Sentences with phrase «for elective abortions»

Is it «sex discrimination» for a health - insurance company to refuse coverage for elective abortions?

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

Also you might like to know that there was an executive order issued by the president prohibiting the use of public funds for elective abortions which was pretty much the impetus that got the health care bill passed.

The health care bill specifically and by executive order states that no federal funds can be used to pay for elective abortions.

What has emerged of late, however, is something that natural law adherents opposed to elective abortion have long suspected: The real reason behind the liberal enthusiasm for elective abortion is precisely that it is «elective.»

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The article concludes: «For those Christians opposed to elective abortion, however, the issue becomes complicated because of the laudatory goals of those trying to help persons suffering from diabetes, Parkinson's, and other diseases.

Critics of the ruling said March for Life is «framing» its objection to contraception by linking it to elective abortion.

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.

By 1973, with the sexual revolution well underway, licensed doctors were increasingly performing elective abortions for their patients, but they were worried about criminal and civil liability.

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.

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.