Sentences with phrase «support of abortion»

A former Jesuit seminarian studying for the priesthood, Brown has evolved considerably since his seminary days, and his support of abortion in opposition to the Catholic Church's defense of unborn children has earned him the plaudits of Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups.
Along with many other Irish actors like Cillian Murphy and Andrew Scott, Saoirse takes part in a campaign video for Ireland's «Together for Yes» in support of their abortion referendum on May 25.
While Lhota painted himself as a fiscal conservative, he sought distance from national Republicans on social issues by reiterating his support of abortion rights and same - sex marriage.
In 2012, Long criticized Gillibrand's support of abortion rights and her opposition to natural gas hydrofracking.
Hanna has attracted attention for his support of abortion rights, LGBT rights, the Equal Rights Amendment and environmental action to address climate change.
Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Yonkers Democrat, said during a CapTon interview that Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been outspoken in his support of abortion rights, should pressure the Senate Republicans to codify Roe v. Wade in state law by including the tenth plank of his erstwhile Women's Equality Act — the only plank the GOP - controlled Senate has refused to pass — in this year's budget.
I honestly do not know enough about about the CULT of Mormonism to address the subject of Mitt Romney's support of abortion.
Great argument in SUPPORT of abortion.
BO's support of abortion however vitiates has Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting block in the country.
It was the first time I had read of Christian support of abortion although in a different manner!
You can be orthodox and liberal unless your definition of liberal requires support of abortion, etc..
If God takes all fetuses and embryos to heaven, you have the BEST argument ever in support of abortion.
To the extent that Democrats soft - pedal their support of abortion to working - class voters, Democratic party affiliation may not shift public sentiment on abortion as much as Beauchamp suggests.
From this perspective, Roman Catholic efforts to discipline John Kerry because of his support of abortion rights look singularly odd.
It is comparable to the arrogance of the Supreme Court in the 1992 Casey decision, when it declared that not the Court but the character of the nation is being «tested» by whether or not it follows the Court's five - to - four edict in support of the abortion license.
If God actually cared that much about children, then you have made an extremely strong case in support of abortion.
BO's support of abortion / choice however vitiates his Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting bloc in the country.
BO's support of abortion / choice however vitiates has Christianity as he is the leader of the Immoral Majority who are now the largest voting bloc in the country.
You can see them, for example, in the claims and counterclaims that swirled around Notre Dame's granting President Obama an honorary degree this spring, despite his support of abortion.

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But the New York real estate tycoon, who once supported abortion access, has come under pressure from conservatives to prove he is truly one of them.
A moderate, Lamb is personally opposed to abortion, not in favor of a ban on assault rifles, and has stated that he wouldn't support Nancy Pelosi as the Democrats» House leader.
Harper told Southam News in 2001 that he leaned toward a pro-life stance, and added that he supported the Alliance's policy of dealing with moral issues such as abortion and capital punishment through citizen - initiated referendums.
Speaking to the High River Times in April 2015, Mr. Fraser was quoted as saying «I will emphasize the Pro-Life values of Albertans, making constituents and other candidates aware of the issues surrounding abortion and how they are directly relevant to provincial policy... We should de-fund abortion and fund the life affirming alternatives of crisis pregnancy support, parental support, and adoption.»
Those who speak out against abortion and family practice and at the same time support cuts in education, school lunch funding, decry reasonable control of weapons and other programs that help children can not call themselves Christians.
And such groups provided Catholic support for the president in 2009, when he faced conservative Catholic criticism over his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, and in 2010, when the bishops opposed Obama's health care law, alleging that it left the door open to taxpayer - funded abortion.
No one would support the abortion of giraffes or elephants.
I think your position is the position of most pro-choice supporters, my issue with the religious pro-life side is they do not want to support the very things that have been shown to have to largest impact on reducing abortion, s.e.x education and contraception.
I was baffled when another friend announced she would never support any organization that promotes breast cancer research, as she believed most of them also advocate abortion.
Groups such as Catholics United and Faith in Public Life got off the ground during and just after the 2004 election when a Catholic Democratic presidential nominee - Sen. John Kerry - was hard - pressed to find Catholic support in the face of condemnations from some Catholic bishops over his support for abortion rights.
No one should support the abortion of humans, either.
By respecting equally the life of the unborn child and the life of the mother, by supporting notification and consent before an abortion involving a minor, by offering ministries to reduce unintended pregnancy, by affirming (and encouraging church support of) crisis pregnancy centers, and by urging family counsel in decision - making about abortion, the additional language is decisively pro-life.
Abortion is not a sin, the bible doesn't support that and it's been legal since roe vs wade in 1973 once again the fetus can not survive outside of the mothers womb the first 21 weeks and that is the only time it's legal, after 21 weeks the fetus can survive, breath, eat, think ect.
As far as I know, he hasn't appealed to any of Jesus» teachings to support his position on embryo destruction, abortion on demand, partial birth abortion, or born - alive abortion.
It's utterly amazing that a party of greedy, selfish, materialistic, warmongering, hate - filled people could have won a majority of support amongst Christians, while ranting about taxes, guns, abortion, and gays... four things that Jesus said nothing about.
Tenderness separated from the source of tenderness thus supports a «popular piety» that goes unexamined, a piety in which liberalism in its decline establishes dogmatic rights, rights that in an extreme» as presently in the arguments for abortion in the political sphere and for «popular culture» in the academic» become absolute dogma to be accepted and not examined.
They glossed over the abortion findings, too, which will have found abortion rights support lower for millenials at the same age as the previous couple of generations.
Regarding Amy Wax's discussion of abortion and child support: As long as the law guarantees to a woman the absolute, unqualified and unconditional right, regardless of age or status, to give birth anonymously (as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947),....
Because it has everything to do with those who support abortion from the position of a «woman's right to choose» and not from a scientific point.
Don't dodge the real problem here: the violation of someone's conscience to support something strictly evil and that has nothing to do with «health care»: contraception and worst - abortion.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, was denied communion over his support for abortion rights, which some bishops said was in direct violation of the church's teachings.
There's been much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third of Republican votes in recent elections, will turn out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.
Gilgoff is an insidious media elite trying to support false prophets like Obama so the real teachings of Jesus Christ become extinct and replaced by the new Bible being written by Obama that supports blanket abortion and gay marriage.
We could argue that the link between increased abortions and decreased crime is not one of cause and effect, and they would challenge us to come up with statistics to support our position, but if we were to grant the linkage while nevertheless disputing the morality of the trade - off we would not be in disagreement with them.
Today evangelicals tend to support legislation restricting the freedom of pregnant women to have abortions.
While President Bush endorsed the 2005 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, which I supported, he also championed a pre-emptive war in Iraq that costs hundreds of thousands of lives.
Before the election, many evangelical leaders predicted that opposition to Obama over his support for abortion rights, his personal endorsement of same - sex marriage and his vision of government as a force for good would trump reservations evangelicals had about Romney's past social liberalism and his Mormon faith.
Some 70 per cent of the general population would support an abortion on the same grounds.
Those who support making abortion illegal point to the fact that a fetus has a heartbeat at six weeks, and therefore, the termination of a pregnancy is the equivalent of killing a person.
But... let me tell that the results will also surely support mine in my post that 4 out of 5 irreligious are having abortion.
Let's face it: We are unlikely to find a single party that truly represents a «culture of life,» and abortion will probably never be made illegal, so we'll have to go about it the old fashioned way, working through the diverse channels of the Kingdom to adopt and support responsible adoption, welcome single moms into our homes and churches, reach out to the lonely and disenfranchised, address the socioeconomic issues involved, and engage in some difficult conversations about the many factors that contribute to the abortion rate in this country, (especially birth control).
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