Sentences with phrase «of abortion law»

The lobbying efforts of this group contributed to the liberalization of abortion laws in the State of New York before Roe v. Wade, and no doubt had an indirect effect on that decision itself.

At that time, Lader was clearly in favor of a complete liberalization of abortion laws, and he repeatedly suggested throughout the book that the main impediment to such a liberalization was the power of the «Roman Catholic hierarchy.»

With the devolution of abortion law now finalised, there is a danger that this unofficial time limit of 18 - 20 weeks, could be officially lowered and enshrined in law.

Any expansion of abortion laws for any reason through nine months or performed by non-doctors, he said, is disgusting and barbaric.

The Supreme Court's decision upholding a ban on partialbirth abortions, Gonzales v. Carhart, «is a significant step in the right direction — moving away from the infamous «abortion distortion» in Supreme Court jurisprudence and bringing their interpretation of abortion law more in line with other fields of law».

The effectual truth of our abortion law is that having an abortion proves that the embryo was not a person.

The same Americans are not in agreement on what that perception of reality should mean in terms of abortion law, but, if we believe in a society governed by democratic discourse and decision, that perception of reality and the consideration of its legal ramifications can not be ruled out of order.

They, along with others, founded NARAL, the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws (later changed to the National Abortion Rights Action League).

A Christian politician has said democratic values in Northern Ireland must be upheld, amid scrutiny by the Supreme Court of the abortion laws.

Britain's leading pregnancy service has called for a review of abortion laws and for current restrictions requiring two doctors to authorise terminations to be changed.

As of early 1971, there were 17 states which had passed some form of abortion law based on the model code suggested by the American Law Institute.

It is unlikely that any change to the lack of an abortion law in Canad is forthcoming in the near future.

Abortion also became a legal matter, says Jonathan Parent, PhD, a political science professor at Le Moyne College who studies the history of abortion law.

But anti-abortion activists fear that an expansion of abortion laws - presently just proposed legislation that Planned Parenthood supports - could be placed into the state's Constitution.

Even Court watchers who favored legislative liberalization of abortion law were inclined to agree with dissenting Justice Byron White that the case represented an extraordinary judicial power grab.

He added that the need for more information was made more pressing following the devolution of abortion law to Scotland.