Likewise there is discussion whether medical personnel should have to
participate in abortions in institutions that employ them.
Of the nine states that implemented these types of laws, eight had larger - than - average
declines in abortion clinics.
Doctors
in abortion clinics have been signing consent forms before the woman had been seen, the government claimed today.
This reaction to stigma
results in abortions being kept secret particularly from people who opposed to abortion, she observes.
Most of the countries where abortion is illegal also suffer from widespread poverty and limited access to contraception — huge drivers
in the abortion rate.
The slope of the decline in maternal mortality «did not appear to be altered by the
change in abortion law,» according to the researchers.
The ending of that possibility is more serious than the suffering and present loss
involved in abortion.
It was the latest and, they had hoped, the last in the lengthy legal process the two midwives had endured to uphold the right of conscientious objection to
participation in abortion.
The bill also seeks to prevent abortion providers who, it is argued, have a vested financial
interest in the abortion proceeding, from being the source of that information and advice.
This line of argument not only assumes that the drug is effective, but also misses the most important question
in the abortion conflict.
We see this not
just in abortion, but in the crisis of homelessness, in the lives wasted by addiction.
The
intention in abortion and contraception is always either to kill or to prevent a child from coming into being by frustrating the natural sexual act.
For those of us who think that the lives
destroyed in abortion are human lives, that seems to be exactly the state of things right now.
A clause was added providing that no hospital or person was required to
participate in an abortion or would be legally liable for refusing to do so.
But the debate continues with the pro-choice groups still calling for the changes sought by the 2008 amendments and the pro-life groups still seeking a
reduction in the abortion time limit.
Her presidency coincided with a turn
in the abortion rights movement toward a much more aggressive stance toward dissidence,» said Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Debate continues among bloggers over whether five Supreme Court justices» Catholicism influenced their decision
in the abortion case Gonzales.
Considered collectively, official church statements on ethical questions seem to point to a possible solution to this
issue in the abortion debate, a solution that may even point toward a broader social consensus on abortion.
Now the MSM has entered the fray, with a piece yesterday in The Washington Post asking, Did Justices» Catholicism Play
Part in Abortion Ruling?
The court held that the statutory conscience clause for health care providers
in the Abortion Act 1967 does not apply to midwives.
Campaigners for a reduction
in the abortion limit from 24 to 20 weeks received a blow today as a report suggested increases in survival rates of premature babies was so slight it could be down to chance.
Of course, Ms. Crandall adds, «there was probably something disingenuous even at the
time in abortion advocates» concern for children.»