Sentences with phrase «than about abortion»

Not exact matches

A 2010 University of Brasilia study found that 1 in 5 Brazilian women under 40 — more than 5 million women overall, or about 22 % of Brazil's population — had had at least one abortion.

According to the 2010 study, about 42 % of women have their first abortion between the ages of 12 and 19, and about about 23 % of women with less than a fourth - grade education have had an abortion.

That's a good point, our government is racking up debt faster than locust on a wheat field, and we're arguing about gay - marriage, race and still abortion issues.

With more than a hint of exasperation, Scalia concludes: «One will search in vain the document we are supposed to be construing for text that provides the basis for the argument over these distinctions; and will find in our society's tradition regarding abortion no hint that the distinctions are constitutionally relevant, much less any indication how a constitutional argument about them ought to be resolved.

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.

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 do you think this blog is about, abortion or something??? Let's get back to the pressing topic at hand, namely, how stupid, willfully ignorant, and hateful everyone who believes differently than you is!

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.

As almost everybody recognizes, abortion is about more than abortion.

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.

Since you are of the exact same extremist stripe as Santorum, you are obviously spinning it to make you're whole group look as though they care about anything other than abortion and gays.

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.

Joss Whedon's «Unlocked» tells a more complicated story about sex and abortion than he and Planned Parenthood must have intended.

I can't help but think that some people are in denial about what really occurs during abortion because they are more concerned with loosing something personally than taking responsibility for hurting someone else like a baby.

Huckabee's 2008 Iowa victory and Santorum's surge suggest that, in spite of the dominant stereotypes about evangelicals, they value religious authenticity more than rhetoric and care about more issues than gay - marriage and abortion.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

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.

Furthermore, White Mainline Protestants and Black Protestants were considerably less likely than other denominations to hear about either religious liberty, abortion, or homosexuality.

«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.»

So... if the country is about half pro-life and half pro-choice, but» (90 %) of unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome are now aborted,» that means that the vast majority of pro-lifers would rather have an abortion than a child with Down syndrome.

In ways even more relentless and entangled than at present, arguments about what we insist are «other» questions will be emerging from and returning to the question of abortion.

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.

Unlike Francis, these bishops over-emphasize abortion, advocate bigotry under the guise of «religious liberty,» and care more about political battles than the care of souls.

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.»

Render Unto Caesar is about much more than abortion politics.

Plus, talking up religious liberty is likely less of a turnoff for moderate voters than is talk about bans on abortion and gay marriage, traditionally the top concerns of religious conservatives.

The latest Zogby poll, reported in November 2002, reveals not only that Americans in general are becoming more conservative in their views about abortion, but that young people are significantly more pro-life than their parents.

Rather than considering the possibility that such narrations reflect genuine conflict over the question of selective abortion, Rapp suggests that these women are unwitting victims of both pro-life propaganda and an atavistic ambivalence about the entry of women into the workplace.

Only about one - fifth of the fully secular and less than one - third of the nominally religious are pro-life on abortion.

Christianity is about more than pro-life or wiping out abortion.

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.

Even though millennials feel more open to things like pre-marital sex and same - sex marriage than their older siblings and parents and grandparents, they still feel conflicted about abortion.»

Pro-life groups and other critics called the abortion giant — Planned Parenthood terminates more than 300,000 pregnancies per year — a rogue organization that misuses about $ 500 million a year in government funds to underwrite its lucrative abortion business.

The point of entry came through an essay by Paul Ramsey that had made a powerful and decisive impression on me when I first began to think seriously about this matter of abortion more than forty years ago.

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?»

He talks about how the African - American community's illegitimacy rate has reached 70 percent, But he does not touch on the fact that Black women are less likely to have an abortion than White women.

The Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of the conservative advocacy group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, is among more than two dozen signatories of an open letter to Trump that presents pointed questions about the current Republican front - runner's commitment to culture - war issues including abortion, same - sex marriage and gambling.

Abortion is just about the most emotionally - sensitive issue for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, but passions were kicked into overdrive in that afternoon's debate after Assemblyman Ron Castorina, a Republican who has been in the chamber for a little more than a month, compared the procedure to «African - American genocide.»

Rather than talk about his coming fiscal plans — including how he'll push to use a projected $ 6.2 billion surplus — the governor's campaign has leaned on social wedge issues, including abortion.

Previously, abortions beyond this point were only legal to save the mother's life, but the «health» standard has raised concerns about a broader law than the initial 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.

Pro-life Americans are less likely to hear about the abortions women they know have had than are pro-choice Americans, a New York University study shows.

In addition, those who fall between the «pro-life» and «pro-choice» camps — those who believe abortion should be legal only in the cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the pregnant woman — are 12 percent less likely to have heard about another having an abortion than are those who believe abortion should be generally available.

Or, in Mississippi, where patients must be warned about the many risks of abortion (and undergo a second ultrasound) even though the operation has no bigger effect on the body than childbirth.

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.

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.

As time went by, we felt disappointed when we saw so - called Christians who choose to care more about abortions than the welfare of less fortunate but alive children, or about keeping a brain - dead woman alive while ignoring the massive health - care crisis in this country that leaves millions of poor people without any medical care, even for preventable health catastrophes.

More than 95 % of all Danish parents to be, decide to have an abortion if they find out that they are about to carry out a baby with Trisomy 21.

So much has been written about Emin — by herself and others — since she first came to prominence alongside fellow Young British Artists (YBAs) Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas more than two decades ago that her story seems to have congealed in a series of now quasi-mythical episodes: the childhood in the seaside town of Margate; the promiscuity; the abortions; the shop with Lucas; the first show with White Cube's Jay Jopling, cheekily entitled «My Major Retrospective 1963 — 1993»; the tent (Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963 — 1995); My Bed (1998); the drunkenness; the heartbreaks.

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.