Sentences with phrase «such draconian laws»

Since its founding in the 1950s, the International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF - WHR) has been working with local organizations to help women maintain reproductive autonomy despite such draconian laws.

«While the rest of the world condemns such draconian laws, Pakistan continues to persecute its minorities simply because of their religion.

For instance, my store is located across the bay, where such a draconian law is not in effect.

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Gays were killed for being gay — and they still were — there's no such thing as a law draconian enough to keep people from being themselves, to force that degree of conformance.

The American Foundation for Equal Rights — with its attention - getting political odd couple of conservative Republican lawyer Theodore Olson and liberal Democrat David Boies — will announce Monday it is joining a lawsuit against what the lawyers called Virginia's «draconian» laws prohibiting same - sex marriages, the recognition of such marriages performed where they are legal, and civil unions.

[23] Many such laws have gained notoriety for the draconian consequences they impose.

My view, and that of many others, is that such laws are draconian and should not exist.

Abolish the two doctor rule, and one has edged out of the law of abortion an important reminder that there is such a thing as an illegal abortion, and that an illegal abortion has draconian criminal consequences.