However, the sad truth is that 1) the issue is much deeper
than abortion which the church needs to address, (ie., fix the root cause) and 2) this abortion issue does not seem to resonate appropriately among the believers
@Jen» the issue is much deeper
than abortion which the church needs to address, (ie., fix the root cause)» = > agreed..
Not exact matches
The African - American
abortion rate is 41 per 1,000 women among that age group,
which is four times higher
than non-Hispanic whites
abortion rate at 10 per 1,000 and twice as high for Hispanics at 20 per 1,000.»
This still only means the real number is more likely around 19 - 20 million annual reported
abortions worldwide
than your number of 46 million
which is based on conjecture about the number of unreported
abortions each year.
What could be worse
than an unwanted or even unplanned pregnancy
which could prompt someone to go for an
abortion when all this wrangling is so easily prevented... contraception / family planniong?
The religiously unaffiliated were the only group in
which more people say they find
abortion morally acceptable rather
than wrong.
What frustrates me about the pro-choice movement is the lengths to
which advocates go to de-humanize unborn children and sanitize the
abortion procedure, reducing life to nothing more
than a cluster of cells and the implications of pregnancy to little more
than a choice.
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.
The number of
abortions had by believers and the rate at
which believers have
abortions should significantly less
than for godless, immoral non-believers!
This is much more important
than minor issues like adjusting immigration, gay marriage
which does not hurt anyone, and
abortion which is an individual decision.
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.
Third, I will treat in detail the Hartshornian stance regarding
abortion, a stance with
which I agree, both to illustrate the aforementioned connection between moderation in metaphysics and moderation in ethics as well as to combat the charge that virtue ethics, because it focuses more on the character of agents
than on their acts, is incapable of treating the really difficult issues in applied ethics.
Hartshorne's position on
abortion is also influenced by his theory of aesthetic value,
which emphasizes that a diversity of experiences balanced by an aesthetically pleasing amount of complexity and orderliness contributes to life and to God, more fully
than do less balanced experiences.
The other world is the world of prevention,
which depicts living with disability as a fate that can be worse
than death and offers a rationale for justifying the practices of selective
abortion.»
Even in that country
which has so steadfastly refused to have the
abortion debate, waves have been caused by the news that in the last two years alone the bodies of more
than 15,000 aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated by twenty - seven National Health Service trusts.
The woman is to drink it if she is impregnated by someone other
than her husband,
which will cause an
abortion.
Perry's ties to Texas» black and Hispanic communities are largely built around faith - related issues such as
abortion and gay marriage, on
which polls show minorities tend to be more conservative
than whites.
Neither prospect, he says, can undo the fact of an information society in
which work is more mental
than physical and women often make more money
than men, and neither can undo the reality of contraception and
abortion which has broken the links between sex, babies, and the necessary male.
In an odd way, it's maybe even worse news
than if the leading Democrats in the House had succeeded at including
abortion funding,
which is clearly what they wanted to do.
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.
A better strategy for combating the number of
abortions that happen in America is to address the root causes of
abortion — like poverty and lack of health care —
which I will more effectively address as president
than John McCain.»
There are two people to consider,
which makes the
abortion issue a bit more complicated
than determining whether or not a fetus is alive.
By the 1980s, the present pattern in
which abortions are performed in specialized clinics rather
than in hospitals or doctors» offices had been established.
Consider the pro-
abortion slogan «if men could get pregnant,
abortion would be a sacrament»,
which takes for granted that Catholic teaching on
abortion is simply areflection of male social dominance rather
than a point of principle.
It obviously makes more sense to serve and educate the poor
which among other things will lower the rate of unwanted pregnancies,
than to try and make
abortion illegal, for instance.
But McCartney's argument all comes down to feelings —
which is a real problem in our society — that is, infanticide is wrong and
abortion isn't becuase a mother will feel the death of a newborn more grievously
than a miscarriage of a fetus.
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?»
Victory, in a different way
than others mention here — after an
abortion 7 years earlier
which I regretted deeply immediately afterwards and still do, I had my dream - baby 2.5 years ago, just before I turned 40.
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.
On 2 March, representatives of more
than 50 countries met in Brussels at the invitation of She Decides, an initiative launched by Dutch minister Lilianne Ploumen to push back against the so - called global gag rule,
which denies US federal funding for non-governmental organisations that provide
abortions or discuss the procedure.
The results,
which controlled for several variables, revealed that Americans who hold restrictive views on
abortion are much less likely to hear of others»
abortions than are Americans who hold liberal views on
abortion.
«In the future, we hope to explore whether these changes in distance were also associated with obtaining
abortion later in pregnancy,
which carries an increased risk of complications and is more expensive
than early
abortion,» said Grossman, who is a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at UCSF.
Gillian Robespierre makes her directorial debut with Obvious Child, a sweet and funny romantic comedy in
which the pair of lovers must cope with getting an
abortion before they become something more
than a one night stand.
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy «s film is undoubtedly a difficult watch, featuring an
abortion, some graphic scenes of sex and bloody violence, and the eerie quietness in
which it's all carried out is less a comment on deafness
than a clever way of making us examine the idea of a closed system
which, «Lord of the Flies «- like, refers only to itself.
If the rest of the United States follows the example of Arizona,
which restricts
abortions past 20 weeks and considers women pregnant before they even conceive, this means compromising their bodily autonomy and constructing their lives around the will of the government rather
than personal choice.
This orchestrated effort led, predictably, to state and federal calls to end funding for all Planned Parenthood services — more
than 95 % of
which involve such things as contraception and screening for sexually transmitted diseases, rather
than abortion.
This amendment reaches much further
than the Hyde Amendment,
which has prohibited public funding of
abortion in most instances since 1977.
And per the Hyde Amendment (
which has been the law for more
than 40 years)-- federal Medicaid funds do not go toward
abortion (with limited exceptions outlined under Hyde).
Ryan said those patients could be absorbed by the nation's 1,300 - plus community health centers,
which provide the same services as Planned Parenthood — minus the
abortions — at more
than 9,000 sites nationwide.
Nothing is more important to us
than the health and safety of our patients,
which is why we are fighting back hard and calling this what it is — part of a decade - long campaign of deceiving the public, making false charges, and terrorizing women and their doctors, all in order to ban
abortion and cut women off from care at Planned Parenthood,» said Eric Ferrero, Vice President for Communications at Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
The new report —
which runs more
than 200 pages — addresses most aspects of
abortion care, including the use of the
abortion pill mifepristone.
Because
abortion - by - pill is used by women in the fifth to ninth week of pregnancy, this proposal aims to reduce
abortion early in pregnancy
which could result in more surgical
abortion which is potentially riskier
than by pill.