If we confer
a right on an unborn child, we must also remove a right from the woman carrying that child.
Not exact matches
It says that 100,000 people are alive today because of the country's laws
on abortion and argue that «a world which continues to pit the
rights of a woman against the
rights of her
unborn child is not advancing human
rights.»
Pro-choice advocates have trained their focus
on the
rights of the mother, and attempted to sidestep the
rights of the
unborn child by using dehumanizing terms that at least downplay the
child's personhood.
«This decision will save lives, will encourage the hundreds of thousands of men and women who will march
on Washington this week [at the Jan. 27 March for Life] for the
rights of
unborn children, along with millions more around the country who believe that foreign aid should promote life, not end it,» stated Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), in a written release.
Here, as Bishop John J. Myers of Peoria observed in his Pastoral Statement
on the Obligations of Catholics and
Rights of
Unborn Children, the voter or legislator need will only the law's protections, while accepting, though not willing, the injustices that he is powerless to remove.
J.D.S., 23, and her
unborn child spent the summer at the center of a statewide scandal over treatment of the developmentally disabled and a national debate
on fetal
rights.
In another post, this one dated August 2016, she shared an article from LifeSiteNews, a conservative, anti-choice website,
on the Irish High Court ruling «
unborn»
children are clearly
children with significant
rights, adding, «I love the Irish!»
«Pro-life» proponents focus the debate
on the
rights of the
unborn child.
Pro Life: People
on the pro-life side of the argument see a fetus as an
unborn child — a bona - fide human life — and is therefore entitled to all the
rights and protections thereof.
Although nominally Catholic himself, Brown has been a passionate supporter of abortion -
on - demand in opposition to the Catholic Church's defense of
unborn children, and has called himself «an uncompromising champion of a woman's
right to choose.»
For example, policies intended to protect pregnant women and their
unborn children, known as «fetal protection policies» (FPPs), may violate Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978, if they have the effect of creating disparate treatment based
on gender.
With respect to the issue of the father's involvement with their
unborn children, I do believe that the SCC has ruled
on that issue (though that case was long before my law school days and I don't remember the case name nor do I care to look it up
right now).
Regardless of any new science
on the topic of when life begins, the issues of access to abortion and the human
rights of
unborn children remain inherently political.