Sentences with phrase «life of the mother»

I don't think all hospital births are bad things, and there are hospital births that are certainly saving lives of mothers and infants.

Wearing appropriate clothing is not like changing the legislation, but I truly believe it can make a difference in the daily life of a mother.

The Effects of Spousal Support on the Parenting Stress and Quality of Life of Mothers with Preschool Children

Suffice it to say that I believe the morality of a given abortion decision is subject to the competing interests present in that particular situation (e.g. life of the mother, incest, ra - pe, severe defects, severe economic hardship to already existing siblings, etc, v. abortion as birth control, pure personal convenience, etc).

I don't believe the government has the right to end lives any more than a murderer does, though, of course, I find exceptions in each of these (life of mother for abortion, a police officer defending herself, etc.).

And lets look at another fact... If these people call themselves pro-life, what about lives of the mothers?

What should be the heart of the movie (the interior lives of the mother and daughter at the tale's center) is instead a dud; the female characters are barely drawn at all.

The main character is Libby, but you also get an inside window into the desperate lives of her mother and her brother Ben.

She also had to get to school on her own accord and seemed to recognize that education might be a possible path out of the horrible life of her mother and the drug - dealing «friends.»

Activist and award - winning author Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz, joins with novelist Renée Watson to give middle grade readers a glimpse into the early life of her mother.

As I noted before, the morality of a decision to terminate a pregnancy, IMHO, turns on a host of legitimate competing interests (e.g. life of the mother, ra - pe, incest, deprivations to already existing siblings v. abortion as birth control, pure convenience, etc).

And contrary to the platform plank, which was opposed to all abortions, George was against abortions with the exception of rape, incest and where the life of the mother was threatened.»

«The only exception I have to have an abortion is in that case of the life of the mother.

In Brazil, the country with more Catholics than any other in the world, status quo has largely gone unchallenged until recently: Abortion is illegal in this country, except in cases where the life of the mother is in danger.

Certainly in those cases the life of the mother should take precedence.

Since 2007 34 state had bans on late term abortions and all the others had some form of restrictions, all making late term abortions only possible for viability of the fetus and life of the mother.

By respecting equally the life of the unborn child and the life of the mother, by supporting notification and consent before an abortion involving a minor, by offering ministries to reduce unintended pregnancy, by affirming (and encouraging church support of) crisis pregnancy centers, and by urging family counsel in decision - making about abortion, the additional language is decisively pro-life.

In 1992 the members of Valley Hospital Association (VHA), a private secular organization made up of residents of Mat - su Borough, adopted a policy prohibiting abortions in its hospital except in cases of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or where the life of the mother is threatened, or because «the fetus has a condition that is incompatible with life.»

It is many of the Protestant churches who condemn abortion even when the life of the mother is at stake, while many Catholic bishops will condone abortion in that instance.

Illegal abortions are taking place all the time while putting the life of the mother at very high risk.

He concludes his discussion of the abortion issue with this perplexing proposal: if the pro-life forces had accepted a compromise position allowing for abortion in the case of a defective baby (this from a preeminent pediatric surgeon), rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother, he is certain that abortion advocates would have jumped to agree and the million or so annual toll of aborted babies would have been avoided.

Moral theologians generally sanctioned this approach since, although it did effect abortion, the primary intention of the surgery was to preserve the life of the mother and the abortion was a regrettable side effect.

The procedure you describe is rarely performed, and only in extreme cases when the life of the mother is at risk.

Oh, and by the way, poor women who still wish to terminate their unwanted pregnancies in a post Roe v. Wade world will wind up trying to end them in dangerous back alley clinics or by trying unconventional means by themselves, jeopardizing both the life of the mother as well as the fetus.

As a result, states were permitted to outlaw abortion in the third trimester of pregnancy except when the procedure is necessary to preserve the life of the mother.»

The tyranny of the PRO-LIFE argument is so retarded because it demands that NO ONE should be able to have an abortion, even if the fetus is (1) the result of a vicious r - ape, (2) the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother, among other examples that prove that abortion is not always an «act of convenience.»

Mark, you can not impose an absolute ban on abortion because then you deny the (presumed) minority of their chance to abort due to r - ape, threats to the life of the mother, etc..

If the baby is a threat to the life of the mother, and the mother had an abortion, wouldnt that just be self defense?

If pregnancy becomes a physical threat to the life of the mother, then abortion is not performed with the intent of killing the child.

How can we have a president who thinks birth control is satanic or rejects the use of science to detect early fetal issues to save the life of the mother and / or potentially prevent a baby born in a vegetative state?

We know that there can be serious complications during pregnancy that can threaten the life of the mother or the child, or both.

It might perhaps be just possible to outdo the ingenuity of the theologians and show how the life of Mother Teresa, say, which has every appearance of being motivated by an astonishing compassion rooted in religious conviction, has actually been driven by a subtle but irresistible Glückseligkeitstrieb.

Only in the case of danger to the life of the mother, and only after extensive investigation by competent Jewish authorities, would Orthodox Judaism ever permit abortion.

And thus, analogously, the laws that protected the unborn prior to Roe and Doe always contained a «life of the mother» exception.

In praying for the spiritual rebirth of our nation, we can also draw strength from the life of Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton.

No univeral health coverage for abortions unless the life of the mother is at significant risk and judged to be so by at least two doctors.

In a statement, the pro-life Mary Fallin said: «The bill is so ambiguous and so vague that doctors can not be certain what medical circumstances would be considered «necessary to preserve the life of the mother».»

The illegality of abortion has been codified in some form since 1861, and in 1983 the Constitution of Ireland was explicitly amended by the public to guarantee the equal right to life of the mother and the unborn child.

Under his preferred settlement, national public policy would allow abortion only in cases of imminent danger to the life of the mother, conception by rape or incest, and a few other extraordinary instances.

«We affirm that there are no medical circumstances justifying direct abortion, that is, no circumstances in which the life of a mother may only be saved by directly terminating the life of her unborn child.»

It is for this reason that SPUC has launched The Mayisha Campaign (Mayisha meaning Life in Swahili) to raise awareness about maternal mortality, dispel the myths put about by abortion groups and lobby the Department for International Development to adopt an ethical foreign policy which respects the lives of both mothers and their babies.

(only in cases where the life of the mother is in jeopardy is there moral justification)

They are not now convincing the huge majority that to take the life of an embryo in order to save the life of a mother is simple «murder,» as the bumper - stickers (but not most people in the reasoned, religious, Christian and even Catholic traditions before 1973) would have it.