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The brothers, who admittedly «never knew there was such a thing as an abortion survivor,» were inspired to make the movie after learning about the real - life ordeal of Gianna Jessen.

I know where you are coming from, but labels such as «Democrats» and «Republicans» are USA - centric, and there may be associations (by no means always universally applicable even within the USA, however), with them to such things as abortion, ID, stem cell research, AGW, and so on.

The morning - after pill is NOT the same thing as the abortion pill (also called medication abortion or RU - 486).

Not exact matches

Mr. Lamb ran as an anti-Pelosi Democrat with moderate views on abortion, Mr. Coughlin said, «and the candidate out here is not doing any of those things; she's running a more typical Democratic campaign.»

The dioceses and the parish churches have usually been held exempt by the courts, but general Catholic institutions, precisely as they are not churches, are increasingly being required to carry insurance that covers things to which they object: abortion for their employees, for example.

This article (CNN) isn't curious as to why pro abortion protesters were chanting such things?

As much sense as god haveing a plan for every thing including Hitler, abortion, international s ex trafficking, malaria, eAs much sense as god haveing a plan for every thing including Hitler, abortion, international s ex trafficking, malaria, eas god haveing a plan for every thing including Hitler, abortion, international s ex trafficking, malaria, etc

But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti's future, and as long as I know that women are being abused and raped, as long as I know that girls are being denied life itself through selective abortion, abandonment, and abuse, as long as brave little girls in Afghanistan are being attacked with acid for the crime of going to school, and until being a Christian is synonymous with doing something about these things, you can also call me a feminist.

So, with those considerations in mind, I think it's safer to say that while legal restrictions on abortion might put a dent in the abortion rate, they won't put an end to abortion as we know it, and, most importantly, they won't do a thing to alter the number of unwanted pregnancies.

Telling people they are sinning for being LGBT or for having an abortion or using birth control or trying to impose your specific set of beliefs upon others in the public square is not a good thing and certainly doesn't show that you have a clue as to the meaning of the word respect.

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

You can not possibly believe that Liberals (which I'm happy to say I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative) are baby killers?!? I have many conservative and many liberal friends — all highly educated — and NOT ONE view abortion as a form of contraception or in any way a good thing.

Embracing an apparent relativism and anti-intellectualism, Prof. Smolin writes: «Even if we immediately restored the preeminence of natural rights / natural law discourse to our national jurisprudence and politics, abortion rights activists would still find ways of justifying the abortion right in that mode of discourse, just as prior generations justified the enslavement of African Americans through invoking God, the nature of things, and the Bible.»

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

Now, as I've matured and thought through all of the arguments, I've come to the conclusion that abortion is a necessary thing.

This is a happy and inspiring story — the only sad thing is that the Riches are unable to recount that the various battles — for example to ensure that marriage is once again established as the foundation of community life, or to ensure protection for unborn babies from abortion — had been won.

Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League stated that the general anesthesia given the mother killed the fetus so that there is no such thing as a partial - birth aAbortion and Reproductive Rights Action League stated that the general anesthesia given the mother killed the fetus so that there is no such thing as a partial - birth abortionabortion.

@Buddy R, Believing in traditional marriage and the immorality of abortion is not the same thing as having the government enforce such beliefs, via legislation, on its citizens.

And as long as we're talking about abortion, maybe we should also discuss one of the things that lead to abortion — a bad welfare system.

Not just legal but moral — they must actually consider abortion as birth control (which is what the current «right» means) a morally good thing.

If the argument against abortion were directed at the end of pregnancy instead of its beginning, people, it seems to me, would, as I did, see the whole thing more clearly.

Much as most English Catholics love Her Majesty the Queen, many of us felt just a little uneasywhen it became known that she referred to the late Cardinal Hume as «my Cardinal», and not entirely enthused by television images of Her Majesty attending Vespers at Westminster Cathedral, for all the world as if it was Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey: not because such ecumenical gestures are in themselves a bad thing, but because this one seemed all too likely to be have been a reward to the English Church for no longer making so much of a nuisance of itself, as it could have done, for instance, by criticising the supposedly Catholic - minded Tony Blair for his wholehearted support for abortion (including abortion up to term)- a stance which, north of the border, had led the late Cardinal Winning to utter a series of blistering denunciations of the Prime Minister even during NewLabour's honeymoon years.

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.

Chad So, by your «logic», the Christians who most strongly denounce such things as the gay lifestyle, abortion, pre-marital se x, and a host of other things must all be secretly, and guiltily in favor of all these things?

He has some intelligent things to say about the madnesses of multiculturalism and affirmative action, and rightly deplores the national preemption of questions such as abortion and religion in public education.

Things such as abortion and the death penalty often come down to ethics.

As disgusting as all this is, the following is by far the strangest thing Carhart said all day, and one of the most outrageous justifications for abortion that I have ever reaAs disgusting as all this is, the following is by far the strangest thing Carhart said all day, and one of the most outrageous justifications for abortion that I have ever reaas all this is, the following is by far the strangest thing Carhart said all day, and one of the most outrageous justifications for abortion that I have ever read.

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.

BRC, I do understand fully, what I think you don't understand by having that clause in their employees insurance policy, they feel that they are aiding a person to get contraceptives or an abortion which to them is the same thing as going against their beliefs.

Critics of the move to pull the pro-life partnership point out that relying on a woman's position on abortion as a marker of feminism complicates things.

That's because, for one thing, abortion and marriage are issues to be resolved by the people acting through legislatures, and Catholic Americans, as citizens, are perfectly free to convince their fellow citizens of the truth of their view of who we are as free and relational beings.

The appendix on character and conscience contains some helpful things, although I doubt whether the illustration at the end, concerning the possibility of working to make implements used in an abortuary, would have been as acceptable to the Bishops if the subject were torture rather than abortion.

C. «Jesus told Christians to love their neighbour as themselves, and abortion may be the most loving thing to do».

Don't think he necessarily has enough cachet, especially within the more progressive wings of the party (he can be hit from the left on things like abortion and race), but I could see him ending up as a running mate option for a more progressive candidate.

Since May, Cuomo's state Democratic Committee has served as the conduit for all things anti-Astorino: His fight with the Department of Housing and Urban Development over affordable housing, his conservative stance on abortion and a lawsuit filed against him stemming from the obscure battles within the Independence Party in Westchester County.

Conservatives have serious disagreement with some of McCain's past positions (particularly campagn finance, which is seen as blatantly unconstitutional), but they recognize that McCain is very strong on the most important things (the war, abortion, national sovereignty).

Things will never be as easy for women, despite contraceptives and abortion.

«We decided this was the most loving thing to do as a mom, because I never wanted her to suffer,» she says of her decision to seek an abortion.

Unfortunately, things derail fast in the third segment, which Kevin and Nick blame on the celluloid abortion known as Project X. There's a brief moment of sensibility as they also talk about The Lorax, though the show is dominated by talk about extreme fetish pornography, gay racist Klingons and Shweddy Balls.

by Walter Chaw As abortion dramedies go, this year's already seen Todd Solondz's far superior Palindromes and will soon see the abhorrent right - wing stem cell flick The Island, and for bellwethers of such things, there's still Hal Hartley's timeless Trust from fifteen years back.

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.

Beyond the wedge issues of the culture wars, such as gun control and abortion, the one thing all presidential candidates can agree on is improving the economy.

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.

Their attacks are baseless, and clearly about one thing — ending safe and legal abortion in America (the congressional hearing a couple of weeks ago helped make clear this is all part of a political agenda, as did the announcement of a special committee to investigate Planned Parenthood).