Sentences with phrase «even as abortion»

For NARAL, the concern is something of an obvious one: Roe v. Wade remains the law of the land, even as abortion rights on the local level have been challenged.

Not exact matches

Personal responsibility as it relates to this situation for me would be to exhaust all other alternatives before even considering abortion.

Safe abortions will never go away as they are still needed to save life (even in the early 1900s doctors had to abort babies so at least the mother could live when tuberculosis was the leading cause of death and it was terminal for a pregnant mother).

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.

The court thus ruled that no nonreligious entity - even, as in the case of VHA, a membership organization whose members had raised a conscience objection to performing abortions - possessed the statutory right described in the exempting statute.

Even women seem to have opted out of the notion of abortion as a medical issue.

What is somewhat discomfiting about Percy as dialectician» and the dialectical is the principal aspect of his fiction, as well as central to his other work, including his interviews» is his seeming inconstancy in holding the advocates of tenderness to account in their various causes, even those separate from euthanasia and abortion, those other causes to which he himself is committed.

As far as abortion goes, the Bible NEVER mentions it by name and so never even calls it a sin or abominatioAs far as abortion goes, the Bible NEVER mentions it by name and so never even calls it a sin or abominatioas abortion goes, the Bible NEVER mentions it by name and so never even calls it a sin or abomination.

Now, as many of them argue for forcing others to do what they want, like forcing doctors to refer women to abortionists or even participate in abortions themselves, the traditional goal «has been thrown over in favor of a crusade to establish what might be called... «comprehensive liberalism» as the official pseudo-religion of the state.»

They say further that even if one does not equate a fetus with a child, as long as one attributes some value to the fetus» and they demonstrate how economists routinely make such outrageous calculations in insurance claims for loss of body parts» and put the value as low as one hundredth of a human being, the lowered crime rate would not come near justifying the number of abortions.

Debate about contraception, abortion, same - sex marriage, even Satan, has attracted just as much attention on the presidential campaign trail in recent weeks.

Even among Christians, for whom scripture should be a guide to life's challenges, many cling to the idea that issues such as abortion and the end of life are so complex that only a simple - minded person, unable to see two sides of an argument, could possibly take a firm stance.

On the topic of abortion, this approach is intrinsically pro-choice, because you are pro-choice, even if you are personally pro-life, so long as you don't impose your beliefs on others.

The response of the last government was essentially more of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.

Since morality, or beliefs, religious or otherwise, strike me as the key driving force (after all, I'm even posting this comment in CNN's «Belief Blog») in an anti-choice individuals logical reasoning for thinking the way they do, I would like to know exactly how making abortion illegal will help you sleep at night, or register as a moral victory.

Similarly, although many schools do excellent work promoting knowledge and understanding of racism and poverty, it is much rarer to find even Catholic schools having Pro-life Awareness Weeks as a standard annual whole - school activity in which pupils are encouraged to understand the justice and coherence of Church teaching on abortion and related issues.

Even before Roe v. Wade, he wrote and spoke against abortion on demand and served as president of the National Right to Life Committee.

Since the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Morgentaler (1988) holding even relatively minor criminal code restrictions on abortion contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (on similar» and similarly spurious» grounds as those of the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade), Canada has been without restrictions on abortion.

«As originally proposed, the 2003 state bill, SB 1082, sought to define the term «born - alive infant» as any infant, even one born as the result of an unsuccessful abortion, that shows vital signs separate from its motheAs originally proposed, the 2003 state bill, SB 1082, sought to define the term «born - alive infant» as any infant, even one born as the result of an unsuccessful abortion, that shows vital signs separate from its motheas any infant, even one born as the result of an unsuccessful abortion, that shows vital signs separate from its motheas the result of an unsuccessful abortion, that shows vital signs separate from its mother.

Embracing an apparent relativism and anti-intellectualism, Prof. Smolin writes: «Even if we immediately restored the preeminence of natural rights / natural law discourse to our national jurisprudence and politics, abortion rights activists would still find ways of justifying the abortion right in that mode of discourse, just as prior generations justified the enslavement of African Americans through invoking God, the nature of things, and the Bible.»

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro Carambula, the director of the Rome office of Human Life International, told LifeSiteNews «that the banning of bullfighting in Spain... even as [the government promotes] abortion, represents a triumph of newly invented moral values based on arbitrary «progressive» whims and social fads.»

Whether the issue has been abortion, or euthanasia, or «gay rights,» the courts have taken steps that were noticeable even at the time as novel and portentous.

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 grandparents of today who accepted this consent with relief became in some cases the «condoning generation» with regard to abortion in difficult cases with the result that many mothers today, even within our own community, carry the burden of a decision that was sold to them as a solution to their problem pregnancy.

And it was Doe's broad definition of «health» as «well - being» that the Court would later use to strike down even bans on the cruel procedure known as partial - birth abortion.

The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»

An awful lot of people who are otherwise conservative and even think of themselves as pro-life nonetheless obtain abortions at a rate comparable to that of people who champion Roe.

Polling shows the majority of Americans oppose public funding for abortion, even those who identify as pro-choice.

I think there is, in as much as about 70 percent of Americans disapprove of convenience abortions even in the first trimester of pregnancy, and in as much as people like me, when they come to consider the question seriously, have sometimes changed their minds.

Even many of those who favor lower taxes (or at least oppose higher taxes) and abortion restrictions don't know the Republican Party as anything other than a vehicle for upper - class interest group politics and white identity politics.

And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?

The battle between Driehaus and a group of progressive Catholic supporters on the one hand and religious conservatives on the other is a reminder that abortion has become a key issue in the midterm elections in parts of the country, even as the economy and jobs remain voters» top concern.

Clearly you need to do some more reading on what the contraceptive mentality is and how it distorts our views on babies, and how even the Supreme Court has described abortion as a fall - back when contraceptives fail (which they do).

Various connectors that trigger the memory of a past abortion, such as the death of a loved one, sounds (like that of a hoover, recalling the sound of the suction during the procedure) or even weather, can induce these symptoms unexpectedly.

Much as most English Catholics love Her Majesty the Queen, many of us felt just a little uneasywhen it became known that she referred to the late Cardinal Hume as «my Cardinal», and not entirely enthused by television images of Her Majesty attending Vespers at Westminster Cathedral, for all the world as if it was Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey: not because such ecumenical gestures are in themselves a bad thing, but because this one seemed all too likely to be have been a reward to the English Church for no longer making so much of a nuisance of itself, as it could have done, for instance, by criticising the supposedly Catholic - minded Tony Blair for his wholehearted support for abortion (including abortion up to term)- a stance which, north of the border, had led the late Cardinal Winning to utter a series of blistering denunciations of the Prime Minister even during NewLabour's honeymoon years.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

Thus a young instructor applying for a job in an elite university is well advised to hide «unsound» views such as political allegiance to the right wing of the Republican party (perhaps even to the left wing), opposition to abortion or to other causes of the feminist movement, or a strong commitment to the virtues of the corporation.

Afraid of being branded as moralists, or even worse, proselytizers, politicians cling to surface arguments that remain in the public's comfort zone, choosing sides in the familiar debates on school prayer, pornography, media immorality and abortion.

«As the conscious and legally competent entity in the conception set - up, it's the woman's say that counts, and even the most terrible reason for having an abortion holds more sway than the best imaginable reason for compelling a woman to carry to term.»

JohnQuest, I am just curious as to what he can talk about...... if there are so many opinions that he must «respect»............ if he speaks up about Truth in, say, abortion, won't he be siding with someone or against someone who holds the same opinion even without mentioning their political names?

Writing on the website Spiked, Ann Furedi, the head of BPAS (the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, a euphemism similar to «Planned Parenthood»), notes that «most people who think of themselves as liberal and modern - thinking believe that rape, incest, youth, poverty or even general «unwantedness» are «good reasons» for doctors to approve abortion; and they think «sex selection» is a bad reason, which should be stopped.»

Second, it should be noted that it can be extremely difficult even for a trained doctor to determine whether a woman in the first trimester of pregnancy is experiencing life - threatening complications as a result of miscarriage or abortion.

She can no longer trust what some of us might think of as her better side, explaining that if she had another child she would feel even worse because she would be admitting that the decision to have the abortion was a dreadful mistake, admitting that she and her husband «could in fact have managed to care for another life.»

In his article, Instone - Brewer ridiculously caricatures the Catholic theological answer to this question, erroneously describing it as having to do with the act of sex itself, and even as making a moral equivalence between abortion and artificial contraception.

Is it equally legitimate for Catholic apologists for legal abortion, and even its facilitation by public funding, to appeal to Aquinas» teaching about the toleration of evil, as Mario Cuomo, for example, has done?

Yet, in White's hands, that inescapable truth — what should have stood as the predicate for any serious discussion of abortion — was treated as a matter hardly worthy even of notice.

These judges had a demoralizing effect on conservatives when they defected on the matter of abortion, and Kennedy even more so as he advanced the case for gay rights along a path that surely led to same - sex marriage — as Justice Scalia clearly saw and sharply warned.

Or a majority might even have been assembled to sustain the laws on abortion, as a majority on the Court had been assembled, just two years earlier, in U.S. v. Vuitch, to sustain a law on abortion in the District of Columbia.

The dissenting opinions would have exposed Blackmun's opinion, in the plainest way, as a caricature composed of half - truths and untruths, including a «history» of abortion that was recognized even at the time as thoroughly false.

Justice White was even more emphatic about the grounds on which abortions could be regarded, in his judgment, as not only unjustified, but debased: