Sentences with phrase «fights over abortion»

Others discussed how to deal with skeptics, some displaying a hostility to contrarians that seemed surprising to people who haven't followed the growing nastiness of the fight against global - warming science, which has come to resemble the fights over abortion and evolution.

The president's policy proposals have also hinted at fights over abortion and doctor - assisted suicide.

The new chair of the House Rules Committee came under attack for proposing a constitutionally questionable procedural maneuver to pass the controversial Affordable Care Act in 2010, refused to hold town hall meetings during the height of the Tea Party movement, and compared Republicans to Nazis during a fight over abortion access in 2011.

The fight over abortion and what it means to be a Democrat has boiled over in recent months.

Not exact matches

For single women, pick a fight over contraception with the Catholic Church and run a national convention in which the centrality of abortion rights startled even seasoned observers.

I have great admiration for the courage and the indefatigable spirit that George and Ryan Anderson have shown in the fight against abortion and in the protracted battle over «same sex marriage.»

The recent fight over taxpayer funding of abortion in the national health - care bill revealed not only that pro-life Democrats exist in the U.S. Congress but also that they come in three distinct types: stalwarts, sellouts, and snakes.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Since May, Cuomo's state Democratic Committee has served as the conduit for all things anti-Astorino: His fight with the Department of Housing and Urban Development over affordable housing, his conservative stance on abortion and a lawsuit filed against him stemming from the obscure battles within the Independence Party in Westchester County.

As in many races around the country, female voters are being fought over in Washington state's 1st district, where the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this week launched a $ 250,000 ad buy targeting GOP nominee John Koster's strong opposition to abortion.

It's how he's run his entire front - running campaign, though, reportedly, «[s] ome of Mr. Cuomo's aides believe that New Yorkers will want to see Mr. Cuomo show a fighting spirit and lay into Mr. Paladino over his remarks about sexual orientation, abortion and people who receive public assistance.»

A fight brakes out over a meal at the family gathering where his adult offspring accuses their father of amoral actions he committed under the Ceaușescu regime while working as a doctor where he revealed the identities of abortion - seekers to the authorities.

Kansans for Life, the state's largest anti-abortion organization, fought for weeks to maintain a clause in the legislation designed to discourage a court challenge over its ban on drug - induced abortions.

If the context behind the arguments is not included, the public just sees dispute, and can simply lump a science fight with those over abortion, gun rights, energy policy and other issues framed by ideology or values as much as (or more than) data.

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