Sentences with phrase «with abortion rights»

The day long maneuvering resulted in the unusual action of one of the co-leaders of the Senate offering a hostile amendment to try to force a vote on a section of the women's equality act dealing with abortion rights.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver made clear that the Women's Equality Act would be passed with the abortion rights provision included, or none of the bills would be considered at all at this time.

Cuomo, in exchange for an endorsement from the left leaning Working Families Party, promised to help reunite the two Democratic factions in order to achieve passage of several progressive issues, including public campaign financing, a women's equality act with an abortion rights provision, and a measure to give college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.

Participants noted the change in political views to the fact that they have «more family - oriented views» as parents and that they care «more about traditional values» since having children, while others noted that even though they were «more pro-choice» before having kids, they're «now more pro-life» as parents and «less inclined to agree» with abortion rights.

The Guttmacher Institute, which is affiliated with the abortion rights movement, suggested the improved use of contraceptives attributed to the falling rate and total.

Despite our shifts away from pro-life and pro-choice labels, many Americans essentially conceptualize the issue the same way, with abortion rights seen as favoring the woman and restrictions on abortion as favoring the baby.

Not exact matches

Hillsong has openly opposed same - sex relationships and abortion rights, and it used to refer members «struggling» with their sexuality to conversion therapy, according to The Daily Beast.

With hot - button right - wing populist issues like abortion and capital punishment largely off the table in Canadian politics, the long - gun registry took on disproportionate importance for that portion of the Conservative base.

Dawn Huckelbridge, director of American Bridge's Women's Rights Initiative, released the following statement in response to the US Senate's vote on a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and threaten doctors with jail time:

For single women, pick a fight over contraception with the Catholic Church and run a national convention in which the centrality of abortion rights startled even seasoned observers.

The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child policy,» replete with forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even by international human - rights bureaucracies.

These considerations are made even more relevant because of present United States commitments to international treaties on human rights, which could conceivably, at some time, put United States positive laws relating to abortion and the judges who implement them at variance with and in violation of a future international consensus on that issue.»

Debates over how far to go in restricting abortion will likely extend all the way up to the Republican presidential primary, with likely candidates already working hard for Christian Right support.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

The main problems with the religious right, Harris says, include disregard for poverty and international justice (particularly for women), obsession over the issues of abortion and gay marriage, and a mindset that generally embraces greed - centered capitalism.

Perhaps with enough people hammering the issues of abortion and gay marriage, Harris is right to direct her attention and effort to other issues of mercy and justice, but the flavor of the book seems to downplay the importance of traditional marriage, infant life, and the church's role in mercy ministry.

The ruling disagreed with the plaintiffs» argument that a woman therefore had a right to have an abortion any time and for any reason.

If a doctor performs a abortion that is (Not) sympathizing with a women's right!!!

It was a campaign to educate people about the horror of abortion and to illuminate the patent absurdity of claiming that a fetus with no rights suddenly became a baby with rights when it got its navel through the birth canal.

As it is, Gosnell got away with it because candy - asses like you cry foul - that some woman's rights are being violated, if anyone would actually REGULATE abortion clinics and make them accountable.

And, now that I've said that, I will point out that this has absolutely nothing to do with the abortion question, and is merely a de-railment of the discussion of a woman's right to decide what takes place in her body.

«The «right to abortion,» with its theme of sexual liberation,» as Hadley Arkes puts it, «has become the central peg on which the interests of the Democratic party have been arranged,» just as, «since the days of Ronald Reagan, the Republican party has become... the pro-life party in our politics.»

The association with the Religious Right has cost Grey some support among liberals, who believe that by working with the right, Grey legitimates their position on other issues, such as abortion and gay riRight has cost Grey some support among liberals, who believe that by working with the right, Grey legitimates their position on other issues, such as abortion and gay riright, Grey legitimates their position on other issues, such as abortion and gay rights.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

Even If the due - process provision calls on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.

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.

The research evidence on this question is hard to deny and right in line with the predictions of the economic models: prohibition of secret abortions cuts both teenage abortion rates and teenage pregnancy rates.

Here, I think, John Paul II's joining of abortion with the death penalty in Evangelium Vitae is exactly right: A culture that can not bring itself to rescind its license of murder in the womb is unlikely to understand the proper ways in which justice should be done.

And you would be right, but as Robby notes, «The impulse to crush the rights of conscience... to ensure conformity with what have become key tenets of the liberal faith (abortion, «sexual freedom,» «same - sex marriage») is the authoritarian impulse» at work.

The Supreme Court's decision upholding a ban on partialbirth abortions, Gonzales v. Carhart, «is a significant step in the right direction — moving away from the infamous «abortion distortion» in Supreme Court jurisprudence and bringing their interpretation of abortion law more in line with other fields of law».

By redefining the term they were attempting to backdoor their way into going after abortion rights, stem cell research, and anything having to do with little cells of «persons» living inside one big person.

If you want to reduce the number of abortions, better to try and deal with the root causes, such as poverty, and then get more contraception into the hands of the right people.

What especially struck me was that Richard, by then a controversial figure who had criticized the World Council of Churches and who had denounced the abortion right created by Roe v. Wade, loved debate and encouraged thinkers with diverse points of view to gather together.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

Yet another view accents the plight of the woman who undergoes an abortion: her right to privacy, the tragic necessity imposed by unwanted pregnancies, the sociocultural milieu with its polarized emotions.

They're angry with a president who embraces abortion rights, who restricts religious liberty and who saddles their children and grandchildren with a mountain of debt.

The Protestant Religious Right, they argue, has become a coalition partner with Catholicism in the struggle against abortion.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Consequently, the right to abortion can only be purchased at the price of abandoning natural rights and replacing it with the will to power.

«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.»

Its funny that you want to take my right as a human to defend myself with as much firepower as possible but you do nt want to «trample» the rights of women by not allowing them to have abortions which kill over a million children per year.

Just because pro-choice advocates make these arguments does not mean that courts (the same courts that are ready to overrule Roe) are likely to discover abortion rights under a statute that does not even mention abortion and that was enacted with the support of pro-life groups like the National Association of Evangelicals and the Mormon Church.

The strongest argument in favor of legalized abortion is not that a woman should have the right to choose what to do with her own body.

Sure, there may be those who oppose abortion on a primarily scientific or pragmatic basis — but with the overwhelming majority of evangelicals saying that they oppose most abortion, it ultimately becomes an issue of what we see as right and wrong.

They, along with others, founded NARAL, the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws (later changed to the National Abortion Rights Action League).

The right to abortion, along with all birth - control measures, must establish the Century of the Wanted Child.

everyday, christians pray fo this country, our leaders, troops, the economy, values and morality, and all we get back is hatred from abortion groups, gay right movements and other form of wayward beleifs with the sole purpose of reducing humans to the same level as animals.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Thomas Perez said earlier this year that abortion rights are a «non-negotiable» for Democrats, and urged the party to speak with «one voice» on the lightning rod issue.

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.

It doesn't work with the alleged right to an abortion, despite the best efforts of our Court to bring the controversy to an end.