Sentences with phrase «than abortion rights»

Scharff also noted that there are a plethora of issues that matter to women other than abortion rights, which has been the main focus of Cuomo's WEP push.

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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.

If we actuall had a Congress who cared about the People they swore to serve and did not take vacations 1 week for every 2 they work (new Boehner rule when he became Speaker), actually did work and created bills that were other than ending abortion rights or killing Medicare, stopped opposing ending the fraud Bush wars that raise our debt by more than a trillion a month (and Republicans then blame Obama for the rising debt from their wars), and acted like humans we would already be well into recovery.

Governmental indifference to contraception was soon construed to imply governmental indifference to abortion, via the misconstrual of abortion as a matter of sexual privacy rather than as a matter of public justice; and the «right to abortion» soon became a defining issue in our politics.

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.

«The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights,» Congressman Smith told more than 600,000 people gathered in Washington DC for the 2014 March for Life.

Slightly more than half (54 %) of white evangelicals, according to the Pew Research Center study, favor completely overturning the 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman's right to have an abortion.

Will traditional marriage follow the path of preborn life — an issue moving from judicial activism and socially elite proclamations that a generational shift was «inevitable» and «the debate is over» to our day decades later where the youngsters are more right minded about abortion than their parents.

Somewhat dubious, I searched for the data, which reveals the pro-lifer was right on the facts but offering an unsupported interpretation: The study showed that the maternal mortality rate declined after abortion was prohibited in 1989, but that it had already been declining for more than a decade, probably as a result of rising levels of women's education.

I care about the life people like you are attempting to force in to this world, you care about what appeases your god - big difference when you really don't care or consider the child only what your imaginary friend god wants and yet your god cause abortions all the time... you care about a clump of cells, not the actual life of the child and that's much worse than me supporting the rights of a woman to have control over her body, especially if the clump of cells couldn't survive outside of the host.

«Thou shalt not interfere with a woman's right to choose abortion; indeed, thou must help to pay for abortions through tax money; more than that, thou shalt not legislate that the woman contemplating abortion must be fully informed about the potential adoptive parents who desperately want to provide a loving home for her unborn child.»

First: abortion performed due to r ape and health reasons of the mother TOTAL less than 5 % Second: The medical profession today makes evaluations balancing the rights of mom and child in problem pregnancies where abortion is not a legal option.

Thus some advocates of abortion on demand are now admitting that the fetus might very well be more than a part of the body of its mother but, nevertheless, because it is dependent on its mother for its life, she has the right to end that life if it interferes with the exercise of her own personal liberty.

Of course she says nothing about her husband's policy of overlooking human rights violations by China, including the slave labor of uncounted thousands and forced abortions for pregnant women with more than one child.

The UN bureaucrats, Scandinavian politicos, Clinton Administration «global affairs» mavens, radical environmentalists, feminists, and population controllers who planned the conference intended it to be nothing less than the Great Cairo Turkey Shoot: a political slaughter in which the enemies of «individual autonomy,» «sustainable growth,» «global carrying capacity,» «reproductive rights,» «gender equity,» abortion - on - demand, and the sexual revolution would be utterly, decisively routed.

A political operative explains, «You get the sense that for the single mother who makes $ 29,000 a year, they [the editors] care a lot more about her right to an abortion than her right to decent health care from her union.»

Leading up to the issues of birth control and abortion he declares that marriage is a natural right of man rather than a religious or civil institution.

this guy is no better than the christian fanatics that attacked abortion clinics due to their «idea of right and wrong».

I don't believe the government has the right to end lives any more than a murderer does, though, of course, I find exceptions in each of these (life of mother for abortion, a police officer defending herself, etc.).

The truth is that many Supreme Court justices appointed by pro-life presidents have voted to uphold abortion rights, so the issue is far more complex than we are often willing to admit.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

I would suggest that it's due to an awakening to the real pain that promiscuity and abortion entail; others might say that it's actually based in «rights talk,» that young people identify with aborted children (as of this January 22, anyone under the age of thirty could have been aborted) and see abortion as an attack on their siblings and classmates, rather than a matter of women's self «determination.

«Planned Parenthood now performs more than a third of all abortions in the United States and continued to be its biggest defender in the legislature and the courts,» National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) concluded in its annual report, released last week.

A problem that has vexed Catholics and others in the pro-life movement, however, is the question whether it is legitimate to support a less than perfectly protective legislative proposal restricting abortion, euthanasia, and like injustices, when the only politically realistic alternative at the moment is a proposal that is even less protective of the rights of the unborn, elderly, or handicapped.

He did not say drop the issues, he said there are more things to discuss than gays, abortion rights and contraception.

Debates about this will easily generate much more heat than light unless the energy of both sides is focused on the right question, which is: «Given that 200,000 abortions a year is far too many, how can a deliverable change in the law most effectively reduce that number?»

To most Catholics it is less acceptable to censure those who defend the right to dissent than it is to censure those who appear to reject the official position on abortion.

He is more moderate than any recent Republican nominee and is the most moderate candidate in the 2016 Republican field, according to our aggregated ideological scores.1 Pataki is, among other things, in favor of abortion rights.

Reproductive rights groups call that analysis a gross mischaracterization of what the legislation would do, and insist the measure would do nothing more than codify current abortion protections in state law.

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.

It has been more than 40 years since the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing a women's right to choose an abortion, but advocates say New York lawmakers have yet to translate the provisions of the landmark Supreme Court decision into law in the state.

Since 1985, the group has raised more than $ 400 million to support Democratic women who back abortion rights.

But rather than pointing to state issues — like abortion rights or campaign finance — that Democrats typically highlight when arguing why Republican control of the chamber is bad, the governor kept his focus on the GOP in Washington.

It's been more than 40 years since the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing a women's right to choose an abortion, but advocates say New York lawmakers have yet to translate the provisions of the landmark Supreme Court decision into law in the state.

Cuomo's more than an hour long speech included numerous other initiatives, but he might have received the most applause when he announced a women's equality act, that, among other things would codify abortion rights in state statute.

Speaking on the Brian Lehrer Show, Ms. Quinn strongly denied that the Women's Equality Party was about anything other than advancing the Women's Equality Agenda, a 10 - point plan that would codify a number of anti-discrimination statutes as well as the legal right to an abortion.

The controversy over teenagers» rights is probably greater than the more highly publicised row over abortion, she says.

«This decisive rejection of clinic shutdown laws marks the most significant abortion - related ruling from the Court in more than two decades,» said the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York City.

We wind up knowing more about the moral beliefs of Hollywood stars and politicians than we do whether the person who created the year's biggest game thinks abortion should be illegal or that the Israelis or Palestinians are right or wrong.

Some abortion rights activists held up signs telling Trump that women «deserve better than him.»

Since theological dialogue influences the Church's position at any given time, and since this position can be changed, the moral argument about abortion rages today with greater intensity than ever between those who would change the Church's attitude toward abortion, and those who believe the current attitude is the right one.

-- Obama has also failed to challenge fossilized foes of meaningful action on energy and climate change, from Senator James Inhofe to the many conservative columnists — along with some liberals — who've distorted the American discourse on climate into an either - or debate over beliefs little different than that on abortion or gun rights.

If the context behind the arguments is not included, the public just sees dispute, and can simply lump a science fight with those over abortion, gun rights, energy policy and other issues framed by ideology or values as much as (or more than) data.

Alito was a fair bit more circumspect than 5th Circuit Judge Harold DeMoss who recently wrote this article accusing the Supreme Court of usurping the rights of voters to approve or deny what he considers to be constitutional change — in his opinion, that document does not guarantee a right of privacy (nee abortion).

«He is much more an Anti-federalist where state and national authority clash, more libertarian on issues such as gun control, and much tighter on some matters as the rights of the criminally accused than I... «We, however, agree on other important issues, such as finding no constitutional barrier to bans on late term abortions and requiring spousal and parental notification of impending abortions.»

Mr. Durbin, though, said Judge Alito had told him that, rather than addressing the broader subject of abortion, he had struggled to interpret Justice O'Connor's opinions about prohibiting an «undue burden» on a women's right to have the procedure.

Hundreds of people came to Nova Southeastern University Tuesday to support abortion rights, denounce or defend greyhound racing and offer views on more than a dozen other issues, as the Florida Constitution Revision Commission held the first of several meetings to hear from the public.

From holding immigrant women hostage to deny their right to safe, legal abortion to attacking more than 62 million women's access to birth control and evidence - based programs such as the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP), Trump appointees have abused their power to advance an anti-reproductive rights agenda — and they show no sign of letting up.

One piquant example from Pro: More than a third of those who call themselves «pro-life» also say women should have the right to choose abortion.