisions about murder, torture, lying,
abortion, and animal research.
We wrote here earlier this week
about the Catholic connection — University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey R. Stone's post at the American Constitution Society's ACSBlog in which he suggests that religious affiliation may be the key to explaining last week's Supreme Court
decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, upholding a federal law prohibiting so - called partial birth
abortions.
Before your
abortion, you'll meet with your nurse, doctor, or health center counselor to talk
about whether
abortion is the right
decision for you, and what your
abortion options are.
Foes of safe, legal
abortion also have stepped up their use of state legislation to thwart personal, private medical
decisions about pregnancy that are best left between a woman and her doctor.
The
decision to terminate a pregnancy is never an easy one, and Planned Parenthood of Michigan (PPMI) offers unbiased, accurate information
about the options available for pregnancy termination, medication
abortion and surgical
abortion.
But these figures alone can be misleading, and Pollitt does an excellent job of unpacking them and showing the contradictions in our views, as well as the limits to what surveys can tell us
about the
decisions Americans make for themselves (an old
abortion joke, according to Pollitt: «When should
abortion be legal?
At Open Adoption & Family Services, we support pregnant women and couples in making
decisions about their pregnancy options — parenting,
abortion, adoption — in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.
Before you take any medication you'll also need to meet with health center staff to talk
about whether
abortion is the right
decision for you and what your
abortion options are, have an exam and lab tests, and read and sign forms.
WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America denounced today's House Judiciary Committee passage of dangerous and unconstitutional legislation that would ban
abortion at 20 weeks nationwide — interfering in a woman's ability to make personal
decisions about her pregnancy in consultation with her doctor.
Learning the facts
about abortion may help you in making your
decision.
She decided to write
about her
decision to have an
abortion after her IUD failed.
If enacted, so - called «personhood» measures could interfere with personal, private, medical
decisions relating to
decisions about birth control, access to fertility treatment, management of a miscarriage, and access to safe and legal
abortion.
Amid my major misgivings
about abortion, I eventually made the gut - wrenching
decision... In my heart, I believed I had taken a life — an action that I thought God might one day punish me for.