Sentences with phrase «of abortion advocates»

You seem conversant with the principles involved and I have to admit, I can not prognosticate on how the court will ultimately rule but it is fascinating to me to see the debate move from the emotional context of abortion advocates and religious defenders into the fulcrum of Constiitutional adherence.

And I have yet to hear of an abortion advocate who has rectified, by suicide, his parents» decision not to abort him, or who even argues, in acknowledgement of the burdens his childhood imposed on his parents, that they should have aborted him.

Not exact matches

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Podesta is for abortion, on demand, and its public financing (his candidate advocates disposing of the Hyde Amendment).

I was baffled when another friend announced she would never support any organization that promotes breast cancer research, as she believed most of them also advocate abortion.

I am an staunch advocate of abortion rights.

The second instance is scheduled to occur on May 17, 2009 when the University of Notre Dame will salute the nation's leading abortion advocate, with an honorarydoctor of laws degree at the 164th university commencement ceremony.

Robert Drinan, S.J., friend of her family and in all his years in Congress (1971 to 1981) an ardent advocate of abortion «rights.»

Of course, Ms. Crandall adds, «there was probably something disingenuous even at the time in abortion advocates» concern for children.»

What is somewhat discomfiting about Percy as dialectician» and the dialectical is the principal aspect of his fiction, as well as central to his other work, including his interviews» is his seeming inconstancy in holding the advocates of tenderness to account in their various causes, even those separate from euthanasia and abortion, those other causes to which he himself is committed.

It's one thing to say a women has a legal right to an abortion (especially since the Supreme Court affirmed that right) and quite another to say one «advocates the killing of the unborn».

I don't have time for your silly mind games, did you understand that you are advocating bloody murder in the name of abortion?

But also here — with the hostility of the rainbow crowd and abortion advocates expressed toward any who disagree — which Bible believers do.

Some thoughtful analysts, including some pro-life advocates, have suggested that the legal battle to end abortion has at last ended in defeat with this report of an apparently effective and safe medical form of abortion.

I often meet abortion rights advocates who honestly thought that the national controversy over abortion would simply melt away within a few years of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

There are times when it is hard to accept that advocates of legal abortion mean what they say.

I was pleased to see many pro-choice advocates acknowledging that the stark reminder of what happens to a fetus in a late term abortion was rightfully unsettling.

What frustrates me about the pro-choice movement is the lengths to which advocates go to de-humanize unborn children and sanitize the abortion procedure, reducing life to nothing more than a cluster of cells and the implications of pregnancy to little more than a choice.

They bear a great resemblance to what Pope John Paul II called «the culture of death», with its downgrading of marriage, its advocating of euthanasia, abortion and contraception.

When abortion - rights advocates and their allies ask why the abortion issue will not just go away, they really mean to ask why, given the stark reality of Roe, the pro-life movement has not dissipated and retreated into the history books.

The fact that the murder of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller is still making headlines nearly two weeks after his death has led some to accuse the media of exploiting the situation to paint all pro-life advocates as violent extremists.

Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.»

Although Cardinal Bernardin advocated what he called a «consistent ethic of life,» he made it clear that capital punishment should not be equated with the crimes of abortion, euthanasia, and suicide.

Thus, Professor Rice asserted that a Catholic politician has an obligation to work to prohibit abortion and never to advocate for payment of abortions.

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.

To give you an idea of what the new Bible - based order would be like, Dr. North advocates public execution of women who undergo abortions, and a similar fate for those who advise them to do so.

Some pro-life leaders have advocated repeal of «Obamacare,» because it requires the public in various ways to fund abortion.

Thus some advocates of abortion on demand are now admitting that the fetus might very well be more than a part of the body of its mother but, nevertheless, because it is dependent on its mother for its life, she has the right to end that life if it interferes with the exercise of her own personal liberty.

In view of these realities, one hopes that more politicians will emerge who have the wit to recognize the political advantage in advocating more protective abortion policies.

Third, abortion advocates, without any doubt, are attempting to further their agenda by using international meetings that have little if any political oversight by, or democratic accountability to, the electorates of the nations attending those meetings.

See paragraph 89 of the Center's lawsuit, which alleges that «CRLP advocates» for «interpretations of existing treaties and other international human rights agreements that favor protection of reproductive rights, including abortion, as internationally recognized human rights.»

Unlike Francis, these bishops over-emphasize abortion, advocate bigotry under the guise of «religious liberty,» and care more about political battles than the care of souls.

Many of the people from these same institutions advocate against abortion, but pretend not to understand the realistic benefit of the morning after pill or even basic contraception; their unrealistic wishful thinking is causing the death of many at the hands of disease.

In a debate with an advocate for abortion, one occasionally comes up against an informed opponent who seeks to undermine the Church's position on the issue by pointing out that the Universal Doctor of the Church, St Thomas Aquinas, held to the doctrine of delayed animation or hominisation.

Thus Emily Yoffe's youthful acquaintance with Fr Robert Drinan, SJ, friend of her family and in all his years in Congress (1971 to 1981) an ardent advocate of abortion «rights».

A proposal to stop Christians and other pro-life advocates from meeting outside an abortion clinic in west London has won the backing of the local borough.

She has also advocated for ending the pro-life Hyde Amendment, first enacted in 1976 and passed in some form ever since, which prevents taxpayer funding of elective abortions through federal programs like Medicaid.

According to the ethics report, physicians objecting to abortion or contraception must refer patients desiring such services to other providers (recommendation # 4); may not argue or advocate their views on these matters though they are required to provide prior notice to their patients of their moral commitments (recommendation # 3); and, in emergency cases or in situations that might negatively affect patient physical or mental health, they must actually provide contraception and / or perform abortions (recommendation # 5, emphasis added).

The rhetoric of abortion advocacy contains a truth that abortion advocates often fail to perceive.

When the teachings of the Church are attacked and their advocates described publicly as bigots, who is there to come forward to restate and defend the universal principles that underlie Catholic doctrine on abortion, homosexual and extramarital sex, euthanasia and so forth?

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts can not be ignored.

Just as abortion, gay rights, and baseball doping will have no effect on the economy, illegal invaders, the wars we are locked in, or the housing market, neither will the candidate's religious beliefs (counting any religion that advocates the murder of others, the subjugating of women, and the establishment of it's own set of laws — though I have no idea or what major religion would do so...).

If he was a person of faith, he would not advocate for abortion and would not have had symbols of Catholicism covered during his tour of Notre Dame University.

Responding to a recent piece by Anne Hendershott on the decision of Cardinal Sean O'Malley not to attend the commencement at Boston College because Irish prime minister (and abortion - rights advocate) Enda Kenny was selected for an honorary degree and address to the graduates, a letter - writer....

The nightmare for abortion advocates is a spreading consciousness of how exactly a healthy fetus is turned into a mass of marketable organs, how, in the words of a senior Planned Parenthood official, one might use «a less crunchy technique» — crush the head, spare the organs — «to get more whole specimens.»

And they and Member States that support abortion are always advocating for the inclusion of sexual and reproductive rights.

Complicating the situation further is the fact that the Catholic bishops advocate many of the same positions taken by the Catholic Alliance / Christian Coalition, including strong opposition to abortion, and the selective return of power to state and local governments.

The House voted 237 - 189 in favor of the Pain - Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which targets late - term abortions at the point where pro-life advocates argue that babies can feel pain in utero.

Bolstered by a young generation of pro-life millennials and new developments in prenatal treatment, advocates see themselves in a better position than ever to change minds on abortion.

Pro-life advocates welcomed the report, and pointed to the work of pro-life citizens and legislators as a reason for the dramatic decline in abortions and their rate.