Sentences with phrase «matters as abortion»

A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope who would change the «policy» of the Church over such matters as abortion, gay marriage and women priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century by resigning.

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«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.

It's time we, as a nation, stop looking at abortion as merely a political issue and see it for what it is - a matter of life and death.

Governmental indifference to contraception was soon construed to imply governmental indifference to abortion, via the misconstrual of abortion as a matter of sexual privacy rather than as a matter of public justice; and the «right to abortion» soon became a defining issue in our politics.

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.

Their discomfort with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).

Another example is that of citizens of states which pay for abortions with public funds who refuse, as a matter of conscience, to remit to state government a portion of their taxes corresponding to the percentage of the state budget that goes to abortion funding.

It prescinds, however, from the substance of the moral questions involved» the rightness or wrongness of slavery or legalized abortion and euthanasia as a matter of public policy.

Women have abortions for numerous reasons but I guess saving their life doesn't matter to you as long as you continue to step on their rights to do as they wish with their own body.

I would suggest that it's due to an awakening to the real pain that promiscuity and abortion entail; others might say that it's actually based in «rights talk,» that young people identify with aborted children (as of this January 22, anyone under the age of thirty could have been aborted) and see abortion as an attack on their siblings and classmates, rather than a matter of women's self «determination.

As The Nation pointed out after the election, «One out of every four Trump voters voted with the Supreme Court in mind, and it's a safe bet that a very substantial number of those see the Supreme Court through the lens of abortion politics... If you can rally voters around abortion, few other issues matter.»

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

«Just as Catholics for a Free Choice and other such groups suggest to the general public that not all Catholics agree with positions adopted by their bishops on birth control, abortion and in - vitro fertilization, so will the Religious Right serve to suggest that not all Catholics accept the positions of church leaders in social justice matters,» writes Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.

While this also does not engage abortion by name, it does so obliquely: It frames the clarification so that abortion qua abortion is not the matter at hand, but rather abortion - as - discrimination can be.

Yet, in White's hands, that inescapable truth — what should have stood as the predicate for any serious discussion of abortion — was treated as a matter hardly worthy even of notice.

These judges had a demoralizing effect on conservatives when they defected on the matter of abortion, and Kennedy even more so as he advanced the case for gay rights along a path that surely led to same - sex marriage — as Justice Scalia clearly saw and sharply warned.

As a matter of living responsibly, a good case might be made for the bare assertion «no abortion or birth control and damn the consequences.»

School prayer and abortion — the items highlighted in the survey — are comfortably within the realm of family values, but they are something else, too: questions closely allied to the First and Fourteenth Amendments, to civil rights as much as to family values, and, above all, to the nature of the relationship between the individual and the Creator who, as our Declaration states, endows each one of us with every right that matters.

R. R. Reno has used the term dhimmi to describe the social status who hold the traditional line on matters such as personhood, sexuality, and abortion.

He left his party when abortion was made a party policy rather than a matter of conscience and sits in the Lords as an Independent Crossbencher.

He became a firm opponent of abortion, which some might see as a matter of conscience, others hypocrisy.

So you see that in your question, you take it as a matter - of - fact that women have a right to abortion, which is common in many other countries.

That question is not simply a matter for intellectual debate, as is evident in the controversy surrounding an issue like abortion, which is fundamentally a debate about when a fetus becomes a conscious person.

As distracted as the abortion debate may be by a predominantly male state legislature, «Trapped» repositions the gaze to what matters mosAs distracted as the abortion debate may be by a predominantly male state legislature, «Trapped» repositions the gaze to what matters mosas the abortion debate may be by a predominantly male state legislature, «Trapped» repositions the gaze to what matters most.

The total impact isn't always as strong as it could be given the subject matter of abortion and incest, but it's still compelling stuff nonetheless.

NPR has always struck me as fairly balanced in that they always give both sides of the story, no matter how nutty or fucking ridiculous the other side is (like those who still believe abortions cause cancer, climate change isn't real because there's still ice in the oceans, etc).

And senators have demonstrated a reluctance to be satisfied with nominees» attempts to differentiate their personal views on a matter, like abortion or gay rights, with their acceptance of the court's decisions in these areas as a matter of law.

Moreover, based on this evidence, Congress concluded that partial - birth / late - term abortions are never medically necessary as a matter of law.

«He is much more an Anti-federalist where state and national authority clash, more libertarian on issues such as gun control, and much tighter on some matters as the rights of the criminally accused than I... «We, however, agree on other important issues, such as finding no constitutional barrier to bans on late term abortions and requiring spousal and parental notification of impending abortions.»

This has become a more salient issue over time as organizations are now more likely to be involved in «political disputes over funding, the role of labour unions, abortion and other matters».

While abortion rights were framed as a matter of freedom of reproductive choice in Roe v. Wade (1973), pro-choice advocates also argue that legal abortion is necessary for women to have the same options as men.