Sentences with phrase «known as abortion»

Medication abortion, also known as the abortion pill, is offered up to 70 days (10 weeks) from the first day of your last period.

PPIL provides in - clinic abortion services up to 19 weeks and 6 days gestation and offers medication abortion, also known as the abortion pill, up to 10 weeks gestation.

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.

Not exact matches

On February 26 of this year, for instance, eight members of the Court ruled that the federal racketeering statute (popularly known as RICO) did not apply to the efforts of the Pro-Life Action Network to shut down various abortion clinics.

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As I left the party, I saw at last that abortion was no longer an abstract debate played out primarily in the national media and on billboards.

While Harris is no doubt correct to criticize a loveless, sign - carrying conservative who hails women emerging from abortion clinics as murderers, supporting a woman through an abortion without speaking the truth would be equally heartless.

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.»

But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti's future, and as long as I know that women are being abused and raped, as long as I know that girls are being denied life itself through selective abortion, abandonment, and abuse, as long as brave little girls in Afghanistan are being attacked with acid for the crime of going to school, and until being a Christian is synonymous with doing something about these things, you can also call me a feminist.

So, with those considerations in mind, I think it's safer to say that while legal restrictions on abortion might put a dent in the abortion rate, they won't put an end to abortion as we know it, and, most importantly, they won't do a thing to alter the number of unwanted pregnancies.

I don't think you can be a pro-life feminist and argue that women need to be condescended to and «informed of what they're doing» as though they don't already know (cf. laws that institute mandatory waiting periods so they can «think it over,» which puts an untenable burden on those who have to travel for abortion procedures and do not have the money to do so).

The response of the last government was essentially more of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.

Since morality, or beliefs, religious or otherwise, strike me as the key driving force (after all, I'm even posting this comment in CNN's «Belief Blog») in an anti-choice individuals logical reasoning for thinking the way they do, I would like to know exactly how making abortion illegal will help you sleep at night, or register as a moral victory.

The fact the so called «Liberals» oppose factual information (such as sonograms) being provided to women considering abortion proves that they know full well that they are engaged in murder.

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

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.

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.

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

You will no doubt use «thou shalt not kill» as justification for being against abortion.

In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.

Sure they do, same as anyone has a right to say abortion is wrong (or right, seriously... whatever) And for all the Christians out there, I know it sucks but guess what, freedom of speech applies to atheists too.

Technological possibility will increasingly eclipse the very terms of our debate over abortion, and I suspect that «abortion politics» as we know it is on its way to being a relic of the past — a particularly brutal way we eliminated human life back when humans used to have children.

Cause that decision is made all the time and it's no where as big as abortion.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

The subsequent lawsuit, known as Roe v Wade, led to the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling that established abortion rights, though by that time Ms McCorvey had given birth and given her daughter up for adoption.

And it was Doe's broad definition of «health» as «well - being» that the Court would later use to strike down even bans on the cruel procedure known as partial - birth abortion.

Surprisingly these so called progressive christians are strangely silent on abortion (Otherwhise known as killing babies) what would Jesus say about abortion?

Even many of those who favor lower taxes (or at least oppose higher taxes) and abortion restrictions don't know the Republican Party as anything other than a vehicle for upper - class interest group politics and white identity politics.

And just so you know I 100 % believe adoption is a phenomenal choice, but we aren't just talking about abortions performed as a terrible form of after the fact birth control... We are talking about the abortions performed due to health risks that could cause a severely low quality of life as well.

Because of Abortion and Gay marriage we may elect a President who is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints members of which are commonly known as Mormons or LDS (Latter - day Saint).

Much as most English Catholics love Her Majesty the Queen, many of us felt just a little uneasywhen it became known that she referred to the late Cardinal Hume as «my Cardinal», and not entirely enthused by television images of Her Majesty attending Vespers at Westminster Cathedral, for all the world as if it was Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey: not because such ecumenical gestures are in themselves a bad thing, but because this one seemed all too likely to be have been a reward to the English Church for no longer making so much of a nuisance of itself, as it could have done, for instance, by criticising the supposedly Catholic - minded Tony Blair for his wholehearted support for abortion (including abortion up to term)- a stance which, north of the border, had led the late Cardinal Winning to utter a series of blistering denunciations of the Prime Minister even during NewLabour's honeymoon years.

From the limitation of offering assisted suicide to terminally - ill patients whose prognosis is only six months of life, to the so - called «safeguard» of having two doctors check the patient has a «clear, settled, and voluntary» wish to die (and, er, as we all know, a two doctor requirement was such a powerful safeguard in the Abortion Act!)

The courageous work of pro-life groups in vigils at abortion clinics, of street pastors working with clubbers at night - time in city centres, of those offering prayer ministry for healing in shopping centres, of street evangelisers such as the St Patrick's group in Soho - all these examples need to be better known, and imitated.1 Then there's the output of media groups working through radio, TV, internet sites, blogs and video teaching programmes, such as Catholic Evangelisation Services; these too, while offering an independent type of Christian teaching, provide an important stimulus to on - the - ground evangelising.

Think of the Obama voters you know who don't want their taxes raised, don't think government works very well, and oppose late - term abortion, but who are going to vote for Hillary Clinton because they think of conservative politics as a battle between the grasping rich and the violently racist.

That is why, perhaps, it is impossible for Garrow to imagine a principled opposition to the reformers whose lives he chronicles, who proceed as if an abortion were no more morally problematic than an appendectomy.

But in my being a humble humanitarian, I can not make a stand upon the willfulness of people wanting an abortion no matter what one insinuates as a cause to abort THEIR CHILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If the insurance companies have to provide this «free» service which everyone knows will not be free, then for my part I want abortion ended as soon as this is passed.

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.

Update (July 22): The Associated Press reports that a federal district court has struck down North Dakota's new abortion law, which would have banned the procedure «as early as six weeks into pregnancy and before some women know they are...

Men don't know what it means to be raped and to face the prospect of pregnancy as a result, a situation in which the morning after pill can prevent a pregnancy without causing an abortion.

Because abortion had become legal and easily available, that argument ran — as you well know — Infanticide would eventually become openly permissible, to be followed by euthanasia for infirm, expensive senior citizens.

As Catholics, we know instinctively that maternal mortality is a tragedy and that abortion is not the answer, but I believe that we are under an obligation to turn that knowledge into action and offer hope to mothers around the world who face the prospect of giving birth in fear and trembling rather than with joy.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

First, this category usually includes deaths as a result of spontaneous abortion, otherwise known as miscarriage, giving a distorted picture of the number of women who are dying as a result of induced abortion.

Every abortion practitioner knows that the overwhelming majority of abortions are carried out on social grounds andthe abortion lobby is unapologetic about its belief that abortion should be available «on demand and without apology», yet it uses rape survivors as an emotive smokescreen to cover its unsavoury agendas and exploits their suffering for political and ideological gain.

Acting the day after the 44th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's legalization of abortion, Trump signed an order restoring what is known as the Mexico City Policy, which President Barack Obama had rescinded three days after he was inaugurated in 2009.

She can no longer trust what some of us might think of as her better side, explaining that if she had another child she would feel even worse because she would be admitting that the decision to have the abortion was a dreadful mistake, admitting that she and her husband «could in fact have managed to care for another life.»

How do we know that making abortion legal will not diminish our respect for other forms of sometimes unwanted life, such as the mentally and physically disabled or the infirm old, or for life in general?

You do realize, skippy, that MOST pregnancies - as in the numeric majority of them — end in what you would call «abortion,» otherwise known as spontaneous abortion, or miscarriage.

Pittman has been known to take strong positions on social and political issues such as abortion and immigration, sending charged email messages to select staffers and friends that leave little doubt where he stands.