• Ban anti-abortion limitations on abortion services. (ontheissues.org)
  • Thirty years ago, the anti-abortion movement had an image problem. (catholicvote.org)
  • They were "anti-abortion. (catholicvote.org)
  • He insisted that his fellow anti-abortion advocates stop using the phrase "anti-abortion," opting instead for the term "pro-life. (catholicvote.org)
  • Although the term pro-life had been used haphazardly by anti-abortion groups previously, Willke felt it was imperative that the term become the only label for those fighting against abortion. (catholicvote.org)
  • now anti-abortion forces were for something even more fundamental: life itself. (catholicvote.org)
  • So, the Bush administration made a political calculation to use opposition to stem-cell research and cloning as a low-risk stalking horse to advance its anti-abortion agenda and secure support among its most avid anti-abortion constituents. (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • Others who don't stoop to this have nonetheless sought to identify the anti-abortion movement with the Catholic Church. (fgfbooks.com)
  • That makes it all the more interesting that none of them profess to oppose research cloning on the anti-abortion grounds that human embryos -- created and then destroyed for their stem cells in the process -- are morally equivalent to persons. (prospect.org)
  • The Louisiana Republican's ascension puts an ally of one of the country's most influential anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion groups third in line for the presidency. (msmagazine.com)
  • Johnson's path to the speakership was circuitous, but it puts an ally of one of the country's most influential anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion groups third in line for the presidency. (msmagazine.com)
  • As anti-abortion hardliners pursue personhood rights for fetuses, establishing life from the moment of fertilization to undergird policy could have profound implications not just for bodily autonomy and the ability to access abortions, but also contraception and fertility procedures. (msmagazine.com)
  • On July 30, David Dugan and Stephen McGlynn, both vehemently anti-abortion , were approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee for the US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. (ncjw.org)
  • He questioned the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade and was involved in various organizations as an anti-abortion advocate. (ncjw.org)
  • Contact your senators and urge them to oppose these two troubling anti-abortion district court nominees. (ncjw.org)
  • Pushed the sonogram bill with pro-life advocates. (ontheissues.org)
  • Yesterday, as pro-life advocates around the United States celebrated Mother's Day, Kermit Gosnell marked the five years of life as a convicted felon. (secularprolife.org)
  • She explained why the USCCB often uses statistics from the Guttmacher Institute, the polling organization most referred to by abortion advocates, as it allows the USCCB to speak the same language statistically, while sometimes interpreting differently what's being said or what is needed. (georgiabulletin.org)
  • That was the end of the story (for abortion advocates)," McQuade said. (georgiabulletin.org)
  • Some pro-life workers face long, hard fights against companies eager to satisfy pro-choice advocates. (jonathanturley.org)
  • Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern infused the debate with the work of pro-abortion advocates both inside and outside Parliament. (lifesitenews.com)
  • More sophisticated advocates of abortion say that the question is at what point the fetus is 'fully' human. (fgfbooks.com)
  • And since then, as anti-cloning advocates began heaping pressure on the Senate to follow suit, a Fukuyama-esque cloning-as-wedge strategy seemed all pervasive. (prospect.org)
  • After Colombia's Constitutional Court ruled 5-4 last week to decriminalize abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, abortion advocates hailed. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Further, the convention's Baptist Faith & Message affirms that "children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord" and calls us to "speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. (erlc.com)
  • Protect unborn children and promote a culture of life. (ontheissues.org)
  • Abortion is ending the life of an unborn child or æFoetusÆ before it has had the chance to live. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • Also in the poll conducted in 2004, close to 51.6 percent of young adults, ages 18 to 29, called themselves pro-life, and 65 percent of them believe abortion should not be permitted once an unborn baby's heartbeat begins (usually around day 21 of the first month). (georgiabulletin.org)
  • In today's episode, Leah Savas talks about some of the forgotten history of abortion and about the efforts to protect unborn life in America that extend back over 300 years, even before the nation's founding. (crossway.org)
  • But when you actually look at who's behind these new laws that are coming up in early America, who's behind the cases of abortion that led to laws, you can really see how abortion affects individual lives and it affects individual humans-especially the unborn baby that's being aborted, but also the community around that baby. (crossway.org)
  • In Poland the parliament, in February 1993, reformed the old law of 1956 limiting abortion to particular cases, but starting from the principle of the State's obligation to protect the unborn child from conception, but returning in 1996 to positions permissive, even if the Constitutional Court later declared that law partially unconstitutional. (oneofus.eu)
  • Meanwhile, in the United States, the Supreme Court has gradually shown that it wants to give some weight to the life of the unborn child, without however disavowing the 1973 decision. (oneofus.eu)
  • The fact that you value innocent life so little, and there is no innocence greater than an unborn fetus, has nothing to do with slavery or women's rights. (berkeley.edu)
  • He said, "The Eucharist unites and strengthens us in our efforts to secure justice for the unborn, and to create a culture wherein every human life is cherished, nurtured and protected from the moment of conception until natural death. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • Across Colombia, around half a million people marched on Sunday to defend the lives of the unborn, rejecting the recent. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • We believe life begins at conception and that abortion denies precious human lives both personhood and protection. (erlc.com)
  • Cordileone at the time said that human life begins at conception and abortion "deeply wounds the woman and destroys the foundation of a just society," adding that those of the Catholic faith "must be a voice for the voiceless and the powerless" and that "there is no one more defenseless than a child in the womb. (theepochtimes.com)
  • The Roman Catholic Church teaches that life begins at the moment of conception and therefore Morally Unacceptable. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • The Catholic Church proclaims the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception to the occurrence of natural death. (georgiabulletin.org)
  • Moderator Tom Brokaw promptly told her that the Catholic Church holds that "life begins at conception. (catholicism.org)
  • Mary' s life surely began at her conception in the womb of Saint Ann, not at a later point when existence outside the womb began. (catholicism.org)
  • And the Catholic Church indirectly, though positively, thereby rendered its view that conception is when life begins. (catholicism.org)
  • While the preponderant majority of medical authorities supports the belief that life begins at conception, there' s no need for a Catholic to rely only on them. (catholicism.org)
  • Life begins at the very instant of conception with the infant growing for nine months (or fewer) before birth and eventual separation from its mother. (catholicism.org)
  • A Catholic has the infallible statement of a Pope and, even more, a statement from heaven itself that life begins at conception. (catholicism.org)
  • That Catholic prelates do not make the heaven-confirmed point that life begins at conception and do not remind pro-abortionists that they have separated themselves from the Church is a deficiency long needing correction. (catholicism.org)
  • Bush believes that human life and human rights begin at conception even if conception occurs in a Petri dish. (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • The president and his operatives know that their core base of supporters fervently opposes all forms of abortion and agrees that embryos are people from the moment of conception. (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • Every human life, like every canine and bovine life, begins at conception. (fgfbooks.com)
  • One philosopher, Michael Tooley, admits that life begins at conception and that it is nonsense to say what humans conceive is not human life. (fgfbooks.com)
  • Sadly, President Biden is the perfect example of the religiously and ethically incoherent straddle: claiming to believe that human life begins at conception and personally opposing abortion, while doing everything within his power to promote and institutionalize abortion not only in the U.S.A. but also around the world. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • A federal appellate court has dismissed a second lawsuit filed by a member of the Satanic Temple against Missouri's informed consent abortion law, rejecting the argument that the law established Catholic religious belief by stating that life begins at conception. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • State law requires abortion providers to distribute a booklet from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services which includes the statement: "The life of each human being begins at conception. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • It violates the establishment clause because it adopts the Catholic dogma that life begins at conception," he said. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The state has no business telling us that life begins at conception. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Dennis Hudecki, a philosophy professor at Brescia University College in London, Ontario, told Courthouse News Service that there are "big arguments about when life begins," and some can argue for the belief that life begins from conception without a religious basis. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • I think the state's view that life begins at conception is on a rational basis and while there is rational disagreement, just because there's rational disagreement doesn't mean each side isn't being rational. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • He said the Communion was "being weaponized for political ends" and wondered why bishops were focusing on support for abortion and euthanasia as opposed to racism. (theepochtimes.com)
  • I am the life beat reporter at WORLD, so sometimes I will also write about euthanasia, or things just related to death. (crossway.org)
  • Although initially the pro-life label normally referred solely to abortion, it soon took another issue under its banner: euthanasia. (catholicvote.org)
  • Including euthanasia under the pro-life umbrella seemed like a given, since it also involved the direct killing of an innocent human being. (catholicvote.org)
  • Pro-life people were those opposed to abortion and euthanasia. (catholicvote.org)
  • Yet, he is obsessed with euthanasia, is detached from real life and can't understand how anyone would consider outlawing his methods and his suicide machine, which he considered to be humane. (msmagazine.com)
  • This was a landmark case of Passive Euthanasia which by definition is the withholding of food, water, oxygen and unwanted medical treatment such as artificial life sustaining technology, and allowing the patient to die a natural death. (abortionfacts.com)
  • Ask yourself the questions, "Is there a connection between euthanasia and the abortion nightmare? (abortionfacts.com)
  • At its Annual General Meeting and Policy Convention, held June 14-16 in Hamilton, the Ontario wing of the Federal Liberal Party, using a two-part vote, gave high priority to two pro-life resolutions - one on abortion and one on euthanasia. (theinterim.com)
  • The Liberal Party of Canada opposes euthanasia by direct action or by passive neglect. (theinterim.com)
  • A lot of people think that abortion is ok in certain circumstances e.g when the women was raped or on the grounds of incest, but these types of circumstances only account for a very small percent of all abortions which are carried out. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • Since abortions actually performed under these circumstances are "extremely rare," the Zogby study suggests that a majority of Americans oppose "approximately 96 percent of all abortions. (georgiabulletin.org)
  • People recognized that opposing legalized child-killing didn't mean you had to support every food stamp program coming out of Washington. (catholicvote.org)
  • Abortion pills accounted for over half of all abortions in 2020, and are four times more dangerous than surgical abortions. (erlc.com)
  • Approximately half of all abortions are performed with this method. (medscape.com)
  • McElroy and Cordileone became the faces of opposing views in the Catholic Church on abortion in 2021. (theepochtimes.com)
  • The proactive referendum on abortion, which will take place on September 26 in the Serenissima Republic of San Marino, is part of this panorama, as established by the Regency Decree of July 13, 2021 n. 129. (oneofus.eu)
  • In a 2021 hearing on an abortion ban in Texas, Johnson testified that "when a woman is pregnant, science tells us that the new life she carries is a completely separate and full new human being from the moment of fertilization. (msmagazine.com)
  • Although Anglicans too believe in the sanctity of life, Anglicans may argue that under exceptional circumstances abortion may be necessary and therefore justifiable. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • From Genesis through Revelation, God emphasized the sanctity of human life, while simultaneously making clear His hot displeasure with those who disregard it. (apologeticspress.org)
  • I've been out on the front lines of the 'culture war' defending religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and biblical values. (msmagazine.com)
  • The ethic then changed from "sanctity of human life" to "quality of human life" where human worth is no longer spiritual but physical. (abortionfacts.com)
  • 3] Certain religions have objections to autopsy (eg, Islam, Judaism) in that bodily intrusion violates the sanctity of keeping the human body complete, despite those religious doctrines not strictly forbidding it. (medscape.com)
  • Of course Republicans are opposed to Planned Parenthood, such logic. (berkeley.edu)
  • Look who started planned parenthood and what her objective was when it was started. (berkeley.edu)
  • The decision cited the generally pro-abortion rights Supreme Court decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey , which itself said that informed consent laws represent "the legitimate purpose of reducing the risk that a woman may elect an abortion, only to discover later, with devastating psychological consequences, that her decision was not fully informed. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The troubling situation began in 2014 when the California Department of Managed Health Care reclassified abortion as a 'basic health service' under the Affordable Care Act and ordered all insurance plans in the state to begin covering elective abortions immediately. (savecalifornia.com)
  • Indeed, one wonders what more the Empire State could do to encourage women to have abortions, having already affirmed a state "fundamental right to abortion," used Medicaid funding to pay for elective abortions, turned a blind eye to the need for even basic health and safety regulations for abortion businesses, and lit up the Empire State Building pink to "celebrate" New York's commitment to abortion on demand. (ncfamily.org)
  • Favors restrictions of judicial bypass for minor's abortion. (ontheissues.org)
  • Abortions unnecessary except for woman's life or health. (ontheissues.org)
  • Or the woman's life is at risk if the pregnancy continues without time limit. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • The question is formulated very broadly: "Do you want the woman to be allowed to voluntarily terminate the pregnancy within the twelfth week of gestation, and also subsequently if there is danger to the woman's life or if there are anomalies and malformations of the fetus that pose a serious risk to the physical or psychological health of the woman? (oneofus.eu)
  • Voted YES on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions. (ontheissues.org)
  • New York's Reproductive Health Act (S. Bill 240/A. 21), signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo on January 22, 2019-the anniversary of the Roe decision-allows non-doctors to perform abortions throughout gestation, repeals New York's "Born Alive" law, and goes so far as to strip out the fetal homicide provisions of New York law, denying protections and justice for even "wanted" babies in the womb. (ncfamily.org)
  • Recently, some pro-life centers and churches have been attacked . (jonathanturley.org)
  • Even some crisis pregnancy centers, offering support to pregnant women and alternatives to abortion, have been denounced as a threat to women. (jonathanturley.org)
  • But in spite of all this, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the number of abortions in New York has been dropping like a rock, as it has across the whole U.S., from 128,036 in 2007 to 93,096 in 2015. (ncfamily.org)
  • Prohibit transporting minors across state lines for abortion. (ontheissues.org)
  • Prohibit federal funding for abortion. (ontheissues.org)
  • A further (and more important) consequence is that a nation which eschews the establishment of religion has an actual obligation not to prohibit abortion. (fgfbooks.com)
  • It just gets older, but its essence doesn't change," said Hudecki, whose expertise includes abortion ethics. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Oppose limiting abortions to under 20 weeks of pregnancy. (ontheissues.org)
  • Abortion of a first pregnancy interrupts the growth and changes which enable the breast to produce milk, leaving the breast at a heightened risk of cancer. (ewtn.com)
  • This report discusses the twenty-two published studies which document a link between a first-pregnancy abortion and an increased risk of breast cancer, and concludes that women need to know about this risk before they choose abortion. (ewtn.com)
  • Abortion is now legal if two doctors agree on either of the following: * That continuing the pregnancy means that there is a risk to the woman's health. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • Abortion is the termination of pregnancy before birth, by either natural (miscarriage) or artificial means, (an operation where abortion is induced). (markedbyteachers.com)
  • McQuade explained, "They say 'up to three months of pregnancy,' which forms in a person's mind that Roe is only about legal abortions to three months," when, in fact, the Roe decision made abortion legal throughout a woman's pregnancy. (georgiabulletin.org)
  • Having compassion for not only the woman who is going through a difficult pregnancy, but also the baby who is facing a life or death situation, even though we can't see that baby necessarily, unless through an ultrasound screen. (crossway.org)
  • Our century has seen a vast reform of the laws on abortion, inspired by a greater or lesser permissiveness and even creating wide spaces in which the interruption of pregnancy becomes not only extraneous to criminal law, but the content of a real subjective right of women, indeed of a privileged right, particularly guaranteed and assisted by the State. (oneofus.eu)
  • Think of the very recent decision by which the Supreme Court of that country rejected the request to block the Texas law comes into effect prohibiting abortion beyond the sixth week of pregnancy for any reason. (oneofus.eu)
  • Not to be outdone by Governor Cuomo, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (a physician) appeared on a Washington D.C. radio show on January 30th to advocate for Virginia's HB 2491, which, like New York's Reproductive Health Act, would have allowed abortion throughout the entirety of pregnancy-and even afterward. (ncfamily.org)
  • Colombia's Constitutional Court has ruled 5-4 to decriminalize abortion up to six months, or 24 weeks of pregnancy. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives. (medscape.com)
  • We affirm that the fundamental purposes of government are to protect human beings from harm, punish those who do evil, uphold civil liberties, and to commend those who do good. (erlc.com)
  • AI, even in a highly advanced state, should never be delegated the governing authority that has been granted by an all-sovereign God to human beings alone. (erlc.com)
  • Of course, with some differences between discipline and discipline (for example the role of the doctor, self-determination of the woman, terms and indications, systems to avoid abortion), but with the common characteristic of making the suppression of human beings legitimate and therefore "just" on the way to birth, with the endorsement of medicine and social consensus. (oneofus.eu)
  • A babe in the womb is the most innocent of all human beings. (catholicism.org)
  • It is slavery, but they believe in the ownership of human beings, just not their kind. (berkeley.edu)
  • Eucharistic adoration followed by the celebration of Holy Mass is like a school that forms and equips us to place our humanity at the service of the least of these, the tiniest of human beings and the most vulnerable of all. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • If we as Christians do not actively oppose and change this death ethic which has perverted our land, our society can then justify any atrocity, just as the Nazis did, directed against certain classes of human beings considered disposable. (abortionfacts.com)
  • And yet, for all these qualities that must be achieved in order to gain status as a human being, they miss an important point: Human beings the only kinds of being that can develop these attributes, and do so merely with time. (blogspot.com)
  • One has to be a human being first in order to develop, from within, the characteristics that human beings inherently possess. (blogspot.com)
  • it means they simply belong to the category of younger human beings. (blogspot.com)
  • Given that many arguments in favor of abortion attribute a potential for personhood(or, more loosely, humanity itself), I think this little cub can help us think through how to assess the moral status of a being before birth, as well as afterwards. (blogspot.com)
  • Similarly, after the court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization , it seems, you must be anti-pro-life and stop others from voicing their views. (jonathanturley.org)
  • Obviously, the biggest news related to this issue today is the Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, this really famous legal case that kind of set a tone, set a trajectory, for the abortion conversation in America for many years. (crossway.org)
  • I see firsthand that the pro-life movement is winning the battle for the U.S. Supreme Court, with two new pro-life Justices on the bench and the Court's breaking-news announcement that this term, the Justices will hear and decide on a pair of critical petitions from Louisiana. (ncfamily.org)
  • Abortion was a liability for Republican candidates in the 2022 midterms, as disapproval of the Supreme Court's June 2022 ruling in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization helped dampen Democratic losses, given historically poor midterms performances by the party that holds the presidency. (msmagazine.com)
  • The president of Colombia, Iván Duque, rejected Tuesday the Constitutional Court's decision to depenalize abortion up to 24 weeks of. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Arguably, her own description raises the possibility that her beliefs about abortion may be political, not religious," the court's decision said. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The phrase was used three times in the question that eventually asked participants if they favored or opposed "this part of the Supreme Court decision. (georgiabulletin.org)
  • In the West, the first reform appeared in the United Kingdom (Abortion Act, 1967) and soon rebounded across the Atlantic, where in the United States of America it came to fruition through the Federal Supreme Court ruling of January 22, 1973 which forced states to liberalize abortion in the name of the right to privacy. (oneofus.eu)
  • Because of the pandemic and security issues arising from the rioting at the Capitol three weeks earlier, March for Life organizers moved from traditional live event plans Jan. 29 to feature an all-virtual march, except for a small contingent of pro-life leaders making speeches on the National Mall, followed by a walk up to the U.S. Supreme Court. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • There is legitimate hope that the U.S. Supreme Court could modify or even reverse the decisions that we commemorate each year," a reference to the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions in 1973 that legalized abortion throughout the country. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • It provided the model abortion ban enacted by Mississippi that led to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade . (msmagazine.com)
  • As the Supreme Court considers a case that directly challenges Roe v. Wade's 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, legal. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • [ 1 ] Accurate statistics have been kept since the enactment of the 1973 US Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortions. (medscape.com)
  • Since the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, hundreds of laws, federal and state, have been proposed or passed, making this the most actively litigated and highly publicized area in the field of medicine. (medscape.com)
  • According to the Michigan Daily, the petition - signed by hundreds of incoming, current and past students - declared that "while we support the rights of freedom of speech and religion, an anti-choice speaker as a representative of the University of Michigan undermines the University's position on abortion and supports the non-universal, theology-rooted platform to restrict abortion access, an essential part of medical care. (jonathanturley.org)
  • There was a real effort to get this off the issue of where life begins," notes Daniel Perry, executive director of the Alliance for Aging Research, which supports research cloning. (prospect.org)
  • He supports biased counseling laws and restricting abortion access for young people. (ncjw.org)
  • Abortion Introduction: This piece of coursework is about the issue of abortion, the Catholic Churchs view point to abortion, the pro and anti abortionists and the implications it has on modern day society and individuals. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • But you and your coauthor on this new book, Marvin Olasky, you note in your book that the legal history of this issue of abortion in America is really only like 10% of an iceberg that you see from a boat-the 10% that's sticking up above the surface. (crossway.org)
  • A pro-abortion resolution which was tied to a call for support for women seeking alternatives to abortion was voted twelfth in priority. (theinterim.com)
  • Illegal abortions are unsafe and account for 13% of all maternal mortality and serious complications. (medscape.com)
  • This means we oppose killing not only fetuses, but also embryos and zygotes. (secularprolife.org)
  • Using the techniques involved in creating Dolly the sheep, it is possible to create cloned human embryos for use as a source of embryonic stem cells. (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • The stem cells suits human needs, does not cause harm and can be obtained from both adult and fetal does not conflict with religious beliefs, it has tissues, umbilical cord and early embryos. (who.int)
  • Unicellular for those cells that are derived from human organisms are primed to replicate (clone) pre-embryos, which seem to have a high themselves by nature. (who.int)
  • Death from abortion is almost unknown in the United States or in other countries where abortion is legally available. (medscape.com)
  • The Catholic churchs view is that all human life is sacred and that includes the baby in the womb. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • Abortion Part A Abortion is the premature expulsion of the foetus from the womb. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • Also Tertullian, one the earliest Fathers of the Catholic Church, wrote at length about the horror of destroying life in the womb in the year 197. (catholicism.org)
  • But Andrew Cuomo did his father one better by extending the elder Gov. Cuomo's uncharitable disdain for human life in the womb to pro-life humans outside of it, declaring that "extreme conservatives who are right-to-life… have no place in the state of New York. (ncfamily.org)
  • What these Christians ignore is how frequently the Scriptures speak about the wonder, awe and beauty of life in the womb. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • For more than four decades, across multiple Administrations and Congresses led by both Democrats and Republicans, language has been included in the Labor-Health and Human Services Appropriations bill that restricts federal taxpayer funding for abortion under most circumstances. (house.gov)
  • Access safe, legal abortion without restrictions. (ontheissues.org)
  • The bill was modified to reflect some objections but MPs could not ignore clear public support for legal abortion. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • This bill would enshrine access to the dangerous abortion pill in federal law and would promote abortion tourism nationwide. (erlc.com)
  • Speaker Pelosi, vice presidential nominee Biden, Massachusetts senators Kennedy and Kerry, and many others in public and private life repeatedly claim to be Catholic and yet tolerate and even promote abortion. (catholicism.org)
  • Miscarriages and abortions have been repeatedly linked to a significant and substantial increase in the risk of breast cancer. (ewtn.com)
  • Using 1996 data, this translates into 3.89 million live births, 1.37 million abortions, and 0.98 million miscarriages. (medscape.com)
  • oppose embryonic stem-cell research. (ontheissues.org)
  • One of the most popular arguments heard on the street level, and articulated more formally within the academy, is that the early embryonic being or fetal being is merely a "potential" human being or person. (blogspot.com)
  • The archbishop who recently made waves by announcing that he was barring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) from Communion due to her outspoken support of abortion was passed over in Pope Francis's latest cardinal assignments. (theepochtimes.com)
  • The pope chose as a cardinal Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, who has previously said that bishops shouldn't forbid politicians who support abortion from taking Communion despite Catholic teachings being clear that abortion is a moral evil. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Because Communion is only meant for true believers, or people who follow the teachings, people who support abortion shouldn't be allowed to take it, Cordileone said. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Some have tried, in Boss's words, to 'put the theory on life support' by inventing a just-so story that the core was eroded away. (creation.com)
  • Both administrations opposed abortion, with support from some conservative political and religious groups, based on the view that human life begins when the ovum is fertilized and that the resulting embryo has legal rights to protection similar to those of an infant, child, or adult. (the-scientist.com)
  • In other words: We support a diversity of viewpoints so long as we don't have to hear any opposing views. (jonathanturley.org)
  • For instance, there was a boy in the UK that recently was pulled off of life support. (crossway.org)
  • I support women's rights in all aspects except ending a life because it's inconvenient or otherwise unwanted. (berkeley.edu)
  • Continuing to make a valiant effort to distinguish himself from Gore, Bradley stood with Marcy Bloom, executive director of the Aradia Women's Health Center on Monday morning, where she and others decried Gore's past flirtation with opposition to abortion and heralded Bradley's consistent support for abortion rights. (salon.com)
  • and educating lawmakers and the good citizens of each state in support of life-saving legislation. (ncfamily.org)
  • And indeed, not only do increasing numbers of Americans support humane abortion limitations and common-sense health and safety regulations, we also have saved millions of infants' lives over the past 25 years as the U.S. abortion rate-the number of pregnancies that end in abortion-has dropped to where it was in 1972, the year before Roe. (ncfamily.org)
  • The pro-therapeutic cloning side also saw some stunning conversions to its position -- Orrin Hatch, Strom Thurmond, Nancy Reagan, Gerald Ford -- and was bolstered by support from Nobel laureate scientists and celebrities such as Michael J. Fox and Christopher Reeve (who represent an army of patients suffering from serious and often life-threatening degenerative diseases). (prospect.org)
  • Catholics must work to promote a culture of life and work to support mothers, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore said. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Not even the Catholic Church has made opposition to abortion an article of faith or 'dogma. (fgfbooks.com)
  • The opposition to assisted suicide in Michigan was led by the same people (Right to Life of Michigan) who oppose abortion. (msmagazine.com)
  • Currently, limited protection is offered to pre-born children, giving specific circumstances when an abortion can be obtained. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The ancient Greeks allowed abortion under certain circumstances. (medscape.com)
  • Abortion was legalised in Britain in 1967 (The Abortion Act). (markedbyteachers.com)
  • On 27th October 1967 the Abortion Act became law in England, Scotland and Wales and took effect six months later on 27th April 1968. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • A new vision of family and sexual relationships, a new way of thinking about the female condition, the changes in the productive system and the spread of a materialistic culture in the various versions of utilitarianism, hedonism and libertarianism have led to the legalization of abortion , that is, the killing of the conceived before his birth. (oneofus.eu)
  • The ERLC strongly opposes the Ensuring Access to Abortion Act of 2022. (erlc.com)
  • These provisions reflect a time-tested balance of strongly held and differing perspectives on abortion in this country. (house.gov)
  • As such, we will strongly oppose any appropriations bill that seeks to weaken pro-life protections or eliminates Hyde policies. (house.gov)
  • It comes as no surprise that a newspaper owned by Mort Zuckerman, an ardent Zionist, would be anti-Palestinian and that it would strongly oppose efforts to break the Israeli naval blockade by sending a flotilla of ships to Gaza. (wideasleepinamerica.com)
  • a truth to which Christians in every century have testified and are called to bear witness in every age and in every sphere of life. (erlc.com)
  • Although all Christians believe that life is a sacred gift from God, a disagreement exists between the churches over whether abortion is morally acceptable. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • He offered a refutation of the notion held by some Christians that the Bible is "silent on the morality of abortion. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • Early Christians had varying practices regarding abortion. (medscape.com)
  • The Abortion Legislation Act 2019 passed its first reading last Thursday in a landslide parliamentary vote of 94 to 23. (lifesitenews.com)
  • In addition to legalizing abortion on demand up to birth with very few restrictions, the proposed legislation would remove abortion from the Crimes Act. (lifesitenews.com)
  • Submissions must be received by the newly formed Abortion Legislation Committee by Thursday, September 19. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The Abortion Legislation Committee is headed by the Honourable Ruth Dyson. (lifesitenews.com)
  • ADF is the legal force behind dozens of the most restrictive abortion laws and pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the country. (msmagazine.com)
  • Johnson, the former head of the conservative Republican Study Committee, argued before Dobbs that abortion access was a states rights issue-but he has also supported federal legislation setting gestational limits, cosponsoring a bill to establish a 20-week ban. (msmagazine.com)
  • The U.S. Senate is expected to vote next week on a piece of legislation that one pro-life group is calling. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Although we are very disappointed about the continued inclusion of this discriminatory rider in appropriations legislation, NCJW thanks Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for filing the amendment and for their tireless efforts to permanently end abortion coverage bans. (ncjw.org)
  • Since the 1973 decision, approximately 1.3-1.4 million abortions have been performed annually in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • Require women seeking abortions to view a sonogram. (ontheissues.org)
  • Rated Funding abortion avoids discrimination against poor women. (ontheissues.org)
  • women considering abortion need to know about this risk *before* they choose. (ewtn.com)
  • in 3 women have an abortion. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • 650 women a year have late abortions. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • McQuade also explained the results of a question in a 2006 Guttmacher Institute poll that sought to find the reasons why most women choose to have an abortion. (georgiabulletin.org)
  • This fear-mongering is adapted to the abortion issue when claims are made that women blithely abort "imperfect" fetuses. (msmagazine.com)
  • The fraying and stains on the 46-year-old rags of the abortionon- demand law imposed nationwide in Roe v. Wade are becoming obvious to everyone, as the pro-life movement partners with women to offer them real hope and life-affirming solutions we can all live with. (ncfamily.org)
  • Opposing this is the United Nations which says access to contraception is a universal human right that could significantly improve the lives of women and children. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • 2] Yet the Vatican wants to deny them this human right and prevent women from deciding how many children they can provide with a good start. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • Do social inequalities in Peruvian society legitimize policy of government that violates women and indigenous reproductive and human rights? (bvsalud.org)
  • Catholics are notoriously among those who try to excite horror against abortion by showing pictures of mutilated fetuses. (fgfbooks.com)
  • McElroy challenged that view, saying that bishops and others who were moving to exclude pro-abortion politicians such as President Joe Biden from Communion were wrong. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Afterward, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which had been weighing communicating clearly that bishops should deny Communion to abortion supporters, issued a document whose only apparent reference to such a matter said that "lay people who exercise some form of public authority have a special responsibility to embody Church teaching in their service of the common good. (theepochtimes.com)
  • There has been an interesting series of polls … indicating that the American public tends to be pro-life," said Deirdre McQuade, spokesperson for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. (georgiabulletin.org)
  • WASHINGTON (CNS) - The head of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities called President Joe Biden's stance on abortion "religiously and ethically incoherent" during his homily at the opening Mass of the annual National Prayer Vigil for Life Jan. 28. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • Archbishop Lori, chairman-elect of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, observed that, "All these extraordinary efforts, in the midst of this pandemic, testify to the importance of anchoring our pro-life mission in the Eucharist. (trentonmonitor.com)
  • This year marks the 10th anniversary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' "9 Days for Life", as the. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The letter, led by the Republican Leader of the Committee, Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), comes as the Biden Administration prepares the discretionary budget request for FY22 and the Committee starts the annual appropriations process. (house.gov)
  • Could Biden bypass state laws by placing abortion clinics on federal land? (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • But Cordileone on May 20 announced that he was barring Pelosi from receiving Communion, citing how she's become even more pro-abortion over the years while using her Catholic faith as justification for her stance. (theepochtimes.com)
  • If you followed the Catholic religion you would be breaking one of the ten commandments, your depriving the right of human life. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • Repeating her frequently stated stand, she insisted that she is "an ardent, practicing Catholic" and then claimed that no one knows when life begins. (catholicism.org)
  • Even though most Catholic leaders don't use the following argument, a hugely important definition of when life begins came from heaven itself. (catholicism.org)
  • CLASSIC] - I am sometimes asked, when in conversation it transpires that I oppose abortion, whether I am a Catholic. (fgfbooks.com)
  • Because the Catholic Church has taken an official position on abortion, many find it convenient to reduce the issue to religion. (fgfbooks.com)
  • In the Catholic and Southern Baptist leaders team up to press for a "conscience rights" bill, which could help make abortion even harder to obtain in the US. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • By 1869, the Catholic Church declared abortion a sin punishable by excommunication. (medscape.com)
  • This means that the amendment will not receive a vote on the House floor and that Hyde - which denies abortion coverage to those enrolled in Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) - will remain in the funding package. (ncjw.org)
  • Before the newly elected U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson was in public office, the Louisiana Republican's restrictive stances on gender identity, abortion and sexuality were honed at the conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), where he served as a senior spokesperson and attorney. (msmagazine.com)
  • In most media reports, opponents of abortion were depicted as angry men opposing fundamental women's rights. (catholicvote.org)
  • The cases relate to the Bayou State's common-sense law protecting women's health by ensuring a swift transfer from an abortion facility to an emergency room when abortions go wrong. (ncfamily.org)
  • To accept that we cannot demand that every country ensure freedom for gay, lesbian or trans people, and uphold women's equal rights to make their own decisions about their lives. (lu.se)
  • Just yesterday I was able to finish this short book by pro-life activist and apologists Jonathon Van Maren and Blaise Alleyne. (blogspot.com)
  • In recent years, the Bush administration also effectively opposed fetal tissue research on related grounds, a position reversed early in Bill Clinton's presidency. (the-scientist.com)
  • Accept this, and it follows that those who have no religion can't pretend to know the question's answer, and hence can have no grounds for opposing abortion. (fgfbooks.com)
  • WELLINGTON, New Zealand, August 13, 2019 ( LifeSiteNews ) - A bill that would legalize abortion on demand up to birth in New Zealand passed its first reading last week. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The problem is that "[c]hurches across California have been battling [California's] onerous abortion mandate for years with no relief. (savecalifornia.com)
  • He is a contributing editor at io9 , the Chairman of the Board at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and is the program director for the Rights of Non-Human Persons program. (sentientdevelopments.com)
  • Chris Kaczor gives a good illustration of this concept in his book The Ethics of Abortion in which he points out that a cat that is unable to purr is still a cat, though that cat has not completely lived up to his full potential as a member of a particular species. (blogspot.com)
  • But while neuroethics frameworks have a longer track record in public sector research such as the U.S. BRAIN Initiative, much less is known about how businesses-and especially start-ups-address ethics in tech development. (bvsalud.org)
  • Drawing on an empirical case study on direct-to-consumer (DTC) neurotechnology start-ups, we find that actors engage in careful boundary-work to anticipate and address public critique of their technologies, which allows them to delineate a manageable scope of their ethics integration. (bvsalud.org)
  • By drawing such lines of demarcation, we suggest that start-ups make their visions of ethical neurotechnology in society more acceptable, plausible and desirable, favoring their innovations while at the same time assigning discrete responsibilities for ethics. (bvsalud.org)
  • Our empirical tracing of the construction of 'ethical realities' in and by start-ups offers new inroads for ethics research and governance in tech industries beyond neurotechnology. (bvsalud.org)
  • Abortion is the direct killing of innocent life, so using the term "pro-life" denoted that being against abortion was being for life. (catholicvote.org)
  • Her beliefs forbid her to comply with a law that "serves no medical purpose or purports to protect the interests of her human tissue. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Participants also noted that human morbidity and mortality rates in the United States may be different from those observed in rural Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • The risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion, and overall morbidity associated with childbirth exceeds that with abortion. (medscape.com)
  • Gosnell, the notorious Philadelphia abortionist, was convicted on May 13, 2013 of three counts of murder, one count of manslaughter, and 211 counts of violating Pennsylvania's abortion waiting period law. (secularprolife.org)
  • 2013 - Israel's chief rabbis equate abortion with murder. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • We encourage the Senate to reject this harmful bill that would handcuff state legislatures and put thousands of preborn lives and vulnerable mothers at risk. (erlc.com)
  • The Florida senate on Thursday passed HB 5, a bill introduced by State Rep. Erin Grall, which would ban abortions. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • One hundred and eighty one members of the House of Representatives co-signed a letter praising the pro-life leadership of Senate. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Half of the world's population lives in a country where fertility is below replacement level (UNITED NATIONS, 2017). (bvsalud.org)
  • Broadly speaking, pro-lifers believe human life is morally relevant when the human organism begins: as a zygote. (secularprolife.org)
  • Should California be defunded for blatantly violating abortion conscience laws? (savecalifornia.com)
  • When it comes to abortion, we can often be so focused on that legal side, on the laws that have been passed or been repealed, the court decisions that have an impact on all this, and rightly so. (crossway.org)
  • When we talk about the laws and the politics of abortion, it's easy to speak in generalities. (crossway.org)
  • What do abortion laws look like in Latin America? (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Before the 19th century, most US states had no specific abortion laws. (medscape.com)
  • Ironically, until four years ago, Collier was " a pro-choice atheist " who admitted that she had "great animosity towards those who held either pro-life views or deeply held religious commitments. (jonathanturley.org)
  • Reproductive and sexual rights are very controversial issues in human rights because they relate to sexual prejudices, social stigma and structural inequalities deeply rooted in societies. (bvsalud.org)
  • While the research community shows willingness to engage with both ambivalent and supportive audiences about potentially disruptive technological advances, there is less enthusiasm for engaging with groups who hold deeply opposing views to such advances. (bvsalud.org)
  • This bill would also functionally provide a federal protection for the emerging trend known as abortion tourism. (erlc.com)
  • As a congressman and senator, Gore opposed the use of federal funding to provide abortion services. (salon.com)
  • And North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein added North Carolina to a federal lawsuit with twenty other states, challenging the Trump Administration's "Protect Life Rule," designed to keep federal family planning funds out of the hands of abortion businesses. (ncfamily.org)
  • NCJW opposes David Dugan and Stephen McGlynn for lifetime seats on the federal bench. (ncjw.org)