Sentences with phrase «over abortion in»

For years, the commission's 88 member nations have been split along an ideological divide no less profound than the one over abortion in the United States.

I think the debate about whether we should design our children will replace the debate over abortion in the United States and become the object of discussion worldwide.

Not exact matches

In 2008, just over 3,000 legal abortions were performed in the entire country — a tiny number given that Brazil has a population of 200 millioIn 2008, just over 3,000 legal abortions were performed in the entire country — a tiny number given that Brazil has a population of 200 millioin the entire country — a tiny number given that Brazil has a population of 200 million.

An illustrative example of this is the highly - publicized case of Jennie Linn McCormack, an Idaho mother of three who was arrested in 2011 for causing her own abortion with pills she bought over the Internet.

Rap superstar Eminem, with singer Ed Sheeran, just released a track called «River,» in which a man who calls himself a liar and a cheat expresses furious remorse over an affair and an abortion.

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.

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.

For single women, pick a fight over contraception with the Catholic Church and run a national convention in which the centrality of abortion rights startled even seasoned observers.

With more than a hint of exasperation, Scalia concludes: «One will search in vain the document we are supposed to be construing for text that provides the basis for the argument over these distinctions; and will find in our society's tradition regarding abortion no hint that the distinctions are constitutionally relevant, much less any indication how a constitutional argument about them ought to be resolved.

(If that sounds familiar, it's because the same argument was made twenty - five years ago in the early stages of the battle over legalized abortion.)

The proposals for health care in Congress this year, for example, will soon escalate the clash between religious hospitals and state agencies over mandatory performance of abortion: Any single - payer system will prove, as it must, irresistible to social engineers in government, and each twist of the ratchet necessarily moves Catholic hospitals further from the Church and closer to the state.

Left - leaning people are becoming one - issue voters over gay marriage in the same way that right - leaning people make abortion a litmus test.

Debates over how far to go in restricting abortion will likely extend all the way up to the Republican presidential primary, with likely candidates already working hard for Christian Right support.

None of it seemed to matter to those in the trenches, because they already knew what was most important: The legal right to abortion had been guaranteed to them, over and over again.

The Church, however, has consistently taught over the centuries that the direct and intentional taking of innocent human life, as in abortion, is a grave and intrinsic evil.

What if I were to tell that since 1973 in a span of 38 years we have exterminated over 50 million human beings by abortion.

The «Starving Children all over the world can not be solved with abortion» You eave out the facts: Fact one is that many of those governments are in control of the supplies that get to those countries..

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.»

Singer has said that he sometimes thinks he and the Pope are the only ones who understand what is involved in the controversy over abortion and related issues.

Nino let Clarence Thomas take over reading the dissent in Stenberg v. Carhart, as their colleagues were willing to strike down a law in Nebraska that barred the grisly procedure known as «partial - birth abortion.»

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

Patrick Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat, found himself in a similar row with his bishop in 2009 over abortion and was barred from receiving communion.

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, was denied communion over his support for abortion rights, which some bishops said was in direct violation of the church's teachings.

I have great admiration for the courage and the indefatigable spirit that George and Ryan Anderson have shown in the fight against abortion and in the protracted battle over «same sex marriage.»

CNN: Viral video shows Romney in testy exchange over his faith In campaign time, it's ancient history: a 2007 video showing a testy off - air exchange between Mitt Romney and a radio host over the candidate's faith and his stance on abortioin testy exchange over his faith In campaign time, it's ancient history: a 2007 video showing a testy off - air exchange between Mitt Romney and a radio host over the candidate's faith and his stance on abortioIn campaign time, it's ancient history: a 2007 video showing a testy off - air exchange between Mitt Romney and a radio host over the candidate's faith and his stance on abortion.

Now, as many of them argue for forcing others to do what they want, like forcing doctors to refer women to abortionists or even participate in abortions themselves, the traditional goal «has been thrown over in favor of a crusade to establish what might be called... «comprehensive liberalism» as the official pseudo-religion of the state.»

I often meet abortion rights advocates who honestly thought that the national controversy over abortion would simply melt away within a few years of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

(CNN)-- In campaign time, it's ancient history: a 2007 video showing a testy off - air exchange between Mitt Romney and a radio host over the candidate's faith and his stance on abortion.

In population control, euthanasia, abortion, and eugenics, the human person is treated as an object or product to be used or eliminated according to the purposes of those who have power over others.

These feelings run very deep, and the emotional appeal made in arguments over abortion is very strong indeed.

Yes, and there are 300 million citizens in the US and they can't stop from shooting each other and putting each other behind bars, and ruining the world banking system with dubious methods and instruments and wreck people's retirement savings all over the world, not to mention the high abortion rate, murder rate and consumption of resources rate... It's just a disorganized disaster, as opposed to the Nazi's who had an organized disaster.

If both sides can agree on a common objective — to reduce the demand for abortions, maybe we can do something to make a difference in people's lives while we disagree over the larger issue.

I have been a registered nurse for over 37 years, and I remember caring for young women who had been on the receiving end of an illegal abortion before it was legal in this country.

Especially in a country in which folk wisdom and popular religion have diverse cultural sources, the appeal to these is often highly divisive, as today over issues of abortion and homosexuality and religious practices in the schools.

From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions.

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

Over a million abortions are performed in America each year.

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.

But a serious analysis of survey data over time provides little evidence that this fall's election cycle substantially shifted public opinion in favor of legal abortion.

In an article on Think Progress, Zach Beauchamp cites a study by political scientists Thomas Carsey and Geoffrey Layman which shows that over time, people often change their abortion attitudes to match the political party they generally support.

Don't want an abortion, don't have one but don't think your personal belief trumps the laws that you must bide by in this world and please don't think they deserve respect when obviously they are being use to step on other peoples rights to freedom over their own body.

I care about the life people like you are attempting to force in to this world, you care about what appeases your god - big difference when you really don't care or consider the child only what your imaginary friend god wants and yet your god cause abortions all the time... you care about a clump of cells, not the actual life of the child and that's much worse than me supporting the rights of a woman to have control over her body, especially if the clump of cells couldn't survive outside of the host.

Should one invoke the same arguments used in the debate over abortion, or is this a separate issue?

The recent fight over taxpayer funding of abortion in the national health - care bill revealed not only that pro-life Democrats exist in the U.S. Congress but also that they come in three distinct types: stalwarts, sellouts, and snakes.

My concern was particularly with the pro-life movement, and I noted the general increase in opposition to abortion among the neocons over the last decade.

Again, despite the generous social programs, over 60 percent of pregnancies to women under 20 in the Netherlands still end in abortion.

In the debate over abortion there has been much discussion surrounding «the seamless garment» as a metaphor for the so - called «life issues.»

He went on to say that over 60 percent of women who come in for an abortion are alone and live below the poverty line.

If a large group of people of a certain belief moved into your area becoming the majority they could take over the hospitals essentially denying you services (as is the case in much of the south for abortion).

Related to the third problem, above, there is no change in the public debates over cloning, abortion, euthanasia, and so on.