Sentences with phrase «of abortifacients»

She was the only one of many naturalists and anthropologists active among the indigenous peoples in Africa and the Americas who mentioned extensive use of abortifacients for «menstrual regulation» (population control)....

The Catholic bishops of the United States have vowed to continue to resist the HHS Mandate, which forces Catholics and others to violate their consciences regarding grave issues of the human person and human life by requiring coverage of abortifacients, sterilization, and contraceptives.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, passed in response to the Supreme Court's ruling — the law that protected Hobby Lobby from forced coverage of abortifacient contraceptives — is now opposed energetically by previously strong progressive supporters like the ACLU.

Tooley's memory is awfully short if he has already forgotten the recent legal challenges to the HHS mandate requiring employer coverage of abortifacient contraceptives.

Not exact matches

But Podesta and his candidate want to force a religious order of Catholic women to cooperate in the provision of contraceptives and abortifacients; they want to compel small businesses to cater to same - sex marriage ceremonies; and they want physicians to refer troubled patients for «transgender» treatment — all against the Catholic understanding of the right to act on one's conscience (in these cases, one's rightly formed conscience).

In place of traditional American liberty based on the principles of limited government, Obamacarians are erecting a bureaucratic state, complete with centralized control, cronyism, ideological impositions, benefits to favored constituencies, ever increasing dependencies, spiced with an anti religion agenda that would force religious non profits and charities to choose between their service missions and following the precepts of their faith (through the Free Birth Control / Sterilization / Abortifacient Rule for now, more later).

John Jenkins of Notre Dame and John Garvey of Catholic University, for a missed opportunity to speak the whole truth to power about the proposed new HHS mandate that would force all health insurers to cover abortifacient drugs under the rubric of «contraceptives» in «preventive» health coverage for women.

Charles Krauthammer called it an «accounting gimmick,» as did Paul Rahe of Hillsdale College, writing for National Review Online, where he said Obama's compromise was a «farce,» a «snare and a delusion» designed to permit «bishops, priests, and nuns to save face while, in fact, paying for the contraception and abortifacients that the insurance companies will be required to provide.»

But what makes the Obama mandate for the coverage of contraception by Catholic employers different» in both its original form and in the so - called «accommodation»» is the directness of the Church's financing of contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization.

Writing in the Winter 2007 issue, Rev. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P., professor of biology at Providence College, and an expert pro-life Catholic bioethicist, concludes his article,» Is Plan B an Abortifacient?

Augros, a professor of philosophy at the Center for Higher Studies in Thornwood, New York, pointed to scientific studies that suggested the active drug in Plan B — levonorgestrel — could function not only as a contraceptive, but as an abortifacient.

Abortifacients are not health care either, much on the contrary, they are Death Care, they simply cause the death of an unborn child and again, cause serious side effects to the woman's health.

The enormous toxicity of these drugs to the pregnant woman, however, and the fact that they produced massive congenital deformities in the fetuses who somehow survived the pharmacological assault, virtually precluded their use as abortifacients.

We now have a situation where a Catholic hospital will be seen as condoning referrals for abortion and approving the full range of family planning services including abortifacients such as the morning - after pill.

The legal battle to ban abortion, however, is not by any means defeated with this report of a medical abortifacient, and it may in fact be helped.

«One particular religious freedom issue demands our immediate attention: the now - finalized rule of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that would force virtually all private health plans nationwide to provide coverage of sterilization and contraception - including abortifacient drugs - subject to an exemption for «religious employers» that is arbitrarily narrow, and to an unspecified and dubious future «accommodation» for other religious organizations that are denied the exemption,» the statement read.

Depending on how the justices rule, certain institutions may find themselves exempt from the controversial HHS mandate that requires them to arrange for the provision of contraception, sterilization, and certain abortifacient drugs.

«The first iteration of the mandate in 2011 created an onerous burden for institutions that conscientiously object to providing contraceptives and / or abortifacients for religious reasons, as it contained only a very narrow exemption that applied to a small number of churches,» stated the council.

Moreover, many forms of contraception occasionally work as abortifacients, by preventing the implantation of the newly conceived human being in his or her mother's uterus.

Leaving aside the issue of whether or not EBC may act in an abortifacient way in some cases, every single such study has found that schemes promoting EBC simply do not reduce observed rates of unwanted pregnancies or abortions.

Dr. Etienne - Emile Beaulieu, the French scientist who developed the RU - 486 abortifacient pill, has declared, «My intent is to eliminate the word «abortion» because that word is as traumatic as the fact itself of abortion.»

It is able, contrary to the opinions of Sarah E. Hinlicky and R. Albert Mohler, Jr., to establish the immorality of contraception independent of whether the contraceptive method has abortifacient effects.

While the Obama administration finds its own signature health care legislation so complicated to administer that it is now putting off implementation of the large - employer insurance mandate until 2015 (i.e., after the congressional midterm elections), it is forging ahead with its oppressive HHS contraception - sterilization - abortifacient mandate, despite repeated condemnations of it from countless religious leaders for nearly two years now.

For over two years scores of litigants have been challenging the HHS mandate, which forces nearly all non-grandfathered employee health plans to change their terms, if they do not already cover sterilization, contraception, and abortifacient pharmaceuticals as «free preventive care» for female employees and dependents.

One of the few undisputed claims is that the drug is an abortifacient, not a contraceptive.

This is the abortifacient character of the pill.

Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the Affordable Care Act's «contraception mandate» — the requirement that employers provide employees health insurance that covers contraception and abortifacients — impermissibly infringes on the religious liberty of religiously motivated corporations.

In their filing attorney's wrote the mandate, «runs roughshod over Wheaton's religious beliefs, and the beliefs of millions of other Americans, by forcing it to provide health insurance coverage for abortifacient drugs and related education and counseling.»

«The killing of an unborn child through abortion via abortifacients or any other means is an intrinsic evil, a sin that goes against God's plan for our salvation.

And for an interesting look at the problem of categorizing the pill as an abortifacient, check out Libby Anne's piece on the topic, where she notes that «if your goal is to save «unborn babies,» and if you truly believe that a zygote — a fertilized egg — has the same value and worth as you or I — the only responsible thing to do is to put every sexually active woman on the pill,» because the pill actually reduces the number of zygotes naturally rejected by a woman's body.

And even better, they get to successfully object to the use of those contraception methods because of a lie that they are supposed to be abortifacients.

You get the Obama administration's contraceptive / abortifacient mandate on steroids and a full - scale legal assault by Clinton Administration 3.0 on the capacity of religious institutions to be themselves as they understand themselves to be: communities of religious conviction with a right to their own moral integrity, not mere instruments for delivering whatever the government deems to be a public service or a public good.

But those who claim some methods of contraception are abortifacients give it that classification becaue the ending of pregnacy occurs after fertilization.

In particular, he appealed on behalf of those whose religiously informed conscience will not allow them to provide — or to «designate» others to provide for them — sterilization, contraception, and abortifacients.

If the various polls and surveys on the subject are even partially correct, there are millions of men and women who would unhesitatingly describe themselves as pro — life who also regularly use the contraceptive pill, which is known to act, at least some of the time, as an abortifacient.

But this was just one of a spate of cases involving pharmacists who refused to dispense the legal drug because they view the Plan B pill as an abortifacient.

Historically, the plant has been used as an abortifacient in folklore medicine and is used as a component of fragrances.

This overwhelmingly «christian» congress represents an overwhelming «christian» nation has that: performs a million abortions a year, has out 40 % of births out of wedlock (approaching 70 percent in minority communities), has a Supreme Court that has ruled that virtual child pornography is protected by the first amendment, has a culture that teaches ever younger girls (through movies, music, tv, books and magazines) that their primary function is as living sex toys for men, forces religions to provide insurance to include abortifacients against their faith, and is rapidly redefining marriage by judicial edict.

«a very early use of the new word agnotology, if not its coining, in an article by Linda Schiebinger titled Agnotology and Exotic Abortifacients: The Cultural Production of Ignorance in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World....

And various family planning measures were illegal in the United States at the time — the Comstock Laws outlawed the use of contraceptives and abortifacients.