Sentences with phrase «in abortion procedures»

Doctors in Norway face pressure to participate in abortion procedures against their consciences.

The UK's highest court has overturned a ruling made in favour of two Catholic midwives who object to any involvement in abortion procedures.

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Despite the push by pro-life groups to limit abortion, the procedure remains legal in the U.S.

Abortion has long been a divisive issue in American politics, even though the procedure was legalized in a Supreme Court ruling more than 40 years ago.

Just as it is OK for a doctor to perform an operation or a medical procedure that has a good chance of causing an abortion in a pregnant woman.

Abortion, being a medical procedure, can be done in an environment where the woman will have the hgihest chance of a quick and safe procedure (for her at least).

Nino let Clarence Thomas take over reading the dissent in Stenberg v. Carhart, as their colleagues were willing to strike down a law in Nebraska that barred the grisly procedure known as «partial - birth abortion.»

Furthermore, as I became more involved in the feminist conversation (some feminists are pro-life, of course, but many are pro-choice), I began to understand some of the arguments against the criminalization of abortion, like that banning abortion does not necessarily reduce the abortion rate, that enforcing a ban on all abortions would be impossible, and that women would likely seek out abortions through unsafe, illegal procedures anyway.

truthfollower01, abortion is a legal medical procedure in most civilized countries.

As a result, states were permitted to outlaw abortion in the third trimester of pregnancy except when the procedure is necessary to preserve the life of the mother.»

Perhaps, people can identify themselves as pro-abortion or anti abortion in filing taxes, and therefore only taxpayers who fund abortion can claim government aid for the procedure.

Nothing revealed the radicalism of Roe quite so dramatically as the Court's invalidation of a Nebraska statute prohibiting the grisly procedure known as partial - birth abortion in the case of Stenberg v. Carhart.

They will be on the spot, especially if the Bush Administration proves to be creative and determined in pressing the legal implications of the Act when it comes to hospitals that allow the killing by exposure (or more direct means) of children who survive abortion procedures.

Defunding Planned Parenthood — which provides the majority of abortion procedures in the United States — has been at the center of the Republican political agenda for nearly two years.

(A case in point is that of a publicly supported, church - related hospital which is the only hospital in town and which refuses to permit certain medically accepted surgical procedures — such as abortion or tubal ligation — which are objectionable to the church but not to the patients of other faiths or no faith who depend upon that hospital for health care, and whose tax dollars support it.)

In Scotland, two Catholic midwives have taken their hospital employers to court after their manager insisted that they supervise abortion procedures against their will.

If he knowingly commits a post-24 weeks abortion, based on such stringent life and health criteria, the doctor must certify his judgment about the threat in writing; acquire the concurrence of a second doctor in that judgment based on a «separate personal medical examination» of the woman; perform the abortion in a hospital; employ procedures designed to maximize the unborn child's chances to survive; and have a second physician present, ready to consider any surviving child his primary patient.

Norma McCorvey, left, was 22, unmarried, unemployed and pregnant for the third time when in 1969 she sought to have an abortion in Texas, where the procedure was illegal except to save a woman's life.

Even the Democratic Party in 2012 removed the «rare» qualifier from their platform, moved by activists who want to erase any sense that abortion should be minimized any more than another medical procedure.

«Although public opinion on abortion has stayed relatively steady for four decades, support for legalizing the procedure under any circumstance spiked in the early 1990s, when today's fortysomethings were coming of age,» wrote Emma Green for The Atlantic in 2015.

«It is stomach - churning to hear a top doctor for the national Planned Parenthood organization admit, on videotape, that Planned Parenthood abortionists can and will alter late abortion procedures to facilitate the harvesting of intact baby body parts — she specifically mentioned hearts, lungs, livers, even intact heads — in order to fill specific pre-orders,» said National Right to Life president Carol Tobias in a statement.

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His exact words in regards to the procedure is that abortion should be «safe, legal and rare».

In the decades after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision ensured legal protection for abortion procedures nationwide, the anti-abortion movement was initially uncompromising in advocating across - the - board abortion bans at the state and national leveIn the decades after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision ensured legal protection for abortion procedures nationwide, the anti-abortion movement was initially uncompromising in advocating across - the - board abortion bans at the state and national levein advocating across - the - board abortion bans at the state and national level.

When parents choose to terminate a pregnancy because of severe medical conditions in the baby, the medical procedure is technically a second - trimester abortion or a «late - term» abortion — and it is technically elective because parents can choose whether to let nature take its course or to end the pregnancy.

being the largest provider of abortion services outside the NHS, performing over a third of all procedures in England and Wales each year.

«Andrew Cuomo supports partial birth abortion, a heinous procedure in which a live fetus is pulled from the womb and stabbed to death — we believe that is the extremist position.»

Before NOW - NYS supports this nominee, women need answers as to how Kagan will rule on issues of reproductive rights; abortion, contraception, and all forms of medical procedures that would affect a woman's privacy in making important decisions about her body.»

Hammond also said a provision in the House GOP plan to prohibit people from using the tax credits to buy insurance that covers abortion also bumps up against a Cuomo administration policy requiring state - regulated health plans to cover such procedures.

Proposals including Mr. Spitzer's plan to bolster state abortion laws in the wake of a Supreme Court decision restricting a disputed abortion procedure were not even the subject of serious talks.

This means that the vast majority of those seeking abortion in Northern Ireland will need to travel to access a safe, legal procedure.

Supporters deny that the bill expands partial birth abortion, they say that procedure is already outlawed in New York.

Amended and tentatively passed by the state Senate in one day in a 27 - 14 vote without any support from state Democrats, the bill would limit insurance coverage for abortions, require doctors to be present for the entire procedure, make gender - selective abortions illegal and require abortion clinics to meet the same licensing standards as surgical centers.

As reported this weekend in the New York Times, Governor Andrew Cuomo is set to propose changes to the state's policies on abortion as part of his «Women's Equality Act» introduced during his State of the State Address that include allow health care practitioners, not solely physicians, from performing the procedure.

One day when I was leaving a church service during that campaign, the cars in the parking lot were littered with flyers that depicted abortion procedures in a horrific way and associating it with my position on family reproductive health.

Abortion is just about the most emotionally - sensitive issue for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, but passions were kicked into overdrive in that afternoon's debate after Assemblyman Ron Castorina, a Republican who has been in the chamber for a little more than a month, compared the procedure to «African - American genocide.»

I have recently watched a short documentary about abortion and refusal of performing such procedures due to religious reasons in my native country.

On 2 March, representatives of more than 50 countries met in Brussels at the invitation of She Decides, an initiative launched by Dutch minister Lilianne Ploumen to push back against the so - called global gag rule, which denies US federal funding for non-governmental organisations that provide abortions or discuss the procedure.

The recent death of a woman in Ireland after allegedly being refused an abortion highlights the ethical case for the procedure, says a US obstetrician

Physicians must also certify that they have not altered any abortion procedures in order to collect tissue that is more intact and useful for research.

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In addition, it states that the abortion procedure specified by the law is not the safest or most effective method.

Second, President Obama signaled his intention to repeal a rule promulgated in the last days of the Bush administration that codified previous law ensuring that no health care providers at institutions receiving federal funds should be discriminated against for refusing to participate in abortion or sterilization procedures.

The medical profession appears to be divided, the researchers note, not just in its attitudes about providing controversial practices such as terminal sedation, abortion or birth control for teens, but also in its judgments about what doctors should do when patients request a legal procedure to which their doctor objects.

Among the charges Gosnell faces are murder in the death of a woman undergoing an abortion, murder in the deaths of four newborns, and performing late - term abortions beyond Pennsylvania's legal limit for such procedures.

In states like Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) have forced ridiculous rules onto clinics, doctors and patients to ultimately diminish the total number of abortion proAbortion Providers) have forced ridiculous rules onto clinics, doctors and patients to ultimately diminish the total number of abortion proabortion procedures.

Contraceptives, abortions, and sterilization procedures are subsidized in the country.

Today is a banner day for sane discussion of the medical procedure known as abortion, thanks to a plethora of articles in Tuesday's newspapers and Web sites that put the issue into legal, social and judicial context.

At issue in both is the federal law banning «partial birth abortion,» which Congress passed in the wake of the Court's 2000 decision Stenberg v. Carhart, which struck down a similar statute in Nebraska because it failed to include an exception that would allow the procedure if needed to protect the health of the mother.

A.R.S. § 36 - 2152, enacted in 2001, prohibits any physician from performing an abortion on an unemancipated minor without the written consent of one of the minor's parents or her guardian or conservator, or unless a judge of the superior court authorizes the physician to perform the abortion pursuant to prescribed procedures.