Sentences with phrase «of abortion laws in»

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.

The court of appeal in Belfast has today ruled that reform of abortion law in Northern Ireland should be left to the Northern Ireland Assembly, and not decided by the courts.

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

Not exact matches

Abortion has been legal in Canada since 1988, when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Canada's abortion law violated Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees «life, liberty and security of the personAbortion has been legal in Canada since 1988, when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Canada's abortion law violated Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees «life, liberty and security of the personabortion law violated Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees «life, liberty and security of the person.»

Oregon's new law, which aims to provide fully tax - sponsored abortions, could result in a withdrawal of federal funds.

And such groups provided Catholic support for the president in 2009, when he faced conservative Catholic criticism over his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, and in 2010, when the bishops opposed Obama's health care law, alleging that it left the door open to taxpayer - funded abortion.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

These considerations are made even more relevant because of present United States commitments to international treaties on human rights, which could conceivably, at some time, put United States positive laws relating to abortion and the judges who implement them at variance with and in violation of a future international consensus on that issue.»

The minute to bring religion in as your justification for abortion laws (or any laws honestly) the whole argument becomes invalid and should be tossed out due to a seperation of church and state.

Regarding Amy Wax's discussion of abortion and child support: As long as the law guarantees to a woman the absolute, unqualified and unconditional right, regardless of age or status, to give birth anonymously (as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),....

She said: «On the day when the Belfast Court of Appeal ruled that it is up to the Stormont Assembly to decide on abortion law in Northern Ireland, the Government at Westminster has now decided to ride roughshod over the views of the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland.»

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

His colleagues had just sustained a law in Colorado aimed so evidently at one class of demonstrators — pro-lifers outside abortion clinics — and requiring them to stay more than eight feet away from people entering the clinic.

In the eyes of the law, abortion is not murder.

The New York Times: Irish Poised to Revisit Abortion Law Abortion is back on the agenda in Ireland after a European Court of Human Rights ruling last year found the state in violation of its own Constitution on the matter.

Perhaps John of Salisbury would remind us today that the only laws in conformity with equity are those that protect the sacredness of human life and reject the licitness of abortion, euthanasia and bold genetic experimentation, those laws that respect the dignity of marriage between a man and a woman, that are inspired by a correct secularism of the State, a secularism that always entails the safeguard of religious freedom and that pursues subsidiarity and solidarity at both the national and the international level.

Further on he leaps into the Cuomo Straddle with astonishing agility for a man of his years: he was personally opposed to abortion but in his public office he had to respect the law of the land, blah blah blah.

one of the females in your family; your mother or sister or daughter or cousin becomes a ra.pe victim, without abortion laws you are concenting to forcing them to carry that baby to term then go through child birth to deliever it.

In this important work, Duddington takes consideration of a number of key ethical issues that face our contemporary policy and law - makers, including marriage, abortion, euthanasia, reproductive science, and religious conscience and freedoms.

In terms of both constituency and leadership, evangelicals are in the forefront of the movement for more protective attitudes and laws regarding abortioIn terms of both constituency and leadership, evangelicals are in the forefront of the movement for more protective attitudes and laws regarding abortioin the forefront of the movement for more protective attitudes and laws regarding abortion.

Delusional believers could reduce the number of abortions per year in the USA if they just followed their cults» rules, no changes in laws required, no need to enforce their cults» rules on anyone.

A couple of research papers indicated only a decrease in abortion rates that is statistically insignificant (i.e. it could have been due to chance rather than the change in the law), but these have tended to analyse data on abortion rates for all ages, not specifically teenage abortion rates.

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».

Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed a new law that makes it illegal for doctors in the state to perform abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome.

It is women who decide in the huge majority of abortions, because they occur long before viability and this law would have taken that right away.

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 conception.

First, the radical character of Roe — overthrowing abortion laws in 49 states — galvanized pro-life forces.

It continued with the legalisation of abortion; in the United States in 1973 with the Supreme Court Judgement in Roe v. Wade, in the Netherlands through the adoption by Parliament in 1981 of the Law on the interruption of pregnancy.

The slope of the decline in maternal mortality «did not appear to be altered by the change in abortion law,» according to the researchers.

Believers singlehandedly can reduce the number of abortions in the USA by 700,000 each year, if they only followed their own cult's rules, no changes in any law required.

Arkes remains a convinced incrementalist in abortion politics: he recounts the battle over partial - birth abortion (still ongoing) as a «modest first step» away from the jurisprudence of Roe; in a similar vein he has hopes that the Born - Alive Act (now signed into law) might help to revive reasoned public discourse about the true character of abortion.

Embracing an apparent relativism and anti-intellectualism, Prof. Smolin writes: «Even if we immediately restored the preeminence of natural rights / natural law discourse to our national jurisprudence and politics, abortion rights activists would still find ways of justifying the abortion right in that mode of discourse, just as prior generations justified the enslavement of African Americans through invoking God, the nature of things, and the Bible.»

Planned Parenthood and a group of abortion centers in Alabama sued to block the law, arguing that it would close three of the five abortion centers in Alabama.

Spain's new abortion law, as LifeSiteNews reported in an earlier dispatch, «abolishes penalties for all abortions during the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy» and «allows minors to obtain abortions without parental permission, although they must first inform their parents of their intention to do so.»

Unless amended by the Senate, the law's conscience protections will be more meager than those currently afforded in the case of abortion.

And the truth of the matter, most slugs making noise about abortion are only concerned with tax money being used, which in of itself clearly shows they do not know anything about the law, and the use of tax funds for abortion, because it is already illegal.

No matter which way the law leans, human life suffers in the issue of abortion.

Also, just FYI, this country (meaning the US, which I assume is where you live) is not a theocracy, which means that the laws of this country (including the laws regarding abortion) should not be based on any one religion (or holy book) in particular.

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.

Lader argued that the original intent of the anti-abortion laws which were passed in the 19th century was to protect the health of women from the dangers of quack abortionists, but since legal abortions had become so safe, the continued presence of these laws had the opposite of their intended effect, forcing women into a dangerous back - alley underground.

The Hawaiian court has thus set itself on the same course of action as the misguided Supreme Court in 1973 when it thought that laws about abortion were merely an assertion of the rights of a living mother and an unborn fetus.

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.»

In our own time, the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, struck down the abortion laws of all fifty states, effectively wiping out all legal protection of unborn human beings against being killed upon the request of their motherIn our own time, the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, struck down the abortion laws of all fifty states, effectively wiping out all legal protection of unborn human beings against being killed upon the request of their motherin Roe v. Wade, struck down the abortion laws of all fifty states, effectively wiping out all legal protection of unborn human beings against being killed upon the request of their mothers.

Anika Rahman, Director of the International Program for CRLP, claimed, in a letter to the Washington Times (August 31, 2001), that «our lawsuit does not assert that the right to abortion is a principle of international customary law.»

«In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia,» the Pope says, «it is... never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.&raquIn the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia,» the Pope says, «it is... never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.&raquin a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.&raquin favor of such a law, or vote for it.»

Most recently, federal courts of appeal for the Second and Ninth Circuits» the latter court relying explicitly on the abortion jurisprudence of Roe and its progeny» have invalidated laws prohibiting physician - assisted suicide in New York and California.

Ms. Benshoof claims that the CRLP's attempts to enforce «customary international law» are consistent with the American legal system and that, in any event, UN «created norms respect the abortion policy of individual states.

But what is the relationship of natural law and history to the text when Chief Justice Taney could find in the due process clause a constitutional right to own slaves and Justice Blackmun, with the concurrence of six of Ids colleagues, found in the same clause a right to an abortion?

He highlighted the eugenic clause in British law which allows the abortion of babies with disabilities up to birth; and drew attention to «gendercide» — the abortion of little girls merely because of their gender.

Within a couple of years of the widespread availability of the contraceptive pill Britain revised its abortion laws in a permissive direction.