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For an objective overview of the abortion debate in a vein which parallels the present essay, see M. Vanderford.

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You don't think the «elephant in the room» of OUR time is the fact that we awkwardly pretend affirmative action isn't racist; abortion isn't murder; people compare the gay marriage debate to 300 + years of black slavery, oppression, and / or murder; and the major political parties act like Ron Paul doesn't exist?

It was that consensus that unraveled in the debates over Vietnam, civil rights, abortion, sexual morality, women's issues, and the limits of tolerance.

In that connection, they might read in particular the dissenting opinion written by James Burtchaell, author of Rachel Weeping and one of the most incisive minds today exploring the ramifications of the abortion debate (see This World, Summer 1989In that connection, they might read in particular the dissenting opinion written by James Burtchaell, author of Rachel Weeping and one of the most incisive minds today exploring the ramifications of the abortion debate (see This World, Summer 1989in particular the dissenting opinion written by James Burtchaell, author of Rachel Weeping and one of the most incisive minds today exploring the ramifications of the abortion debate (see This World, Summer 1989).

Jeffes does not shy away from some of the most sensitive issues in this debate: abortion after rape, and when a disability is discovered.

@ LinCA: 55 * million * abortions and counting in the US... EITHER that's 55 million murders or 55 million celebrations of freedom — that's the debate.

(It should be noted that late tern abortions make up a very small percentage of abortions, as do cases of rape and incest... so both sides tend to appeal to rare cases in debates.)

In fact, I wonder if an appreciation of the nuances in the debate, and of abortion's connection to traditionally «progressive» issues like poverty and healthcare, may actually make those of us who are «stuck in the middle» especially effective agents of changIn fact, I wonder if an appreciation of the nuances in the debate, and of abortion's connection to traditionally «progressive» issues like poverty and healthcare, may actually make those of us who are «stuck in the middle» especially effective agents of changin the debate, and of abortion's connection to traditionally «progressive» issues like poverty and healthcare, may actually make those of us who are «stuck in the middle» especially effective agents of changin the middle» especially effective agents of change.

The two «no compromise» factions in the abortion debate are, on the one hand, the 20 percent who favor the present unlimited abortion license and, on the other, those who would effect a national prohibition of all abortions, which is also about 20 percent of the population.

The CNN debate opened with discussions on economic issues, but later veered toward faith - based matters like the role of religion in candidates» decision making, abortion, gay marriage — and how the United States ought to treat Muslims living within its borders.

Earlier this month, the Texas legislature approved a loudly - debated package of restrictions on abortions in the Lone Star State; among other things, requiring abortion clinics to bring their facilities in line with surgical standards and banning abortions after 20 weeks.

Given the divisiveness of this question in relation to the abortion debate, this is the hardest issue that must be considered, and one that can not be fully resolved.

They recognized, as United Methodists on either side of the abortion debate have recognized until recently, that the in vitro human embryo makes, at the very least, an iconic moral claim.

It is said that the important debates in bioethics must move «beyond» the question of abortion.

2) What is the significance of the language of «rights» in the abortion debate?

I am suggesting that if we consider the abortion debate as a clash between two philosophically divergent camps, who live in completely different intellectual worlds, then we are failing to recognize a crucially important element of the debate.

The participants in the abortion debate seem, most of the time, to presuppose that the beliefs (moral / scientific / religious / legal / philosophical) of the pro-choice and pro-life camps are widely divergent at many points.

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Following the McCain - Obama debate in which abortion was addressed, Kmiec wrote in the Los Angeles Times: «Sometimes the law must simply leave space for the exercise of individual judgement, because our religious or scientific differences of opinion are for the moment too profound to be bridged collectively.

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.

In the words of Pope John Paul II in the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the abortion debate is about the conflict between «the culture of life and the culture of death.&raquIn the words of Pope John Paul II in the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the abortion debate is about the conflict between «the culture of life and the culture of death.&raquin the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the abortion debate is about the conflict between «the culture of life and the culture of death.»

Even in that country which has so steadfastly refused to have the abortion debate, waves have been caused by the news that in the last two years alone the bodies of more than 15,000 aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated by twenty - seven National Health Service trusts.

The abortion debate in Italy has been reignited by the story of a baby that was found still alive after a botched abortion.

Afraid of being branded as moralists, or even worse, proselytizers, politicians cling to surface arguments that remain in the public's comfort zone, choosing sides in the familiar debates on school prayer, pornography, media immorality and abortion.

He said: «We're going to need to change by virtue a humanised political debate over exactly what we want to see in our country, that means changing the law, it is also changing the culture so people view abortion as what it is, destruction of an unborn child.»

One of the interesting aspects which seems to me especially important in the debate about abortion is the pre-natal learning of the child in the womb as a subject of ongoing research.

The very first argument advanced in the first congressional debates over extending Medicaid funding to abortion referred to the many millions of dollars in future welfare costs that abortion would save.

Marking the boundaries of the onset of personhood in fetal life is, in a sense, a superficial aspect of the abortion debate.

Besides condemning abortion and euthanasia as attacks on human life, Evangelium Vitae addresses other hotly debated issues in medical ethics that implicate the value and dignity of human life.

On Jan. 22, the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Sojourners president Jim Wallis issued a statement calling for a change in the debate over abortion.

Ms. Goodman, like so many others, simply wants to prejudge the outcome of that debate with a diktat in favor of «abortion rights.»

It took a while for some to appreciate the contours of the debate, but in the decades after Roe v. Wade, there came to be a gradual appreciation of the deep connection between the Judeo - Christian framework and full - throated opposition to most forms of abortion.

Bernardin's approach is one that I found deeply compelling three decades ago, and I thought it showed promise of breaking through the impasse between the two sides in the abortion debate.

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But however we characterize it, the chief value of After Roe lies in the corrective it offers of various false or misleading narratives about our post-1973 abortion debate.

The discussion highlighted the need for a substantive parliamentary debate on the current abortion legislation since medical science and practice is raising serious questions over when the foetus becomes viable outside the womb, the current twenty - four week limit for «social» abortion and the growing number of doctors in the UK who are refusing to perform abortions because of the aforementioned.

Debates about this will easily generate much more heat than light unless the energy of both sides is focused on the right question, which is: «Given that 200,000 abortions a year is far too many, how can a deliverable change in the law most effectively reduce that number?»

In the course of that debate, Mourdock was asked about his views on abortion and if there is ever a reason to terminate a pregnancy.

This is good news, but in addition to debating the merits and risks of the devolution of abortion law, abortion rights supporters in Scotland and beyond need to mobilise and work together to ensure that, whatever the outcome of the devolution process, women's reproductive rights in Scotland are protected.

The Assembly Democratic conference, which is poised to release its one - house budget proposal, is upping the ante in the abortion rights debate in light of President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision and return this controversial issue back to the states.

The push would reignite a heated debate over the RHA, a measure that is aimed at the codification of Roe v. Wade in state law and is deeply opposed by opponents of abortion, who have argued it's a needless expansion of existing rights in New York.

The ruling released on Monday in a 5 - 3 decision is being considered by advocates on both sides of the abortion debate as one of the most consequential in a generation from the high court.

Abortion is just about the most emotionally - sensitive issue for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, but passions were kicked into overdrive in that afternoon's debate after Assemblyman Ron Castorina, a Republican who has been in the chamber for a little more than a month, compared the procedure to «African - American genocide.»

The Women's Equality Act, and specifically, the parts of it dealing with abortion, was a hotly debated issue between the two candidates for the second district state Assembly seat during a debate Monday night at Polish Hall in Riverhead, which was sponsored and moderated by news website RiverheadLocal.com.

Since the vast majority of abortions in the United States are elective (i.e. not connected to health concerns of the fetus or mother, and not due to rape or incest), the central issue surrounding the abortion debate is a moral argument.

In autumn 2007 a review of the Abortion Act 1967 by the Commons» science and technology committee re-opened the debate.

SUNY's quick adoption of the proposal, without debate, enables Cuomo to further claim women's rights as his platform in next month's election against Republican Rob Astorino, who the governor has criticized for opposing abortion.

ALBANY — Legislation dealing with abortion rarely leads to amicable debates in the state Legislature, but the Assembly's vote on Tuesday to codify Roe v. Wade resulted in one of the chamber's most tense moments this year.

Derek Morgan, a lawyer at the University of Glasgow who specialises in reproductive law, speculates that the government may have backed the amendment to forestall any debate on the use of fetal tissue, which is guaranteed to lead to new calls to tighten up abortion laws.