Sentences with phrase «liberalize abortion laws»

Thomas Jacobson of Focus on the Family has counted 58 countries that were pressured to liberalize their abortion laws between 1997 and 2007.

International organizations like UNFPA are engaging in a full - court press to increase contraceptive prevalence in Africa (now the world's lowest at 27 percent) and to liberalize abortion laws by several means, including a controversial continent - wide framework called the Maputo Plan of Action.

Did they see similar declines when they liberalized their abortion laws?

• Protestants, including those now so intensely engaged in the pro-life movement, were slow to recognize the great evil of what thirty years ago was called «liberalized abortion law.»

Several years ago, NYS Assemblyman George Michaels, a Democrat, cast the deciding vote in favor of liberalizing the abortion laws as they were at that time.

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Let there be no mistake about the impact of the Roe and Doe decisions: they did not «liberalize» abortion law; they abolished abortion law in all fifty states.

Even though the 1979 treaty never mentions abortion, and many states party to the convention have strong pro-life laws, CEDAW's committee has pressured more than forty nations in the last five years to liberalize their laws.

The most well known of these incidents is Colombia, whose Constitutional Court in 2006 liberalized its restrictive abortion laws.

Thatcher had voted — «without compunction,» as Nicholas Wapshott puts it in Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher — for the 1967 act liberalizing England's abortion law and does not seem to have made not the slightest gesture in defense of the unborn thereafter.