Sentences with phrase «elective abortion in»

Until recently, those in favor of elective abortion in our society confined their arguments to the question of the personhood of the fetus.

But the right is nonetheless at the heart of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade that permitted elective abortion in our society.

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All persons enrolled in insurance plans in State Exchanges that include elective abortion coverage to pay a separate premium straight from their paychecks to fund all types of elective abortion (ObamaCare Sec. 1303 (b)(1) & (2), Pg.

In its famous 1973 decision Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court mandated elective abortion up to viability, and abortion for broadly defined «health» reasons (i.e., virtually elective abortion) thereafter.

Unfortunately for that argument, the physician who is the best - known practitioner of these abortions stated in 1993 that 80 percent of them are «purely elective,» not necessary to save the mother's life or health.

She has also advocated for ending the pro-life Hyde Amendment, first enacted in 1976 and passed in some form ever since, which prevents taxpayer funding of elective abortions through federal programs like Medicaid.

It is difficult to know whether Justice Kennedy is having pangs of conscience for his role in preserving elective abortion.

Faculty at two Catholic colleges in California are upset that their administrations have dropped coverage for elective abortions from the....

In Roe (1973), it included elective abortion.

When parents choose to terminate a pregnancy because of severe medical conditions in the baby, the medical procedure is technically a second - trimester abortion or a «late - term» abortion — and it is technically elective because parents can choose whether to let nature take its course or to end the pregnancy.

Since the vast majority of abortions in the United States are elective (i.e. not connected to health concerns of the fetus or mother, and not due to rape or incest), the central issue surrounding the abortion debate is a moral argument.

To better understand how the different pieces of the immune system develop, immunologists Florent Ginhoux and Naomi McGovern at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) in Singapore and their colleagues studied tissue from nearly 100 elective abortions performed between 14 and 22 weeks of gestation.

I think it is hard to argue that there is a pressing need for law or regulation in regard to late term abortion because the reality is that elective late term abortion is rarely happening and when it does happen it is for criteria that are generally deemed by the general public to be acceptable.