Sentences with phrase «prohibition of abortion»

Forese also indicated that he supports the prohibition of abortion except when it is necessary to prevent the death of the mother.

«We confirm that the prohibition of abortion does not affect, in any way, the availability of optimal care to pregnant women.»

There was very little support for the complete prohibition of abortion.

How, for instance, does a judge know whether a society «needs» freedom ofabortion, some degree of regulation or a prohibition of abortion altogether?

And since we know categorically that prohibition of abortion is totally, completely ineffective, there is no supportable reason to place that tyranny on American women.

The one thing these reproductive absolutists will not acknowledge is that we know beyond all shadow of doubt that prohibition of abortion does not work.

The two «no compromise» factions in the abortion debate are, on the one hand, the 20 percent who favor the present unlimited abortion license and, on the other, those who would effect a national prohibition of all abortions, which is also about 20 percent of the population.

Does the Supreme Court's ruling striking down state prohibitions of abortion in the 1973 cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton belong on the plus side of the Court's ledger with Brown v. Board or on the minus side with Dred Scott?

Not exact matches

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.

We've had blue laws imposing Christian beliefs on businesses, Prohibition, laws criminalizing sodomy, laws banning birth control, abortions, gay marriages, interracial marriages and more simply because arrogant Christians thought they needed to impose their «personal knowledge» of what God wants on our entire society.

In a report on the issue, it said: «While «prayer» is outlined within the prohibited activities, it is critical to note that only prayer in relation to protesting in an act of approval or disapproval in 34 respect of abortion services is included within this prohibition.

The GOP in their PLATFORM demand that WOMEN HAVE THEIR R * PI STS» BABIES (as a result of no exception for ra pe in their abortion prohibition).

Basically, what has happened with CST is comparable to what has happened with marriage and family: We spend a lot of time talking about contraception and abortion and bioethical dilemmas, and unfortunately we must do so, given the gravity of these evils and the obsessions of our day — but as a result we can fail to see, or at least fail to communicate to others, the profound truth of the sacrament of matrimony, which is the foundation of all the rules and prohibitions.

As a result of that commitment, he is prepared to move «in a train of moderate steps» until policy reaches that point where an absolute prohibition on all abortions, beginning at the moment of conception, is in place.

Justice Ginsburg (joined by Justice Stevens) noted that «amidst all the emotional uproar caused by an abortion case,» it should be remembered that the prohibition of partial «birth abortion would «not save any fetus from destruction,» and anyway that D&E abortion «is no less distressing or susceptible to gruesome description.»

The most significant legal issue was whether Nebraska's prohibition of partial «birth abortion was unconstitutional because it failed to provide a health exception.

With this ammunition, Justice Blackmun was able, in his Roe v. Wade decision, to explain away as a meaningless historical accident the medical profession's traditional prohibition against doctors performing abortions: «This it seems to us is a satisfactory explanation of the Hippocratic Oath's apparent rigidity.

The bills introduced included such measures as bans on government funding of abortion, restrictions on late - term abortions, ultrasound requirements, and prohibitions on abortions based on sex, race, or genetic abnormality.

Prohibitions on abortion by sovereign states are not only compatible with the requirements of international human rights instruments but are in fact the most probable interpretation of those requirements.

He told his interrogators what he thought of Prohibition (against, though he didn't drink), the death penalty (against, at least some of the time), and abortion (for, up to a certain point in the pregnancy).

Despite a prohibition on the use of Title X funds for abortion services that has been in place since the program's inception, antiabortion policymakers have targeted the program as indirectly supporting abortion; they have repeatedly sought to restrict Title X funds from going to entities associated with abortion, often specifically Planned Parenthood.

Under the initial version of the ACA repeal bill, money left over from tax credits (after paying for premiums) could be invested in an HSA and there was no explicit prohibition against using money in HSAs to pay for an abortion.

In his Center for Arizona Policy survey, your opponent John Allen says he's in favor of prohibitions against abortion.

Since its enactment in 1970, the Title X statute had included a prohibition on the use of Title X funds «in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.»