Sentences with phrase «like abortion rights»

Cuomo also vowed to work for a slate of progressive issues like abortion rights, and raising the minimum wage.

Cuomo also has vowed to work for a slate of progressive issues like abortion rights, and raising the minimum wage.

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.

Cuomo, to chants of «four more years», promised to deliver in his next term on a mostly progressive agenda, including enacting a number of items that were stalled in the State Senate over the past couple of years, like an abortion rights provision as part of a women's rights agenda and public financing of political campaigns.

The IDC had previously called for votes on key liberal issues in the Senate through a «call the roll» campaign — indicating that even with a Democratic majority, the votes on concerns like abortion rights and campaign finance reform may not be there.

Cuomo reiterated his support of «progressive politics», stressing that his calls for fiscal conservatism don't mean he is no longer a liberal on social issues like abortion rights (which is shaping up to be a big focus of the Schneiderman - Donovan general election battle).

The video features each of the eight members of the IDC discussing policies such as their support for issues like abortion rights and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, or GENDA.

They pretend to be the voice for the religious right but then after they are elected issues like abortion rights get no action from them.

Not exact matches

«Brazil and other countries in Latin America are really good examples of what it looks like when you set up barriers to access for abortions,» said Mónica Arango, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights.

Asked about Democrats having enough leeway on polarizing issues like gun rights and opposition to abortion, House Democratic Caucus chair Joe Crowley said in a press conference on Wednesday that the party «always has been» a big tent.

With hot - button right - wing populist issues like abortion and capital punishment largely off the table in Canadian politics, the long - gun registry took on disproportionate importance for that portion of the Conservative base.

the person being voted for by these individuals probably does have the right scientific markings like, no God, abortion on demand no matter how late in term, good in business and stealing (er) expropriating for personal gain, cheating on your mate, etc, etc. 2nd.

Lumping all Christians into a Republican bucket and calling all Christians bigots isn't fair or right simply based on social issues like abortion or gay marriage.

It seems to me that the right - wing of this country is more focused on fire and brimstone issues that divide us like gay marriage and abortion just so they can avoid the fact that their primary reason for their economic platform is to feed people's greed.

The most important task is to «figure out» if abortion «feels like» the right decision.

As it is, Gosnell got away with it because candy - asses like you cry foul - that some woman's rights are being violated, if anyone would actually REGULATE abortion clinics and make them accountable.

Conservatives, angry that the key Supreme Court votes for abortion and gay rights came from Republican - appointed justices, have vowed to ensure that Bush's nominees will be solid conservatives like Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

If we actuall had a Congress who cared about the People they swore to serve and did not take vacations 1 week for every 2 they work (new Boehner rule when he became Speaker), actually did work and created bills that were other than ending abortion rights or killing Medicare, stopped opposing ending the fraud Bush wars that raise our debt by more than a trillion a month (and Republicans then blame Obama for the rising debt from their wars), and acted like humans we would already be well into recovery.

I would like to hear from both Perry and Bachmann about how they read this passage, and how it can simultaneously justify opposition to abortion rights and support for the death penalty.

It says in this morning's paper that Sen. Hillary Clinton has laid out a new approach, emphasising the importance of experience and «working within the system» but «without sacrificing important values like preserving Social Security and protecting abortion rights».

(Frankly, as a woman, and a feminist, I don't like people invoking my «rights» to unilaterally support abortion.)

While the official course books treat topics like abortion and euthanasia as controversial issues for which there is no definitive judgement of right or wrong, they all have a range of topics which are presented as moral absolutes.

Some Catholics, going beyond the bishops and the Pope, maintain that the death penalty, like abortion and euthanasia, is a violation of the right to life and an unauthorized usurpation by human beings of God's sole lordship over life and death.

We need to either, 1) deny believers the right to vote, or 2) round them up, put them to work on some shovel - ready projects, like filling pot holes, or tearing down churches so we have more room for ACORN centers, and free abortion clinics.

These agents include people like Larry Pratt, a far - right Washington lobbyist on guns and abortion whose less savory affiliations led to his resignation as national cochairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign.

I care about the life people like you are attempting to force in to this world, you care about what appeases your god - big difference when you really don't care or consider the child only what your imaginary friend god wants and yet your god cause abortions all the time... you care about a clump of cells, not the actual life of the child and that's much worse than me supporting the rights of a woman to have control over her body, especially if the clump of cells couldn't survive outside of the host.

Just because pro-choice advocates make these arguments does not mean that courts (the same courts that are ready to overrule Roe) are likely to discover abortion rights under a statute that does not even mention abortion and that was enacted with the support of pro-life groups like the National Association of Evangelicals and the Mormon Church.

Many businesses blow their horn in favor of gay and abortion rights like starbucks but nobody is critical of their so called political correct statements.

The statement, signed by major religious - right figures like James Dobson, was also signed by proponents of the Come Let Us Reason Together abortion - reduction strategy, including Wallis and Mercer University Christian ethics professor David Gushee.

But many evangelicals wound up feeling betrayed by Carter's liberalism, and Reagan's courtship of first - generation Christian right leaders, as well as his conservative rhetoric on issues like abortion, sent hordes of evangelicals to the GOP.

They do not want their money used for things they do not approve of like abortions or social programs, and they have every right to feel that way.

Rev Why do you think that so many Christians oppose things like gay marriage, or abortion rights then?

My view is that since I am one of we the people who make the government, then money used from the governmental till for abortion makes us all murderers and no one should have the right to make me a murderer, just like I do not have the rght to stop somene from murdering their offspring.

For all that, I'm surprised at how many (not all of course) young people I've met who have strong center - right instincts on issues like abortion, taxes, and entitlement reform.

Even in marriage, a woman «has a right to do what she likes with her body» and obtain an abortion, however much her husband disagrees.

Raised Right: How I Untangled My Faith From Politics by Alisa Harris — If, like me, you knew what abortion was before you knew where babies came from, you'll love this funny and insightful book about finding faith outside of politics.

Isn't it interesting how angry the militant Christian crowd becomes when a ruling goes against their «beliefs» like for gay rights and abortion???

The right likes to force their beliefs on others, including PRETENDING that the Bible ever mentions the word «abortion».

«Religion misused for violence and power are also violations of the same laws that guide any other activity» Misuing power... Like restricting a woman's right to an abortion?

The hardening of the abortion right, like the hardening of the hearts of the Justices, was visibly on display in Stenberg.

But we'll see more of the same in the future — pressure in favor of things like gay rights, contraception and abortion services, and against public religious witness.

A problem that has vexed Catholics and others in the pro-life movement, however, is the question whether it is legitimate to support a less than perfectly protective legislative proposal restricting abortion, euthanasia, and like injustices, when the only politically realistic alternative at the moment is a proposal that is even less protective of the rights of the unborn, elderly, or handicapped.

In particular it notes General Recommendation No. 24 which «established that the criminalization of medical practices which only apply to women, like abortion, constitute a violation of equal rights,» (6.5.2) and the Committee's 1999 comments to Colombia calling their abortion laws a violation of Article 12.

Yet I don't hear too many decrying this sin like abortion or gay rights.

The danger behind CEDAW is that terms like «sexual and reproductive health services,» while not really implying any «right» to abortion, wind up doing just that when understood in the bizarro - world of the Committee.

Ms. Goodman, like so many others, simply wants to prejudge the outcome of that debate with a diktat in favor of «abortion rights.»

Present «women's issues» like the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion to the congregation for such individual and corporate action as money raising and letter writing.

He discerns a Lady Macbeth - like «moral desperation» and psychological denial in her pushing of the «abortion rights» agenda so strongly as to be blatantly self - contradictory by then denying any rights to the unborn.

Updated: One observer questions how a Senate Democratic majority can be a «firewall» against Trump's policies, noting lawmakers like Felder and Sen. Ruben Diaz hold conservative views on abortion rights.

The Democrats immediately swung into action after Wendy Long's big win Tuesday night, sending out a flurry of press releases deeming her positions on hot - button social issues like same - sex marriage, abortion rights and guns too extreme for Democrat - dominated New York.