Here's one of the areas
on abortion with the most agreement: A whopping 87 percent of poll respondents said that a woman seeking an abortion should receive medically accurate information.
You may start your persuasive essay
on abortion with a brief overview of the Ten Commandments as they are presented in the Holy Bible and explain that killing a small embryo is similar to killing a human being.
Somehow, we have to break the identification of the sides
on abortion with the sides on religion, and I'm not sure how to do that without one side or the other surrendering on abortion.
Not exact matches
The source of anger in each case was a conflict (orchestrated by Bushman's research team)
with someone who vehemently disagreed
with the student's views
on abortion.
At issue: was it legal for anti-abortion groups to use this new marketing technique to directly communicate
with young women
on their way to get
abortions?
With hot - button right - wing populist issues like
abortion and capital punishment largely off the table in Canadian politics, the long - gun registry took
on disproportionate importance for that portion of the Conservative base.
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.»
Dawn Huckelbridge, director of American Bridge's Women's Rights Initiative, released the following statement in response to the US Senate's vote
on a bill that would ban
abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and threaten doctors
with jail time:
So Randy Barnett, who disagrees
with Mitt
on stuff like
abortion, is shouting, in his highly principled libertarian way, that this is the most important election in a long time.
Since then, DeMoss has helped evangelical leaders not only become more comfortable
with the idea of a Mormon in the White House but also
with Romney's evolving position
on issues like gay marriage and
abortion.
He did not dwell
on abortion, but he would visit the subject from time to time in his homilies, usually from the standpoint of one who identifies
with the aborted.
I, and almost every Christian I know and share my faith
with, abhor the burning of Q'ur «an's, shooting of
abortion doctors, and the comments of these few radicals about the people of Alabama bringing
on the tornado or Haiti's earthquake.
If you think eating animals is murder, or if you feel
abortion before 24 weeks is murder, thats fine, but leave your feelings at home along
with your buckets of cow blood you planned
on throwing at people who don't share your «feelings».
@Ed, «Wait a minute... what's wrong
with Christians trying to stop the legalization of
abortion on demand and same sex marriages?»
Wait a minute... what's wrong
with Christians trying to stop the legalization of
abortion on demand and same sex marriages?
I think your position is the position of most pro-choice supporters, my issue
with the religious pro-life side is they do not want to support the very things that have been shown to have to largest impact
on reducing
abortion, s.e.x education and contraception.
The number one issue is
abortion on every agenda, yet this is an issue which is not stopped by legislation, it is stopped by attacking poverty, by increasing love for children, by accepting everything a sinner does — instead the goal is secular laws, shaming women
with ultrasounds.
I'm all about Life, and I'm all for
abortions, but what's
with the interracial agenda they are pushing
with that black dude and the white girl
with the red bow in her hair??? does anybody really expect that license plate to get approved in North Carolina??? come
on...
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).
@Live4Him, «It's a religion that begins
with single position
on a single subject, but leads to multiple positions
on multiple subjects (i.e.
abortion, gays, etc.).»
So does that mean since a bunch of rogue nuns
with feminist ideals taught over the last 50 years should force the Church to change its current teaching
on euthanasia, gay marriage, and
abortion?
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.
The second instance is scheduled to occur
on May 17, 2009 when the University of Notre Dame will salute the nation's leading
abortion advocate,
with an honorarydoctor of laws degree at the 164th university commencement ceremony.
They talk about an attack
on religious teachings while speaking at an NRA event about how
abortion is murdering unborn children while at the same time wanting to go to war and bomb thousands of innocent men, women, children, as well as innocent pregnant women
with unborn babies.
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.»
Pro - Life / Pro-Choice No matter where you stand
on abortion, find someone who holds the opposite view and is willing to have a conversation
with you.
For example, there are data to indicate that persons living
on the west coast or in the northeast are more likely than midwesterners and southerners to have had extramarital affairs, to have had an
abortion, or to have had sex
with sixty - one or more persons, and they are also less likely to find one - night stands degrading.
One could have an
abortion and happy they denied life to an innocent in favor of their own lifestyle, one could have a baby
with the intent
on sacrificing it to Satan in some way, shape, or form, it could go lots of different ways for lots of different reasons but contradicting itself is of absolutely no concern as a lot of Satanists also label themselves «nonreligious».
With Dumbo - crats stainchly
on the
abortion bandwagon, it's lucky the USA still has any kids being born.
On his release, he managed to flee the country
with his pregnant wife, who faced the threat of a forced
abortion.
Those who are disposed to looking for «loopholes» or «exceptions»
with respect to the Church's teaching
on abortion will predictably exploit such a statement.
According to Terry O'Neill, the president of the National Organization for Women
on MSNBC April 14th, 2011
with Rachel Maddow Planned Parenthood does not provide
abortions when in fact they most certainly do.
«The «right to
abortion,»
with its theme of sexual liberation,» as Hadley Arkes puts it, «has become the central peg
on which the interests of the Democratic party have been arranged,» just as, «since the days of Ronald Reagan, the Republican party has become... the pro-life party in our politics.»
The association
with the Religious Right has cost Grey some support among liberals, who believe that by working
with the right, Grey legitimates their position
on other issues, such as
abortion and gay rights.
Nor should it have been a surprise that the Court, having successfully claimed for itself the authority to write a «living Constitution» based
on penumbras and emanations, should assume the roles of National Metaphysician and National Nanny (as it did in Casey,
with its famous «mystery of life» passage and its hectoring injunction to a fractious populace to fall into line behind the Court's
abortion jurisprudence).
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.
Even If the due - process provision calls
on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem
with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized
abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.
The research evidence
on this question is hard to deny and right in line
with the predictions of the economic models: prohibition of secret
abortions cuts both teenage
abortion rates and teenage pregnancy rates.
With all of the problems facing our country, why the emphasis
on abortion in the first place mystifies me.
«I'd have to agree
with that,» said Savage, who'd just suggested, apparently mostly joking, that «
abortion should be mandatory for about thirty years» because «there's too many [rude word deleted] people
on the planet.»
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.
So,
with those considerations in mind, I think it's safer to say that while legal restrictions
on abortion might put a dent in the
abortion rate, they won't put an end to
abortion as we know it, and, most importantly, they won't do a thing to alter the number of unwanted pregnancies.
By focusing exclusively
on the legal components of
abortion while simultaneously opposing these family - friendly social policies, the Republican Party has managed to hold pro-life voters hostage
with the promise of outlawing
abortion, (which has yet to happen under any Republican administrations since Roe v. Wade), while actively working against the very policies that would lead to a significant reduction in unwanted pregnancies.
With opposition to
abortion often playing out in voting for candidates — at least in part — based
on their reproductive stances, and efforts to fight
abortion often playing out in courtrooms and legislation, the pro-life movement has taken
on a distinctly political direction.
The Church speaks
with Christ's own authority
on faith and morals and evils such as
abortion, casual sex, the culture (or «anti-culture») of recreational drugs, binge - drinking, and pornography.
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».
Anyone
with a conscious objection to subsidizing
abortion, whether through donations or a mandated «premium charge»
on their health plan, should be able to opt out of this.
On the pro-life side, ban
abortions after 20 weeks (
with an exception for the mother's life) and make permanent the long - standing and bipartisan - crafted principles of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the direct federal funding of
abortion.
Canada has a much lower
abortion rate
with a higher atheist / agnostic rate than the US (and there are NO restrictions
on abortion in Canada).
Most of the pastors
with whom I have any contact see
abortion as okay, homosexuality as just another lifestyle choice, and so
on.