Sentences with phrase «issue than abortion»

Pro-life churches and organizations should especially be suspicious when gay marriage is given more prominence as an issue than abortion.

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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.

I suppose not, but I do think a woman choosing to get an abortion for anything less than a medical issue or crime is not good.

That's a good point, our government is racking up debt faster than locust on a wheat field, and we're arguing about gay - marriage, race and still abortion issues.

On abortion the middle is extremely small, smaller than on most issues.

Governmental indifference to contraception was soon construed to imply governmental indifference to abortion, via the misconstrual of abortion as a matter of sexual privacy rather than as a matter of public justice; and the «right to abortion» soon became a defining issue in our politics.

@Jen» the issue is much deeper than abortion which the church needs to address, (ie., fix the root cause)» = > agreed..

However, the sad truth is that 1) the issue is much deeper than abortion which the church needs to address, (ie., fix the root cause) and 2) this abortion issue does not seem to resonate appropriately among the believers

Will traditional marriage follow the path of preborn life — an issue moving from judicial activism and socially elite proclamations that a generational shift was «inevitable» and «the debate is over» to our day decades later where the youngsters are more right minded about abortion than their parents.

Tea Party supporters are «much more likely than registered voters as a whole to say that their religion is the most important factor in determining their opinions on... social issues» like abortion and same - sex marriage, according to the Pew analysis.

Abortion, however, reveals, maybe better than any other issue, the brazen disingenuousness of such small - government posturing, and the convenient faux libertarianism often espoused by leftist proponents of greater centralized bureaucracy.

But perhaps no issue better illustrates - and indeed magnifies - this conflict than abortion.

Huckabee's 2008 Iowa victory and Santorum's surge suggest that, in spite of the dominant stereotypes about evangelicals, they value religious authenticity more than rhetoric and care about more issues than gay - marriage and abortion.

And regarding health issues, less than 5 % of the abortions are due to medical neces.sities — and they were allowed before Roe v Wade.

The two groups were highly polarized on these two issues, differing almost as much as they did on the abortion items, with the NRLC being much more likely than the NARAL to take the «pro-life» position.

They are unhappy with developments in America, but rather than direct their anger against the corporate economic powers that are doing them dirt, they have instead been diverted to conservative cultural issues» race, crime, moral decay, homosexuality, guns, abortion, feminism, anti-Americanism, and on into infinity» that are largely irrelevant to their lives.

This is much more important than minor issues like adjusting immigration, gay marriage which does not hurt anyone, and abortion which is an individual decision.

Leading up to the issues of birth control and abortion he declares that marriage is a natural right of man rather than a religious or civil institution.

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.

Today, thirty years after Roe and Doe, polls tell us that the abortion issue is still more important to women than to men.

The truth is that many Supreme Court justices appointed by pro-life presidents have voted to uphold abortion rights, so the issue is far more complex than we are often willing to admit.

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.

«We found actually that among the Tea Party, rather than being libertarians, at least on the issues of abortion and same - sex marriage, they're actually social conservatives,» the survey's lead author, Robert Jones, said Tuesday.

Abortion rates have fallen 12 percent since 2010 according to a recent survey, and 49 percent of Americans think abortion is morally wrong, much higher than on other life -Abortion rates have fallen 12 percent since 2010 according to a recent survey, and 49 percent of Americans think abortion is morally wrong, much higher than on other life -abortion is morally wrong, much higher than on other life - issues.

I used to think that abortion was chiefly an issue dividing Catholics and Protestants, but this is not the case — though the top Catholic authorities are today more adamant on the subject than are the leaders of other denominations.

Perry's ties to Texas» black and Hispanic communities are largely built around faith - related issues such as abortion and gay marriage, on which polls show minorities tend to be more conservative than whites.

White Evangelicals are more conservative on abortion, homosexuality, and other so - called «family issues» than are most Americans.

There are two people to consider, which makes the abortion issue a bit more complicated than determining whether or not a fetus is alive.

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.

He did not say drop the issues, he said there are more things to discuss than gays, abortion rights and contraception.

Whether the issue is size of government, or taxes, or abortion, a larger fraction of nonwhite voters are (moderately) on the conservative side of the issue than voted for Romney.

Even though women as far back as 1500BCE had access to all sorts of pregnancy tests, abortion information and contraception, this generation has seen more movement in the area of childbirth related issues than any other before it.

Scharff also noted that there are a plethora of issues that matter to women other than abortion rights, which has been the main focus of Cuomo's WEP push.

Likely voters side with Obama over Romney on key issues, including keeping so - called Obamacare in tact, eliminating tax cuts for those earning more than $ 250,000, Medicare, and protecting abortion rights and women's access to contraception.

But rather than pointing to state issues — like abortion rights or campaign finance — that Democrats typically highlight when arguing why Republican control of the chamber is bad, the governor kept his focus on the GOP in Washington.

But the issue also polls well in New York State, and it's an easy way to wedge Republicans who are less - than - eager to cast a vote — any vote at all — on a controversial issue like abortion.

The Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of the conservative advocacy group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, is among more than two dozen signatories of an open letter to Trump that presents pointed questions about the current Republican front - runner's commitment to culture - war issues including abortion, same - sex marriage and gambling.

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.»

Lastly, abortion is a much stickier issue in the United States than it is in the rest of the world.

Although his offensive (more in terms of what he says than that he says it) advocacy of McCain certainly will cause Democratic senators to gag, he is a much more natural fit for the Democratic caucus and his vote on most issues (e.g., labor, health care, abortion) is much more closely aligned with the Democratic party than with the Republicans.

Rather than talk about his coming fiscal plans — including how he'll push to use a projected $ 6.2 billion surplus — the governor's campaign has leaned on social wedge issues, including abortion.

The panel sent out more than 30 information requests to universities, companies, and abortion clinics before issuing three formal subpoenas in February to the abortion provider Southwestern Women's Options (SWO), the tissue procurement company StemExpress, and UNM, whose health sciences center includes labs that work with fetal tissue from abortions performed by SWO.

So Florence at one point has an abortion as, amazingly, kind of a side issue, and an early fumbled sex scene has her apologize for her «ugly bra» — such details make her a person more than an object, and Gerwig just inhabits them.

That makes education different than issues like guns, abortion or even taxes — where a single issue can drive votes.

Hannah initially associates it with the choice of abortion when she meets Simone but as others have said it takes on much more than that single issue.

A pro-life reporter might cover the abortion issue differently than a pro-choice reporter.

If the context behind the arguments is not included, the public just sees dispute, and can simply lump a science fight with those over abortion, gun rights, energy policy and other issues framed by ideology or values as much as (or more than) data.

In Florida alone, lawmakers have already filed more than 20 bills seeking to preempt local authority on issues including oil and gas regulations, construction standards for abortion clinics and whether a town can declare itself a sanctuary city.

«He is much more an Anti-federalist where state and national authority clash, more libertarian on issues such as gun control, and much tighter on some matters as the rights of the criminally accused than I... «We, however, agree on other important issues, such as finding no constitutional barrier to bans on late term abortions and requiring spousal and parental notification of impending abortions.»

Hundreds of people came to Nova Southeastern University Tuesday to support abortion rights, denounce or defend greyhound racing and offer views on more than a dozen other issues, as the Florida Constitution Revision Commission held the first of several meetings to hear from the public.