Sentences with phrase «focus on abortion»

Attached is an assessment on Christianity and Medical Ethics with a focus on abortion.

Focus on Abortion Rights

«Pope Seeks Less Focus on Abortion, Gays, Contraception,» followed USA Today.

Bush got 56 % -43 % As of now, McCain lead by just 51 % -49 % This was despite an aggressive push by more than 50 Bishops to encourage Catholics to focus on abortion as the central issue.

There are real political issues out there and they focus on abortion, as China continues to grow as a world power.

You see, instead of working on the problems that really plague us — poverty, hunger, families» homes being foreclosed — the religious right focused on abortion and gay marriage.

My biggest issue that the religious - right is so focused on abortion.

... Not focused on abortion, but inclusive of gun control, warmongering, immigration, and the death penalty!

Last September, the General Accounting Office (GAO) issued a report focusing on abortion services available in those 36 states, where www.healthcare.gov offers health plans.

Only focusing on abortion.

Governor Cuomo is making women's rights a central focus of his campaign, focusing on an abortion rights provision.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is making women's rights a pillar of his campaign and is focusing on an abortion rights provision.

But lawmakers are divided over one of the provisions, which focuses on abortion rights.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is making women's rights a central focus of his campaign, focusing on an abortion rights provision.

A GCSE lesson focusing on the abortion law in the UK and how it relates to Christian teaching using sources of wisdom and authority as well as a link to the Hippocratic Oath.

The Huffington Post blog also discussed the message challenge in a piece focused on abortion, and another US healthcare blog, KevinMD, looked at the issue from the perspective of dealing with cancer patients.

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On abortion, another key topic for social conservatives, Harper said while running against Day that the Alliance could not afford to focus on the issuOn abortion, another key topic for social conservatives, Harper said while running against Day that the Alliance could not afford to focus on the issuon the issue.

It seems to make more sense for Republicans to focus policy proposals on parental rights and restrictions on late - term abortion while noting that - whatever their ultimate beliefs - some abortion restrictions are very unlikely to happen in any foreseeable future while third trimester abortion on - demand is a reality.

«Too focused on social justice and not enough on opposing abortion, euthanasia and same - sex marriage.»

It seems to me that the right - wing of this country is more focused on fire and brimstone issues that divide us like gay marriage and abortion just so they can avoid the fact that their primary reason for their economic platform is to feed people's greed.

But the intense focus on partial - birth abortion had a different purpose.

By focusing exclusively on the legal components of abortion while simultaneously opposing these family - friendly social policies, the Republican Party has managed to hold pro-life voters hostage with the promise of outlawing abortion, (which has yet to happen under any Republican administrations since Roe v. Wade), while actively working against the very policies that would lead to a significant reduction in unwanted pregnancies.

CNN: Survey: Catholics divided on political issues, as adherent numbers decline As important as the Catholic vote is in the 2012 election, a new survey finds that the group is far from monolithic and is not largely focused on the issues that get a lot of attention from church leaders — abortion and gay marriage.

Washington (CNN)-- As important as the Catholic vote is in the 2012 election, a new survey finds that the group is far from monolithic and is not largely focused on the issues that get a lot of attention from church leaders — abortion and gay marriage.

If they really want to end abortions so badly, they should be focused on the latter.

Throwing out a statement like «Christians should give up trying to make abortion illegal & instead focus on preventing unwanted pregnancy and reforming adoption.»

Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.»

When we get hung up on imposing our beliefs about abortion and marriage, we loose focus on what really matters — Showing Christ's Love.

The debate over abortion (most recently focused on what are called either «late - term» or «partial - birth «abortions, depending on your position) reveals a reluctance to look at the facts surrounding both sides of a serious issue out of fear that one might discover or publicize a fact that does not support one's stance.

I'm saying that gay marriage and abortion ARE fundamental to the church, so why focus on some fundamentals and not others?

If the client is getting on birth control make this the focus of the visit and put a note in the chief complaints that the client had a surgical or medical abortion «x» weeks ago.

Despite the fact that Hartshorne believes all creatures are intrinsically valuable to God, when he discusses abortion he focuses on the only value humans contribute, excluding non-rational creatures.

Third, I will treat in detail the Hartshornian stance regarding abortion, a stance with which I agree, both to illustrate the aforementioned connection between moderation in metaphysics and moderation in ethics as well as to combat the charge that virtue ethics, because it focuses more on the character of agents than on their acts, is incapable of treating the really difficult issues in applied ethics.

This may be a difficult fact to keep in sight, however, for in discussing abortion Hartshorne consistently focuses on the variations in creaturely value, which are represented by movement up or down the creaturely continuum.

Nearly seven in 10 American Catholics say the church has become too focused on same - sex marriage, abortion, and contraceptives, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released Friday.

The report also alleged sins of omission, saying the nuns were too focused heavily on social justice and not enough on opposing abortion, euthanasia and same - sex marriage.

First, given that it is true that some Christians focus more on these two issue, but the fact still remains «abortion» is murder of an innocent baby, and sodomy is explicitly condemned in the bible.

«There are a number of Democratic members of Congress who are calling themselves pro-life, but it's hard to do that after voting for healthcare, which was the largest expansion of abortion we've seen,» says Tom Minnery, senior vice president of CitizenLink, a conservative advocacy group connected to Focus on the Family that is also spending money this cycle.

Holding placards with slogans like «Bums on the Bus» and «Romney - Ryan Yes, Fake Nuns No,» the protesters focused their fire on the abortion issue, accusing the sisters of not being sufficiently anti-abortion.

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts can not be ignored.

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.

His job is to focus on the task at hand, whether exploring «Abortion in Halakhic Literature,» «The Sanctity of the Liberated Territories,» «Teaching Torah to Non-Jews,» «Animal Experimentation,» or «Mental Incompetence and Its Implications in Jewish Law» — sample titles from the three volumes of Contemporary Halakhic Problems.

It says, «Many pro-life advocacy efforts have focused on the legal status of abortion, rather than addressing prevention of unplanned pregnancy and the needs of pregnant women and families.

The conference — cohosted by the ERLC and Focus on the Family — features more than 50 speakers addressing not only abortion but such issues as adoption, end - of - life care, ministry to those with special needs, human trafficking, service to immigrants and refugees, and the development of a pro-life worldview.

Sometimes, leaders find that their partnerships and relationships require bracketing the abortion issue to an extent so that both parties can focus on a litany of other humanitarian and family concerns that women find themselves drawn to.

CNN thoroughly examines six big changes that mark pivots from the previous 40 years» worth of rallies, including how the rally no longer focuses exclusively on abortion or Roe v. Wade, but this year centers upon a new theme: adoption.

Most churches don't have the cojones to harp on a Christian's duty to the poor and instead focus on gays or abortion.

Thomas Jacobson of Focus on the Family has counted 58 countries that were pressured to liberalize their abortion laws between 1997 and 2007.

They rule out selective abortion of defective fetuses, and they focus our attention on therapies aimed at somatic cells rather than germ cells.

Debates about this will easily generate much more heat than light unless the energy of both sides is focused on the right question, which is: «Given that 200,000 abortions a year is far too many, how can a deliverable change in the law most effectively reduce that number?»