Sentences with phrase «on abortion challenges»

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So when the challenge gets too tough, Logan falls back on what he knows: big, broad comedy — which works well for six - second Vines but not so well for the part of a man who just found out his girlfriend is getting an abortion.

Their lived experience of the effects of contraception, abortion, divorce, and infidelity on their generation has made them passionate about the need for our entire culture - not only Catholics - to embrace the challenge andauthentic freedom embodied in the fullness of the Church's teaching on marriage, family, and sexuality.

Her challenge shakes things up for Democrats who lean pro-life or support certain restrictions on abortions — including her Catholic running mate Tim Kaine.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

She said she is heartbroken and angry about the Vatican's doctrinal assessment that the leadership group representing most American nuns has been challenging the church's doctrine on homosexuality, the male - only priesthood, artificial birth control, celibacy and abortion.

Carol Tauer, a philosopher at Minnesota's St. Catherine's College, has recently challenged the moral logic of this declaration, as well as of the current pastoral teachings on abortion, in an incisive and thorough analysis of the tradition of probabilism — a theory of practical decision - making that is accepted in Catholic moral teaching.

It may well be true that self - consciousness about standing on such shaky ground is the reason why the talk of a woman's «right» to abortion services has become an uncritical mantra, rising to a aggressive assertion when challenged, for this kind of feminist.

Her over 20 years of practice as an attorney includes serving as litigation coordinator for the Women Against Abuse Legal Center in Philadelphia, and on Planned Parenthood's trial team in its challenge to the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act.

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Democratic Senate candidate Adam Haber on Monday challenged Republican incumbent Jack Martins to a debate on women's equality, primarily over abortion rights.

For NARAL, the concern is something of an obvious one: Roe v. Wade remains the law of the land, even as abortion rights on the local level have been challenged.

«When I asked Randy how he would challenge Congressman Garrett, he mentioned his position on abortion (pro-choice) was in contrast with that held by Scott (pro-life),» she wrote in the letter.

An article in some editions on Friday about strong support among Democrats for Representative Chris Gibson, a Republican incumbent in upstate New York who is being challenged by Sean Eldridge, a Democrat, referred incorrectly to Mr. Gibson's position on abortion.

Kansans for Life, the state's largest anti-abortion organization, fought for weeks to maintain a clause in the legislation designed to discourage a court challenge over its ban on drug - induced abortions.

-- Obama has also failed to challenge fossilized foes of meaningful action on energy and climate change, from Senator James Inhofe to the many conservative columnists — along with some liberals — who've distorted the American discourse on climate into an either - or debate over beliefs little different than that on abortion or gun rights.

Several people have drawn parallels between this decision and other, (generally conservative - leaning) decisions on voting rights and abortion rights, particularly in the consistent rejection of facial challenges and in requiring individual plaintiffs return later with more developed facts of particular harms.

Based on the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario publishing two «policy statements» requiring registrants to provide effective referrals, five registrants challenged their obligations to provide effective referrals, on the basis that their having to provide referrals for services that considered wrongful — services such as abortions, medical assistance in dying, or contraception for example — constituted complicity and violated their religious freedom.

The Huffington Post blog also discussed the message challenge in a piece focused on abortion, and another US healthcare blog, KevinMD, looked at the issue from the perspective of dealing with cancer patients.

The lawsuit challenged two far - reaching parts of the law (HB2): 1) a provision which would require that physicians who provide abortions obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital, and 2) restrictions on medication abortion.

They provide 59 % of all U.S. abortions2 and focus primarily on abortion care, and therefore do not typically offer a broad range of reproductive health services.3 Because specialized providers are not designed or often seen as sources of comprehensive or ongoing care — whether for contraception or anything else — it can be all the more challenging for them to devote limited resources to offering more integrated care.