Sentences with phrase «exceptions for rape»

But Reed, who formerly led the Christian Coalition, charges that the controversy around calls for abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest --- he says anti-abortion activists generally support abortions to save a mother's life - has been blown out of proportion by Democrats and liberals who want to paint the GOP as extremist.

Platform language adopted Tuesday calls for a constitutional abortion ban without making explicit exceptions for rape or incest.

I don't think you can be a pro-life feminist and yet acknowledge exceptions for rape and incest (if every life is valuable, are those that are the products of rape and incest somehow less valuable?).

The bill makes no exception for rape or incest victims.

Kasich did sign another bill preventing abortion at a later stage of gestation, but the Heartbeat Bill made no exception — no exception for rape, incest, nothing.

Not exact matches

The bill makes some exceptions for fetal abnormalities «incompatible with life,» threats to the life of the pregnant woman, and survivors of rape and incest who report the crimes perpetrated against them within 45 and 140 days, respectively.

Booker was in the middle of criticizing Republicans for not including a rape exception in their pro-life platform.

There is, for example, no rape or incest exception in English law.

Women in Islam are happy because they are committed to their families and their husband the same... THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS... JUST LIKE THERE IS SNOOP DOG WHO TALK CRAP ABOUT WOMEN THERE ARE EXTREMISTS WHO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM WHO ABUSE WOMEN... but just check out your local newspaper and count how many rapes happen in your town you will get an idea... or go to BET or MTV and was for yourself how women are treated....

To the extent that rape and incest exceptions have been advocated, said Reed, «it's been mostly for political viability and expediency.»

Exceptions exist for children born in multiple births, adopted children, non-parental care arrangements and what the Government call «non-consensual conception», more commonly referred to as the rape exception.

The legislation says credits may be used to buy only insurance that «does not include coverage for abortions,» with exceptions for abortions after rape or incest or that are necessary to save the life of the mother.

Extremist pro-life activists believe that abortion should be illegal in all cases except where it is medically necessary to save the mother's life (and where there is no hope of saving the child), whereas more moderate pro-lifers would allow exceptions for pregnancies resulting from the rape or incest of the mother.

The ban allowed for an abortion exception if the mother's life was in danger, but not in cases of other health risks, rape or incest.

Section 23 and 24 of the Sexual Offenses Act of 2003 do include exceptions for marriage and for prior sexual relations for sex with a person in a position of trust (Sections 16 - 19 of the Act), but not to Section 9 (statutory rape of someone below the age of consent).

This legislation provided no exception for survivors of rape, sexual assault or incest, and only very limited exceptions for the life and health of the woman and narrowly defined medical emergencies.