Sentences with phrase «related issues of abortion»

No treatment of our contemporary Catholic malaise can fail to mention the devastating effect on the coherence of our faith of the related issues of abortion and contraception.

Not exact matches

These considerations are made even more relevant because of present United States commitments to international treaties on human rights, which could conceivably, at some time, put United States positive laws relating to abortion and the judges who implement them at variance with and in violation of a future international consensus on that issue.»

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

The Holocaust is simply the biggest club available for liberal Catholics to use against traditional Catholic teaching — especially on issues relating to sexuality, including abortion, contraception, celibacy, and the role of women in the Church».

Similarly, although many schools do excellent work promoting knowledge and understanding of racism and poverty, it is much rarer to find even Catholic schools having Pro-life Awareness Weeks as a standard annual whole - school activity in which pupils are encouraged to understand the justice and coherence of Church teaching on abortion and related issues.

The pope said: «We can not insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods.

I took the first step 26 years ago, and it would seem that the issue of abortion kind of falls into the arguments I am hearing related to Dominic's thoughts.

«We can not insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods,» he told his Jesuit interviewer.

On the surface, the issue of executing drug dealers and forced abortions aren't related, but they both have one element in common: They happen because the government has the power of taking human life.

Many thanks to Frederica Mathewes «Green for an insightful analysis of the current cultural shortsightedness with respect to abortion and related life issues.

In it, Bush - one of the most openly religious presidents in recent history - speaks freely about such faith - related issues as how his mother's miscarriage shaped his opposition to abortion and how the Rev. Billy Graham helped him to quit drinking and led him to Jesus.

In the Fall of 2013, for instance, Pope Francis gave an interview which was interpreted — or rather, misinterpreted — as downplaying the ongoing abortion Holocaust, «We can not insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods,» he said.

Even though women as far back as 1500BCE had access to all sorts of pregnancy tests, abortion information and contraception, this generation has seen more movement in the area of childbirth related issues than any other before it.

Education - related issues are expected to take a back seat to questions about abortion rights and presidential powers during the possibly lengthy grilling of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. by the Senate Judiciary Committee that was set to begin this week.

One voice is that of Mara Hvistendahl, the Asia correspondent for the journal's news staff and author of «Unnatural Selection,» a potent and revealing book about selective abortion and related issues.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America applauds today's preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp against Nebraska's recently enacted «The Women's Health Protection Act,» which requires physicians who may perform an abortion to discuss the entire body of research literature about possible health risks related to abortion with their patients who are seeking abortions, even though much of this information may be outdated, false or misleading.

Kavanaugh ML, Jones RK and Finer LB, Perceived and insurance - related barriers to the provision of contraceptive services in U.S. abortion care settings, Women's Health Issues, 2011, 21 (Suppl.

«On the other hand, although groups seeking to pass out flyers related to political issues such as gun control or abortion rights do have free speech rights, those rights do not rise to the level of overcoming the private property rights of a shopping center owner.»