Not exact matches
Abortion has long been a divisive issue in American politics, even though the
procedure was legalized in a Supreme Court ruling more
than 40 years ago.
A new effort under President Donald Trump to protect the rights of health workers who object to
abortions and other
procedures will cost the health care system more
than $ 300 million to implement.
Now, women who need a late - term
abortion because the fetus is so abnormal it can not survive more
than a few hours, and will suffer a painful death if born alive, have to undergo a much more invasive, dangerous
procedure.
What frustrates me about the pro-choice movement is the lengths to which advocates go to de-humanize unborn children and sanitize the
abortion procedure, reducing life to nothing more
than a cluster of cells and the implications of pregnancy to little more
than a choice.
Even the Democratic Party in 2012 removed the «rare» qualifier from their platform, moved by activists who want to erase any sense that
abortion should be minimized any more
than another medical
procedure.
Justice John Paul Stevens (joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) stated: «Although much ink is spilled today describing the gruesome nature of late «term
abortion procedures, that rhetoric does not provide me a reason to believe that the
procedure Nebraska here claims it seeks to ban is more brutal, more gruesome, or less respectful of «potential life»
than the equally gruesome
procedure [D&E] Nebraska claims it still allows.»
That all the persons subjected to the
abortion procedure are female, and that casual sex leads to more rather
than less of all of that.
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.»
On 2 March, representatives of more
than 50 countries met in Brussels at the invitation of She Decides, an initiative launched by Dutch minister Lilianne Ploumen to push back against the so - called global gag rule, which denies US federal funding for non-governmental organisations that provide
abortions or discuss the
procedure.
Mr. Durbin, though, said Judge Alito had told him that, rather
than addressing the broader subject of
abortion, he had struggled to interpret Justice O'Connor's opinions about prohibiting an «undue burden» on a women's right to have the
procedure.
There is more
than one kind of in - clinic
abortion procedure.
Non-surgical
abortion is an early - term
procedure that has been safely used in the United States for more
than a decade.