Sentences with phrase «of abortions as»

It called for a dialogue on abortion among Catholics — a dialogue that would acknowledge this situation of pluralism, not only in regard to practice (Catholics have about the same proportion of abortions as Protestants in the United States), but in regard to the ethical state of the question.

The reality, Reed contends, is that abortions that happen in response to rape and incest are a «statistically insignificant portion of abortions as a whole, even as they represent a significant national tragedy.»

It will reduce the number of abortions as well as the costs associated with unwanted children.

the equally mindless endorsement of all types of domestic radical isms from the Black Panthers to Greenpeace, the insouciant acceptance of millions of abortions as simply an expression of the right to choose, not to mention the other (less tangible) damage done to many lives by the brashs social engineering of new middle - class professionals (for instance.

Even women seem to have opted out of the notion of abortion as a medical issue.

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.

If Roe V. Wade were magically reversed today, the putative right to abortion would still inform our social and moral architecture; men and women would still think of abortion as necessary and structure their lives accordingly.

In Casey v. Planned Parenthood, which enshrined the right of abortion as a specifically protected Fourteenth Amendment liberty, the majority lectured pro-lifers for continuing to contest the abortion issue.

«It shows that women are rejecting the idea of abortion as the answer to an unexpected pregnancy»...

Women who can accept themselves as both creators and destroyers are considered healthy and compassionate, able to extend nonjudgmental support toward the act of abortion as well as to the woman who aborts.

Peter Singer, for example, speaks plainly of abortion as the taking of human life and warns those who try to rest the «pro-choice» case on that denial that they are placing their (and his) cause in jeopardy.

(with exception of abortion as means of birth control) but the best is responsible se x

operating a family planning counseling service that provides advice and information regarding the benefits and availability of abortion as a method of family planning;

Not exact matches

Coleman says her captors forced the abortion of her first child as revenge for Boyle's unwillingness to cooperate with them.

Although the exact number of illegal abortions in the U.S. is hard to determine, many reproductive rights experts believe that self - induced abortions will continue to rise as the process of finding a legal abortion becomes more time - consuming and difficult.

As Barroso explained, the black market nature of abortions in Brazil has attracted scam artists who exploit the vulnerability of women seeking to end their pregnancies.

Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

She also discussed some of the women's health and family policies that she would prioritize in the White House, such as paid family leave and access to birth control and safe abortion.

Skillful use of wedge issues such as abortion could make an electoral difference in that context.

«Of course, women shouldn't be punished,» rival Republican candidate John Kasich said on Wednesday, saying he opposed abortion except in specific cases such as rape.

As the abortion language represents the sole area of disagreement among lawmakers on this vital legislation, trafficking abolitionists are eager to see a compromise worked out.

A moderate, Lamb is personally opposed to abortion, not in favor of a ban on assault rifles, and has stated that he wouldn't support Nancy Pelosi as the Democrats» House leader.

Harper told Southam News in 2001 that he leaned toward a pro-life stance, and added that he supported the Alliance's policy of dealing with moral issues such as abortion and capital punishment through citizen - initiated referendums.

He's never really tried to sell himself as a family man in the traditional sense and wears the hypocrisy of his political commitment to abortion restrictions and abstinence - only sex education very lightly.

Mr. Lamb ran as an anti-Pelosi Democrat with moderate views on abortion, Mr. Coughlin said, «and the candidate out here is not doing any of those things; she's running a more typical Democratic campaign.»

UCP MLAs sat stonefaced and silent Thursday, looking at phones and tablets as opponents accused them of misogyny and political cowardice over the government's proposed abortion clinic buffer zone bill.

Speaking to the High River Times in April 2015, Mr. Fraser was quoted as saying «I will emphasize the Pro-Life values of Albertans, making constituents and other candidates aware of the issues surrounding abortion and how they are directly relevant to provincial policy... We should de-fund abortion and fund the life affirming alternatives of crisis pregnancy support, parental support, and adoption.»

What you morons describe as «partial - birth abortion» was outlawed YEARS ago because of zealots like you.

I was very niave as alot of commenters are here today stating that abortions only take place on a blob of cells.

Definition of abortion states that when a fetus is killed as a direct result of any action taken, it is abortion.

Safe abortions will never go away as they are still needed to save life (even in the early 1900s doctors had to abort babies so at least the mother could live when tuberculosis was the leading cause of death and it was terminal for a pregnant mother).

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

Since I don't think of an embryo as being an equivalent to an actual person (my opinion, yours may vary), I would probably have chosen an abortion if the situation had come up.

Well, if you look at the statistical analysis, you will find that as abortion became legal and safe, the rate of violent crime has dropped in this country — significantly and with a high correlation to access to safe and legal abortions.

But also you have to consider that aside from the «Big 2» issues of Gay Marriage and Abortion... Romney was portrayed as anti-poor, anti-charity, anti-government programs for the needy... and these are issues that the Christian base disagrees with strongly.

If Obama wants to spend the election talking to an economy - minded electorate about abortion from his own exposed position as a supporter of partial birth abortion and sex selective abortions, then Republicans should welcome such a Democrat strategy.

By framing abortion as a nearly unqualified constitutional right, without fully considering the claims of fetal life, we have not taken a stride to a more virtuous society.

He takes no position on capital punishment, abortion, or just war (the irresolvability of which he regards as indicative of our impoverished ethical conversation).

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.

The growing acceptance of abortion and euthanasia in Western societies depicts the weak and vulnerable as being outside the human community.

«We ask your benediction on those waiting to be born, that they may be welcomed and protected,» Dolan, who as the Archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has spoken out strongly against abortion, said at the DNC.

No one is saying that the other religions / philosopies are not as bad, although I have never heard of a politician who follows Buddhist tradition trying to stop legalization of abortions, or an adherent of Jainism trying to stop same sex marriage.

Granted, we aren't super violent as a group, but just as a couple of examples: Timothy McVey was a Christian as was the Olympic Park Bomber, as are abortion clinic bombers and doctor killers.

Most religions have consistently resisted progress — including the abolition of slavery; women's right to vote and choose contraception and abortion; medical developments such as the use of anesthesia; scientific understanding of the heliocentric solar system and evolution, and the American principle of state / church separation.

Groups such as Catholics United and Faith in Public Life got off the ground during and just after the 2004 election when a Catholic Democratic presidential nominee - Sen. John Kerry - was hard - pressed to find Catholic support in the face of condemnations from some Catholic bishops over his support for abortion rights.

Republicans fall for it because the have no real connection with most Americans... the need it to get control of the country... Christians fall for it because they use the black and white issue of abortion and gay and lesbian marriage... while completely ignore the harvest field of the Muslim world because they have guns adn will kill you if yo uso much as fart while Muhammad is takign a dump... there's billion Muslims and very few Christians willin to go there... it's obvious a job for a million Christians a real million man and woman army willin gto die for Jesus Christ and stop talkign all the time about abortin abortion abortion and the gay thisn and anythinng else..

They are extremely rare procedures, as most abortions take place before the 9th week of gestation, when the fetus is nothing more then a ball of dividing cells.

Just as it is OK for a doctor to perform an operation or a medical procedure that has a good chance of causing an abortion in a pregnant woman.

Other Christians invoke images of persecution when someone disagrees with them on controversial issues such as abortion or birth control, says Moss, whose «The Myth of Persecution» was recently released.

Critics of Roe v. Wade have long contended that the principles used to justify abortion would soon or late be used to justify other forms of medical killing such as voluntary and, eventually, involuntary euthanasia.