Sentences with phrase «law as abortion»

But the pope did not declare Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union illegitimate, despite the genocide and mass murders, which were surely as much violations of the moral law as abortion.

Not exact matches

As for this issue, it is not just about contraception, it includes abortion which is a direct violation of our Declaration of Independence, but more important, a direct violation of Gods Law.

«The Court is not persuaded by the Government's argument that there can not or should not be any defense of justification or necessity merely because the conduct at issue, i.e., abortion, is legal as a matter of positive law.

The minute to bring religion in as your justification for abortion laws (or any laws honestly) the whole argument becomes invalid and should be tossed out due to a seperation of church and state.

Regarding Amy Wax's discussion of abortion and child support: As long as the law guarantees to a woman the absolute, unqualified and unconditional right, regardless of age or status, to give birth anonymously (as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),..As long as the law guarantees to a woman the absolute, unqualified and unconditional right, regardless of age or status, to give birth anonymously (as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),..as the law guarantees to a woman the absolute, unqualified and unconditional right, regardless of age or status, to give birth anonymously (as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),..as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),....

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.»

Believers could substantially reduce the number of abortions without a single change to any laws just by behaving as they would like everyone else to!

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).

As I was preparing for class, I learned that Mississippi's voters had rejected the so - called «Personhood Amendment,» which would have outlawed abortion in the state by affirming as a matter of law that human life begins at conceptioAs I was preparing for class, I learned that Mississippi's voters had rejected the so - called «Personhood Amendment,» which would have outlawed abortion in the state by affirming as a matter of law that human life begins at conceptioas a matter of law that human life begins at conception.

Christian politicians justified their support for this law with the fallacy that the new law would end illegal abortions and prevent full legalisation as in the United States.

Further, Gov. Cuomo, along with many others today, do not simply «deal with the law as it is» but energetically work to keep the law as it is with respect to the unlimited abortion license.

As he makes clear, for the most part those dealings were ham «fisted, especially when it came to Washington's efforts to establish abortion as a «human right» in international laAs he makes clear, for the most part those dealings were ham «fisted, especially when it came to Washington's efforts to establish abortion as a «human right» in international laas a «human right» in international law.

Yet, of course, Neuhaus did not allow that grace to Mario Cuomo or others who say they are «personally opposed» to abortion but have to deal with the law as it is.

Arkes remains a convinced incrementalist in abortion politics: he recounts the battle over partial - birth abortion (still ongoing) as a «modest first step» away from the jurisprudence of Roe; in a similar vein he has hopes that the Born - Alive Act (now signed into law) might help to revive reasoned public discourse about the true character of abortion.

Embracing an apparent relativism and anti-intellectualism, Prof. Smolin writes: «Even if we immediately restored the preeminence of natural rights / natural law discourse to our national jurisprudence and politics, abortion rights activists would still find ways of justifying the abortion right in that mode of discourse, just as prior generations justified the enslavement of African Americans through invoking God, the nature of things, and the Bible.»

As for the law, I think opposing abortion on principles (religious or other) but as long as no church is forced by the state to preform a ceremonAs for the law, I think opposing abortion on principles (religious or other) but as long as no church is forced by the state to preform a ceremonas long as no church is forced by the state to preform a ceremonas no church is forced by the state to preform a ceremony.

On Friday, LifeSiteNews.com made note of the fact that this regional bullfight ban was passed into law just as Spain's new, more liberal abortion law is coming into effect, and that «the irony has not been lost on pro-life observers.»

Spain's new abortion law, as LifeSiteNews reported in an earlier dispatch, «abolishes penalties for all abortions during the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy» and «allows minors to obtain abortions without parental permission, although they must first inform their parents of their intention to do so.»

The Hawaiian court has thus set itself on the same course of action as the misguided Supreme Court in 1973 when it thought that laws about abortion were merely an assertion of the rights of a living mother and an unborn fetus.

«In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia,» the Pope says, «it is... never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.»

On his trip to Brazil, Pope Benedict said, as he has said before and as canon law specifies, that politicians who reject the Church's teaching and support abortion gravely impair their communion with the Church and should refrain from receiving the Eucharist.

In a report released this year, the Associated Press found that states with the largest decreases in abortions had the fewest restrictive laws on the books — proving that the logic is as blank as the photo Alice preferred.

Just as believers can, all by themselves with no changes to any existing laws, reduce abortions by about 70 %, they can also improve their image if their members would simply comply with their cult's beliefs.

Catholic schools, for example, used to think of academic freedom as in the service of the truth we find in natural law, the truth about abortion, the relational person, and so forth.

(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.»

In earlier statements, the ACOG defended the individual judgment of the physician in determining what is medically indicated as a buttress against laws criminalizing partial - birth abortion.

However, abortion laws in some states may now be as restricted as possible.

That one action by Senator Kennedy paved the way for a judicial appointment that almost surely was the key to preserving a constitutional right to abortion on demand and to the overturning of U.S. laws protecting marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

As I said in my own piece, people of my persuasion would do handstands if we could enact Wilson's policy today and have the law restrict abortions beyond eight to ten weeks.

On the other hand, the polls show that most people still think abortion is wrong, and, as Lincoln said of slavery, «Like every other wrong which some men will commit if left alone, it ought to be prohibited by law.»

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

One possible step forward is that abortion providers — as long as they are legally allowed in this country — should have to be independent corporations that only perform abortions and receive no federal funding, with regular inspections and investigations both financial and health - related, and the passing of new laws which more strictly regulate their practice.

He said: «We're going to need to change by virtue a humanised political debate over exactly what we want to see in our country, that means changing the law, it is also changing the culture so people view abortion as what it is, destruction of an unborn child.»

Just as abortion, gay rights, and baseball doping will have no effect on the economy, illegal invaders, the wars we are locked in, or the housing market, neither will the candidate's religious beliefs (counting any religion that advocates the murder of others, the subjugating of women, and the establishment of it's own set of laws — though I have no idea or what major religion would do so...).

The Court, as it had prior to Casey, refused to apply the usual principle that laws should be interpreted to avoid constitutional difficulties, thereby illustrating a unique hostility to laws regulating abortion.

Traditionally, states have been able to pass laws that prevent or limit access to abortions after the point of «viability,» currently thought to be as young as around 22 weeks.

We go to work, socialize, and share public space with many people who reject the moral law's authority over their lives, people who regard abortion as a fundamental right or who think sexual liberation an imperative.

I sure as heck do NOT want religious people to attack the laws allowing abortion to remain legal.

But English law doesn't exclude that as a reason for getting abortion, because the law only requires two doctors to certify that the woman will be harmed mentally or physically by having the child.

By targeting the exact problem, we reinforce the international law in our favor and highlight the lack of legal foundation for abortion as a human right.

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...

Planned Parenthood has also faced ongoing efforts by some states to limit the government funding the abortion provider receives through Title X and Medicaid, as well as state laws restricting abortion.

«Research has shown that life - affirming laws do have an impact on lowering the number of abortions, and with all the life - affirming laws passed since 2010, we have a reason to celebrate the number of lives saved and women protected as legislators worked to defend them from a predatory and rarely accountable abortion industry,» AUL Acting President Clark Forsythe said in a written statement.

In 2007 the Committee used the same justification to attack Honduras» restrictive abortion laws, recommending «that the State party consider reviewing the law relating to abortion with a view to identifying circumstances under which abortion could be permitted, such as therapeutic abortions and abortions in cases of pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, and removing punitive provisions imposed on women who undergo abortion, in line with the Committee's general recommendation 24...»

The new feminist view, as advanced by Drucilla Cornell in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, as well as by others, recognizes that justifying abortion under the right to privacy has become problematical.

Or a majority might even have been assembled to sustain the laws on abortion, as a majority on the Court had been assembled, just two years earlier, in U.S. v. Vuitch, to sustain a law on abortion in the District of Columbia.

After all, the Court could have come down, as the German Constitutional Court did in a 1975 decision interpreting Germany's Basic Law, in precisely the opposite way — invalidating a legislatively enacted liberalization of abortion.

They are so wedded to this connection that when President Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which denies American aid to any NGO that provides, counsels, or refers for abortion, or that promotes a change in a country's laws towards permitting access to abortion, not a single NGO (as far as I am aware) agreed to sever its contraception work from its abortion advocacy.

They want «In God We Trust» on our money (1954), they want evolution banned from schools while allowing a REVISED pledge of allegiance that originally did not include the phrase «under God», they want laws that reflect Christian morality (Abortion, same s3x marriage, etc.), and they treat as outcasts anyone who doesn't align with their particular religious view.

The Court's own case law shows that in order to maintain the abortion right at the level of fundamental law, many other sectors of the states» legal order, at both statutory and common law, need to be altered: family law, marriage law, laws regulating the medical profession, and, as we now see with the recent circuit court decisions, criminal laws prohibiting private use of lethal force.