Sentences with phrase «parenthood means»

Would you like to share your story about what Planned Parenthood means to you as an activist, patient or supporter?

Tell us what Planned Parenthood means to you.

«For many patients, Planned Parenthood is the only health - care provider they see, and blocking them from coming to Planned Parenthood means there would be nowhere else to go,» she added.

To me, parenthood means putting the child first, and an infant or toddler does not know what is best for themselves.

Not exact matches

We need to develop deeper discussions about the meaning and nature of parenthood, gender, and biology.

It means celebrating parenthood by making America the most generous country in the developed world when it comes to maternity and paternity leave, not the least generous, and it means working together on efforts to reduce the costs of food, diapers, childcare, pediatrician visits, college tuition, adoption, and resources for special needs children.

Parenthood becomes idolatrous when we seek meaning through the lives of our children.

Nor will I give heed here to ways in which new reproductive technologies — or, should the day come, cloning — can subvert the meaning of parenthood.

This 99 \ % - correlated grant payment, when combined with the average $ 468 paid by aborting mothers, means that Planned Parenthood receives $ 1,522 per aborted life, or $ 501.4 million in 2010 (48 \ % of all revenues).

This means the best linear model of Planned Parenthood's contraception activities calls for Planned Parenthood to «distribute» 1.38 million contraception units even while receiving no government funds (a y - axis intercept means a zero value for the x variable, being government payments).

The impact of a biomedical revolution raises new issues about sexual practices, the nature of conception and childbearing, and the meaning of marriage and parenthood.

The libertine guardians of the sexual revolution brook no dissent from the idea, so famously articulated in Casey vs. Planned Parenthood, that «at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»

It is hard for the older generation to accept the fact that parenthood is now subject to choice, especially when it means that they may never have grandchildren.

Kennedy is the same justice who gave out in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) that «At the heart of liberty, is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»

«Planned Parenthood has probably never been more powerful — and that means it has also never been more vulnerable to both external pressures and internal ones such as a change in leadership.»

Since Humanae Vitae, the fiftieth anniversary of which we celebrate this year, there has been a constant stream of Jesuit moral theologians arguing in print that the encyclical was a mistake, that it is enough if the unitive and procreative dimensions of sex and marriage are linked in only a very general way — not in each marital act — and that the really deep meaning of Paul VI's teaching is that couples should exercise responsible parenthood.

The term «informed choice» within a Catholic text is no more to be interpreted as implying the secular rhetoric of choice, than a term used in Catholic teaching like «responsible parenthood» is meant to imply to a secular rhetorician, «contraception».

First of all, call your best friend and discuss the finale of Parenthood and WHAT IT ALL MEANS.

But what does it really mean to ask for a «new ethic of responsible parenthood» for the many young, poor women who see having children as «an absolutely essential part of a young woman's life, the chief source of identity and meaning» as well as a mature, responsible choice, as Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas discovered in their ground - breaking book Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.

So peaceful, in fact, that you are literally lulled into believing that the stories you have heard about new parenthood are lies meant to scare you.

I mean, you never hear about how hard parenthood is for dads.

So, by all means, bring on the poop and pee and spit - up and just anything that goes along with parenthood... because parenthood, to us, is absolutely everything.

Let us celebrate this glorious journey that we call parenthood... and by celebrate I mean lock ourselves in the bathroom, open a bottle of wine together, drown out the whining, tattling and screaming.

She's interested in an «ethic of responsible parenthood,» which sounds good on surface but borders on elitism once you start exploring what that may mean: George Lucas adopted two children as a single man and I will bet that Sawhill would not insist that he have a partner first and wait until they are «ready to be parents» — he was wealthy enough to hire surrogate moms until he married again and, last year, became a biological dad at age 69.

According to Margaret, respectful bereavement care means acknowledging parenthood, facilitating attachment between the baby and family and supporting the grieving process and various ways of grieving.

In our culture of «perfect parenthood,» it seems like most people believe that «breast is best» and that, of course, means that formula is not.

Transitioning to parenthood or even adding another child doesn't have to mean life gets more stressful and crazy expensive.

My theory on parenthood — ~ some people are meant to be parents, others aren't ~ some people are meant to be parents of children by birth, others not ~ some people are meant to be parent by adoption (or marriage, or fostering, or...) others not.

We were already trying to adjust to parenthood, exhausted and sort of worried and kind of clueless, so the idea that part of that adjustment would mean sharing a bed with a tiny human, worried me.

That doesn't mean you are doing it wrong, it just means you've experienced your first truths of parenthood: no one is perfect and nothing goes as planned.

You know you're deep into parenthood when your three year old disses you, I mean, we hope to remain «cool» in the eyes of our children at least until they are in their tween years!

My love and passion for my doula work continued to grow as I went through the transition to new parenthood myself and realized how much having support and community truly meant.

All these popular posts and more meant to support and inspire our parenthood.

The sleep deprivation of new parenthood may find you catching some z's wherever you can — even if that means sharing a bed with your new baby.

We can easily pick out «planned parenthood», «social security» and «women's rights» in Clinton's top bi-grams — all phrases that have very different meanings when their component words are paired together.

«Defunding Planned Parenthood» means taking away «Title X» funding, which would leave patients on Medicaid and other social programs aimed at the poorest unable to choose Planned Parenthood as their provider.

In addition to the TV spot, Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts is launching a digital ad campaign backing Mayer and calling for the passage of the Reproductive Health Act, a bill that is meant to codify the Roe v. Wade decision in state law.

That doesn't mean he opposed federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

«He says women should be punished for making their own reproductive health choices, supported shutting down the government if it meant defunding Planned Parenthood, and would pick Supreme Court justices who want to overturn Roe v. Wade,» McLaughlin said.

Embracing early voting means New York commits to putting power in the hands of the people,» said Robin Chappelle Golston, President & CEO of Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts.

When pressed, Moorhead explains that she means NEA backs Democratic lawmakers who support federal funding of Planned Parenthood.

While it's true that you're probably more fertile in your teenage years than you'll ever be again, do I really need to say that that doesn't mean it's the optimal time for most of us to enter parenthood?

Even though Parenthood «s parents are all making completely misguided choices, the series doesn't consider these as a means to education, through which the adults might reach that kind of self - awareness.

Instead, it becomes something much richer, exploring the toll that parenthood — primarily motherhood — can take on many people, in this frantic modern world of ours, especially those without the means to farm out labor to others.

While I'm already tired of seeing the announcements, I really loved Fargo (and I really mean LOVED — it's my favorite television series of the year), I'm still enjoying Friday Night Lights / Parenthood showrunner Jason Katims «About a Boy, and I know many people who really dig Hannibal, Bates Motel, and From Dusk till Dawn: The Series.

It used to actually mean something to see the Oscar - nominated names of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel as the screenwriters of a comedy, writers of such modern - day classic comedies as A League of Their Own, Parenthood, City Slickers, Night Shift, and Splash, but most of those films were in their past, and they have turned in mostly mediocre material since 1992.

There are myriad recommendations in the book, which Mike boils down into three major themes: First, balance our fixation on college completion with renewed attention to career and technical education; next prioritize the needs of «strivers» — the low - income students who are working hardest to make it to the middle class; finally, encourage all students to follow the «success sequence» — including delaying parenthood — as the surest means of avoiding pitfalls that push kids off the path to upward mobility.

Pretty much all of the engineers who worked on the Odyssey have children and own Odysseys, meaning every single surface from the cupholders to the seatbelt fabric is carefully selected to hold up to the spills and thrills of parenthood.

«Little Fires Everywhere delves into family relationships and what parenthood, either biological or by adoption, means.

This time off is meant to help get the new baby acquainted with its new home and help give time to adapt to the new changes of parenthood.