Sentences with phrase «includes abortion rights»

Women's groups rallied outside the New York State Senate chamber Thursday, demanding a vote on Governor Cuomo's 10 - point women's equality act that includes an abortion rights provision.

But the GOP has opposed the governor on other items, like a Women's Equality Act that includes an abortion rights provision, and decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana.

The two factions could not agree on campaign finance reforms, or a portion of a women's equality act that includes abortion rights.

Women's groups rallied outside the New York state Senate chamber, demanding a vote on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 10 - point women's equality act — that includes an abortion rights provision.

Advocates took out their anger and frustration on the Cuomo administration and leaders of the state Senate, after it became clear that a progressive agenda that includes abortion rights and public campaign financing is likely dead for the legislative session.

Family Planning Advocates, as well as the Women's Equality Coalition, have lobbied heavily on women's health issues, including abortion rights.

This sounds a lot like Cuomo's explanation during the last legislative session on why he wasn't able to land a deal on all 10 points of his Women's Equality Agenda — including the abortion rights plank, which the Senate Republicans staunchly refused to allow onto the floor for a vote.

But it is expected to include an abortion rights measure.

In the spring of 2013, Cuomo issued a women's equality agenda that included abortion rights protections that stood little chance of passing the new GOP - led senate.

Silver says the weaker bills were negotiated originally as part of a package that was supposed to also include the abortion rights provision, but the deal ultimately fell through.

State lawmakers are moving ahead with approving some portions of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act, now that supporters are no longer demanding that all of the items, including an abortion rights provision, be tied together.

That's why they've begun having surrogates like state Sen. Tim Kennedy (D - Buffalo) attack Astorino on a range of issues including abortion rights, and the controversial Common Core public - school curriculum.

The state Catholic lobby, though, is dismayed that all of those items, including the abortion rights provisions, are part of the same package of legislation.

His slide began shortly after his State of the State message, where he outlined a progressive agenda, including a women's equality act that included an abortion rights provision, public financing of political campaigns, and strict new gun control laws.

State lawmakers are moving ahead with approving some portions of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act, now that supporters are no longer demanding that all of the items, including an abortion rights provision, be tied together.

Cuomo has tried to salvage his women's agenda, asking the state Assembly to come back for a special session to act on the other items in the package that do not include abortion rights that the Senate already passed.

Not exact matches

And Giuliani shifted right on a number of issues — including gun control and public funding of abortions — during his failed presidential run four years later.

And Giuliani shifted right on a number of issues - including gun control and public funding of abortions - during his failed presidential run four years later.

Most religions have consistently resisted progress — including the abolition of slavery; women's right to vote and choose contraception and abortion; medical developments such as the use of anesthesia; scientific understanding of the heliocentric solar system and evolution, and the American principle of state / church separation.

The main problems with the religious right, Harris says, include disregard for poverty and international justice (particularly for women), obsession over the issues of abortion and gay marriage, and a mindset that generally embraces greed - centered capitalism.

The term «reproductive rights» has come to include abortion.

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.»

In the same way, if we are, as the abortion - choice movement must assume, bearers of moral rights by nature (including the «right to choose»), then there can be no right to abortion, for the one who has the «right to choose» is identical to her prenatal self.

These agents include people like Larry Pratt, a far - right Washington lobbyist on guns and abortion whose less savory affiliations led to his resignation as national cochairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign.

(Examples, in addition to the statements on abortion cited above, include a 1970 LCA statement on ecology, a 1979 UCC statement on human rights and at least two statements by the National Council of Churches — a 1979 statement on energy and a 1986 statement on genetic science.)

They listen to the new religious conservative movement calling for «a return to the traditional family,» which seems to include the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment and the banning of abortion.

The statement, signed by major religious - right figures like James Dobson, was also signed by proponents of the Come Let Us Reason Together abortion - reduction strategy, including Wallis and Mercer University Christian ethics professor David Gushee.

See paragraph 89 of the Center's lawsuit, which alleges that «CRLP advocates» for «interpretations of existing treaties and other international human rights agreements that favor protection of reproductive rights, including abortion, as internationally recognized human rights.»

Of course she says nothing about her husband's policy of overlooking human rights violations by China, including the slave labor of uncounted thousands and forced abortions for pregnant women with more than one child.

Then, once the «reproductive rights» language is adopted, CRLP and others take that language back to the legal systems of the participating nations and claim (as the CRLP did in its own lawsuit) that such «agreements... favor protection of reproductive rights, including abortion, as internationally recognized human rights.»

If we measure left and right by support for or opposition to abortion and Bill Clinton, which is a reasonable measure in this case, twelve of the groups represented are very far left indeed — including Catholics for a Free Choice, Human Rights Campaign (a leading gay rights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive CRights Campaign (a leading gay rights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Crights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

(25) And these most definitely include the «right» to an abortion: «women have the right to decide freely and responsibly the number, timing and spacing of their children, as established by international human rights law.»

Even so, Hartshorne takes a solidly pro-choice stance: that no one can fully understand the complexities an individual weighs when making a decision about a pregnancy; that no governmental body is entitled to dictate to individuals what the available choices are, including abortion; and that ultimately the woman directly involved has the right to make a decision about her commitment to a pregnancy without moral condemnation.

The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay.

The right likes to force their beliefs on others, including PRETENDING that the Bible ever mentions the word «abortion».

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.

Ask delegates and U.N. staff whether «reproductive rights» includes abortions, and they will say that it does.

Everyone, including employers, have rights, and those rights include freedom to choose to not pay for your birth control, abortion or any other thing that are your choices.

However, since that time, dedicated abortion advocates have asserted abortion as a reproductive right so thoroughly at the international level that the term is no longer understood to include that limitation.

And this has consequences for contemporary human rights issues, including abortion, euthanasia, human trafcking, war, etc..

HHS positioned the shift as part of its «major actions to protect conscience rights and life,» including a new proposed rule to better enforce 25 federal protections for health care providers who decline to perform abortions and other services, as well as yesterday's announcement of a new division dedicated to fielding such complaints.

These have included a debate entitled «Abortion: Right or Rights Violation?»

The new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the existing Office of Civil Rights (OCR) enforces existing laws designed to protect conscience rights, including new provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted suRights (OCR) enforces existing laws designed to protect conscience rights, including new provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted surights, including new provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted suicide.

The right not to bear children includes abortion as a means of last resort.

Catholics, right wing xstians, it matters not, because they are all against birth control and abortion, which means THEY are the ones that really have no love or concern for the future of humanity, (including their children, grandchildren, and following offspring.)

This implies a number of things, including the view that the right to life prevails over the mother's right to abortion.

To some extent, the debate is already over for Catholics as Amnesty sold the pass on sexuality years ago; the organisation already supports a right to contraception including the abortifacient morning - after pill, which it claims does not cause abortion, and affirms «sexual rights», a term which includes such gems as the right to a pleasurable sex life.

Ashley at Let Me Entertain You is concerned about women's rights and wrote yesterday about a proposed regulation by the Department of Health and Human Services «that could seriously undermine access to basic reproductive health services, including birth control and abortion.»

Other issues that will receive the same treatment include legislation that would allow NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise income taxes on the rich to fund pre-K, the public campaign finance bill and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act (assuming that it includes the abortion - rights plank, which is the piece the right finds most offensive).

Will the Senate GOP be as willing to compromise on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's women's equality legislation that includes a strengthening of abortion and reproductive rights?