Sentences with phrase «protect abortion rights»

He wants public financing of campaigns and will push to legalize gay marriage and protect abortion rights.

They created the Women's Equality Party and touted efforts to protect abortion rights, help domestic violence victims and address pay inequities.

That decision came after the New York State Legislature failed to pass the Women's Equality Act, which Gov. Cuomo said would close the gap between men's and women's salaries, introduce zero - tolerance rules against sexual harassment, fight workplace discrimination due to gender and protect abortion rights.

Cuomo wants to amend the state constitution to protect abortion rights in New York if a conservative Supreme Court curtails them nationally.

It says in this morning's paper that Sen. Hillary Clinton has laid out a new approach, emphasising the importance of experience and «working within the system» but «without sacrificing important values like preserving Social Security and protecting abortion rights».

Washington (CNN)- Forty years after the Supreme Court protected abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, a new survey finds that white evangelicals remain the only major religious group that supports overturning the landmark ruling, even though most such groups find abortion morally wrong.

Paladino and his Orthodox tour guide, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, bonded late last month over their hatred of Silver, whose willingness to put bills protecting abortion rights and legalizing gay marriage have angered some in the Orthodox community.

Likely voters side with Obama over Romney on key issues, including keeping so - called Obamacare in tact, eliminating tax cuts for those earning more than $ 250,000, Medicare, and protecting abortion rights and women's access to contraception.

His proposals include extending equal protection of women, ethnic minorities and gender identity groups as well as protecting abortion rights now provided by federal law that could be struck down by the Supreme Court.

In announcing the deal, Klein said that despite the IDC's achievements, «it is also clear that core Democratic policy initiatives that the IDC championed remain unfinished,» including «equal education for all New Yorkers» through the DREAM Act, protecting abortion rights, increasing workers wages and campaign finance reform.

Not exact matches

Abortion was legalized in the United States in 1973, when the Supreme Court declared that a woman's constitutional right to privacy protected her decision to end a pregnancy.

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.

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.

«Anti-abortion activists accuse Obama of «supporting infanticide,» and the National Right to Life Committee says he's conducted a «four - year effort to cover up his full role in killing legislation to protect born - alive survivors of abortions.»

If we give X a right to do as she wants, and she wants to get an abortion, we must soon face the question of protecting her from Y, who wants to protect the rights of unborn children.

Whereas BAIPA protects the right to life of the child who survives an abortion, the Pennsylvania act protects the child who could survive an abortion, making it criminal in most cases to abort the child and, where an abortion is permissible within narrow limits, requiring doctors to treat the child as a second patient who should be brought into the world alive and unharmed if possible.

In the world we know, abortion has always been a constitutionally protected right.

That one action by Senator Kennedy paved the way for a judicial appointment that almost surely was the key to preserving a constitutional right to abortion on demand and to the overturning of U.S. laws protecting marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

In Casey v. Planned Parenthood, which enshrined the right of abortion as a specifically protected Fourteenth Amendment liberty, the majority lectured pro-lifers for continuing to contest the abortion issue.

It may protect the rights of youth to make moral decisions about abortion and contraception without the knowledge, and against the moral guidance, of their parents.

HHS positioned the shift as part of its «major actions to protect conscience rights and life,» including a new proposed rule to better enforce 25 federal protections for health care providers who decline to perform abortions and other services, as well as yesterday's announcement of a new division dedicated to fielding such complaints.

The new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the existing Office of Civil Rights (OCR) enforces existing laws designed to protect conscience rights, including new provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted suRights (OCR) enforces existing laws designed to protect conscience rights, including new provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted surights, including new provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted suicide.

By locating abortion among the parade of horribles worldwide, it ends up not only tolerated but protected as a cherished right.

The strength of my belief in the «rightness» of the choice of an abortion given the context of my life and in the necessity for women to have the legal right to make the choice that I exercised enabled me to carry out my decision; but these convictions do not protect me from suffering the consequences of my choice.

Can a constitutional amendment protecting unrestricted right to abortion be justified in view of traditional church teaching, common law and 19th - century state laws that condemn abortion?

The ideas of Jehovah's Witnesses and Catholics, of defenders of the rights of the unborn and advocates of abortion, are fully, and equally, protected.

Though Jewish law is relatively clear in not considering the fetus a bearer of moral rights, it is equally clear that save to protect the life or basic health of the mother, abortion is absolutely prohibited.

But they do protect the rights of the many, many citizens who see abortion as tragic and evil, and refuse to be implicated in supporting it.

Here's former AG Robert Abrams endorsing fellow Democrat, Sen. Eric Schneiderman, for the office he held from 1979 to 1993 and insisting that the issue of abortion rights and protecting them is, in fact, central to the job.

Fast on the heels of the devolution announcement, SNP MSP John Mason lodged a motion to recognise «the fundamental rights of babies to be protected both before and after birth», announcing to the press on the same day that he is keen to see the existing UK 24 week limit for abortion reduced when devolution occurs.

This is good news, but in addition to debating the merits and risks of the devolution of abortion law, abortion rights supporters in Scotland and beyond need to mobilise and work together to ensure that, whatever the outcome of the devolution process, women's reproductive rights in Scotland are protected.

His reelection campaign has mostly been conducted through the Women's Equality Party ballot line he's created for November, with his focus on codifying, and thereby protecting, the right to an abortion.

Early Saturday morning, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced New York health insurers will be required to cover medically necessary abortions and most forms of contraception — a move that expands and protects reproductive rights for New York women as a direct refusal of President Donald Trump's agenda.

States would enact legislation either protecting a mother's right to have an abortion or outlawing abortions.

Senators Diane Savino, Jose Peralta, Tony Avella, Jessie Hamilton, David Carlucci, Marisol Alcantara and David Valesky discuss adding the protections for a woman's right to choose abortion in the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision into state law, enacting the Dream Act, which would allow the children of undocumented immigrants to receive college aid, a law to protect the rights of transgender New Yorkers, and putting limits on the amount of money donors can give to campaigns, among other items.

Posner has written several opinions sympathetic to abortion rights, including a decision that held that late term abortion was constitutionally protected in some circumstances.

His Senate has blocked Cuomo's attempts to expand abortion rights to protect late - term abortions, as well as efforts to make sure federal protections would continue if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal nationwide.

Following a heated debate in which Staten Island Republican Assemblyman Ron Castorina Jr. referred to abortion as «African American genocide,» the Assembly passed a bill that would protect under state law the same rights a woman has to an abortion under federal law.

Backed by a large number of his conference and advocates, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie warned of «a slow and steady erosion» of reproductive rights hours before the Democrat - dominated chamber passed two measures designed to protect abortion availability and enhance access to contraception.

The governor also made statements about protecting immigrant and abortion rights, raising the age of criminal responsibility and, in his State of the State book, rolling back the state's marijuana laws.

It's one thing to have a law that protects a woman's right to an abortion.

Senators Diane Savino, Jose Peralta, Tony Avella, Jessie Hamilton, David Carlucci, Marisol Alcantara and David Valesky discuss adding the protections for a woman's right to choose abortion in the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision into state law, enacting the Dream Act - which would allow the children of undocumented immigrants to receive college aid, a law to protect the rights of transgender New Yorkers, and putting limits on the amount of money donors can give to campaigns, among other items.

Backed by a large number of his Democratic conference and advocates, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Tuesday afternoon warned of «a slow and steady erosion» of reproductive rights hours before the Democrat - dominated chamber passed two measures designed to protect abortion availability and enhance access to contraception.

In a video, Sens. Diane Savino, Jose Peralta, Tony Avella, Jesse Hamilton, David Carlucci, Marisol Alcantara and David Valesky discuss adding the protections for a woman's right to choose abortion in the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision into state law; enacting the Dream Act, which would allow the children of undocumented immigrants to receive college aid; a law to protect the rights of transgender New Yorkers; and putting limits on the amount of money that donors can give to campaigns, among other items.

Last year, Senate Republicans, who share control of that chamber, had agreed to pass all but the 10th measure, which would have further protected the right to late - term abortions.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Following a heated debate, the New York State Assembly passed Tuesday a bill that would protect under state law the same rights a woman has to an abortion under federal law.

It puts the burden on the government and the state legislatures that are attacking abortion rights to put forth evidence that these laws actually serve to protect women's health,» she says.

On taxes, abortion, health, public safety, civil rights, gun control, and regulating industry to protect the environment, Bush is a staunch right - winger.

(4), (5) and (6) of s. 251 of the Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1970, c. C - 34, relating to abortion on the ground that they contravened protected rights of the foetus.

«The ad also notes, quite accurately, that as a government lawyer 20 years ago Alito wrote that the Constitution «does not protect the right to an abortion.»