• Before the Supreme Court 1973 decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, anti-abortion views predominated and found expression in state laws which prohibited or restricted abortions in a variety of ways. (wikipedia.org)
  • The anti-abortion movement became politically active and dedicated to the reversal of the Roe v. Wade decision, which struck down most state laws restricting abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. (wikipedia.org)
  • The movement has campaigned to reverse Roe v. Wade and to promote legislative changes or constitutional amendments, such as the Human Life Amendment, that prohibit or at least broadly restrict abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • In June 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, ending federal abortion rights and allowing individual states to regulate their own abortion laws. (wikipedia.org)
  • Roe v. Wade was considered a major setback by anti-abortion campaigners. (wikipedia.org)
  • and (2) to outline some of the important reasons why Roe v. Wade must be preserved as the law of the land. (counterpunch.org)
  • Roe v. Wade, adopted in 1973, was a break-through law ensuring that women could terminate their pregnancy at any point up to "viability", about 24 weeks. (counterpunch.org)
  • The U. S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) plans to take up the Roe v. Wade case during its new term in the form of the Mississippi case, which has passed a law similar to that of Texas, except establishing a 15-week gestation time instead of 6-week. (counterpunch.org)
  • They are already on red alert because conservative state legislatures have passed far-reaching antiabortion laws , and many believe that Roe vs. Wade, the landmark abortion rights ruling, is in jeopardy. (latimes.com)
  • Advocates are focusing on a proposed ban they say would strip women of access to a legitimate medical treatment and, at the same time, directly threaten abortion rights established by Roe v. Wade . (lifeadvocate.org)
  • Founded in New York City in 1973, shortly after Roe v. Wade was imposed on the nation, Catholics for Choice (originally known as Catholics for a Free Choice) struggled in the seventies and stayed alive only through support from other pro-abortion organizations and a Unitarian-Universalist group in New York City. (catholicvote.org)
  • The women's liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s reached its peak when women won the right to choose an abortion and the Supreme Court legalized the procedure in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case. (socialistalternative.org)
  • When abortions were outlawed before Roe v. Wade , it did not stop them from happening. (socialistalternative.org)
  • The first organized action was initiated by U.S. Catholic bishops who recommended in 1973 that the U.S. Constitution should be amended to ban abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • When Catholics for Choice projected pro-abortion messages onto the walls of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception while Catholics were praying inside in January 2022, it was the most sacrilegious stunt they had pulled since their founder stood on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral and declared herself "Her Holiness Pope Patricia the First" in 1973. (catholicvote.org)
  • It is estimated that approximately one million women had illegal abortions annually before the procedure was legalized in 1973, which directly resulted in the deaths of some 5,000 women every year. (socialistalternative.org)
  • [ 1 ] Accurate statistics have been kept since the enactment of the 1973 US Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortions. (medscape.com)
  • Since the 1973 decision, approximately 1.3-1.4 million abortions have been performed annually in the United States. (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)
  • In Harris v. McRae, anti-abortion advocates won a 1980 challenge to the Hyde Amendment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Now, Biden has provoked a powerful element of the Democratic coalition - women's groups and abortion rights advocates - at a particularly perilous time. (latimes.com)
  • Now, with a new attempt in Congress to ban the procedure, pro-abortion advocates are going before Congress to try to repair credibility tattered after Fitzsimmons admitted lying about how often and under what circumstances a D&X is performed. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • Leading abortion rights advocates went before a joint meeting of two House and Senate committees trying to divert attention away from numbers and Ron Fitzsimmons. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • The Partial Birth Abortion Ban was enacted in 2003, during the presidency of George W. Bush, permitting abortion only as a last resort to save the mother's life, or if the fetus was already dead. (counterpunch.org)
  • N ew York, NY -- A prominent supporter of abortion rights says he "lied through my teeth" when he said that so-called partial-birth abortions -- called D&X -- were performed rarely, and only to save the mother's life or to abort malformed fetuses. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • The second part of this series explores what Texas residencies are teaching instead of elective abortion, and why some doctors say that has to change. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • The statement added that he would be "open to repeal" if women lost access to abortion in the future - presumably because of a Supreme Court decision or other change in law. (latimes.com)
  • The homes of Supreme Court justices are the newest site for protests over abortion access in the United States. (truthorfiction.com)
  • An issue that illuminates this imperative in sharp relief is residential picketing - protests against the actions or decisions of public officials at their homes, such as the recent noisy abortion rights demonstrations at the Montgomery County dwellings of Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. (truthorfiction.com)
  • Some anti-abortion activists allow for some permissible abortions, including therapeutic abortions, in exceptional circumstances such as incest, rape, severe fetal defects, or when the woman's health is at risk. (wikipedia.org)
  • By the '60s, an underground network of activists, doctors, ministers, lawyers, and welfare rights groups had already been risking arrest and skirting the law to direct pregnant women to competent physicians who would perform abortions. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Anti-euthanasia activists must be intimately familiar with the terms relating to euthanasia. (hli.org)
  • Activists on both sides of the abortion issue say Brevard's decline is due to a "professional cadre" of abortion protesters. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • Texas Democrats and activists are warning that Governor Greg Abbott's executive order on immigration bears dangerous resemblances to Arizona's hardline SB-1070 law, which resulted. (thedailycable.com)
  • The recently enacted Texas law banning abortion after 6 weeks gestation, even in cases of rape and incest, represents the latest battle in the long war on women being waged by conservative Republicans in this country against women's reproductive rights. (counterpunch.org)
  • Amid confusion about Biden's stance on the issue, his campaign issued a statement confirming that he still backs the so-called Hyde Amendment, a longstanding measure that prohibits the use of Medicaid or other federal funds for abortions, with exceptions for rape, incest and life-threatening conditions. (latimes.com)
  • In October 2021, the Biden administration reversed Trump's contentious policy that barred organizations that provide abortion referrals from receiving federal family planning money. (counterpunch.org)
  • 2 At the state level, Texas closed most of its abortion clinics and ended Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. (counterpunch.org)
  • That's become much harder in Texas, which has lost more than 20 abortion clinics in the past few years. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • But the closure of abortion clinics in Texas following the passage of the strict abortion regulation law HB2 - more than 20 since 2013 - has made that training increasingly difficult. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers (NCAP) in Alexandria, Virginia and former director of National Abortion Federation (NAF), a coalition of 200 independently owned clinics, made the admission in an article to be published March 3 in Medical News , an American Medical Association publication. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • 8 She had spent the years prior setting up illegal abortion clinics in countries like Mexico. (catholicvote.org)
  • As our nation's judicial landscape changes, blue states are moving pre-emptively to ensure that abortion is readily available to all women, under all circumstances. (americamagazine.org)
  • and MDG 6 focuses on combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases that underlie and threaten the nation's achievement of the other three goals. (who.int)
  • In the late 1960s, in response to nationwide abortion-rights efforts, a number of organizations were formed to mobilize opinion against the legalization of abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fitzsimmons' article is not the first to suggest that abortion rights supporters had understated the frequency of the procedure. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • Abortion rights supporters had been persistently lobbying the government to legalize abortion under certain conditions but made very little progress until the mass women's liberation movement exploded onto the streets in the late '60s and early '70s. (socialistalternative.org)
  • In Leslie Reagan's 1997 book, When Abortion Was a Crime , a women recounts a story of a college classmate who had an illegal abortion: "She was too frightened to tell anyone what she had done. (socialistalternative.org)
  • The Florida Department of Children and Families reported 81,692 abortions statewide in 1997. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • The movement is also supported by secular organizations (such as Secular Pro-Life) and non-mainstream anti-abortion feminists. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the same time this study finds certain differences in methods used to protest and influence, as well as in what specific changes in law and politics feminists propagate. (lu.se)
  • A report in The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey, last September sparked controversy when it reported that doctors at just one clinic in suburban Englewood estimated using the controversial procedure in about half of the 3,000 abortions they perform each year on women in their 20th to 24th weeks of pregnancy. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • In 1982, a former abortion clinic operator named Frances Kissling, who had washed out of a convent as a teenager, was named the organization's president. (catholicvote.org)
  • In a 2002 interview, she said the best way to start an illegal abortion clinic was to find a desperate doctor who was in some kind of trouble and to bribe the authorities to look the other way. (catholicvote.org)
  • Brigham operated an unlicensed clinic, American Women's Services, in Albany and in Nanuet, New York. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • The protesters routinely photograph, approach and write letters to women who seek abortions at the county's one abortion clinic, the Aware Woman Center for Choice in Melbourne. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • The anti-abortion movement includes a variety of organizations, with no single centralized decision-making body. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2017, soon after entering office, former President Trump issued a global gag rule prohibiting international organizations from receiving U. S. family planning funding if they provide, counsel, refer or lobby for abortion services. (counterpunch.org)
  • Kennedy flourished as a lecturer, cable TV host-"The Flo Kennedy Show" ran from 1978 to 1995-and director of consumer rights organizations before her health declined. (thehumanist.com)
  • The ancient Greeks allowed abortion under certain circumstances. (medscape.com)
  • [7] Roffee and Waling (2016) documented that LGBT people experience microaggressions, bullying and anti-social behaviors from other people within the LGBT community. (wikipedia.org)
  • That same year, anti-abortion politicians gained control of the Republican Party's platform committee, adding anti-abortion planks to the Republican position, and calling for a Human Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, banning abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • At a time where the fundamental freedoms enshrined in Roe are under attack, the 2020 Democratic field has coalesced around the Party's core values -- support for abortion rights," said Ilyse Hogue, president of the abortion rights group NARAL. (latimes.com)
  • She even challenged the Roman Catholic Church's campaign against abortion, insisting the church had violated the Constitution's separation of church and state. (thehumanist.com)
  • Kate Michelman, head of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), says that "whether the number of women whose doctors recommend this procedure is five, five hundred, or five thousand a year, each and every one of these numbers represents the real life of an individual woman. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • Those viewing tonight's HBO premiere of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" are part of a global event to fund shelters, anti-rape campaigns and women's centers, including a communications center for the new Ministry of Women's Affairs in Afghanistan. (womensenews.org)
  • GENEVA, May 31, 2002 (LSN.ca) - A year ago, LifeSite reported that Switzerland's socialist-controlled parliament passed a law legalizing abortion on demand in the first three months of pregnancy. (lifesitenews.com)
  • States could restrict or prohibit abortion after that time, but exceptions must be made to preserve "the life or health of the woman. (counterpunch.org)
  • Texas women managing to get to neighboring states for the procedure have flooded abortion facilities in neighboring states. (counterpunch.org)
  • Although residents can opt out of abortion training for religious or moral reasons, Jane felt a professional obligation to learn the procedure. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • Fitzsimmons, who had insisted the procedure was rare in a November 1995 interview on the ABC show Nightline , now says abortion opponents are right when they say the procedure, D&X, is common. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • Congress passed a law to ban the procedure, which opponents say borders on infanticide, but President Clinton vetoed the law and Congress failed to override the veto. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • Abortion opponents contend the pro-choice movement is guilty of "a pattern of dissemblance and deception" about a procedure they say verges on murder. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • Even so, around 12,000 abortions are done each year because many doctors are willing to approve the procedure. (lifesitenews.com)
  • In Jewish law the only form of blasphemy which is punishable by death is blaspheming the name of the Lord . (flyingsnail.com)
  • By 1869, the Catholic Church declared abortion a sin punishable by excommunication. (medscape.com)
  • The first major U.S. organization in the modern anti-abortion movement, the National Right to Life Committee, was formed out of the United States Catholic Conference in 1967. (wikipedia.org)
  • The records show that Catholics for Choice has a history of mistreating its female employees and is completely dependent on a handful of wealthy anti-Catholic funders. (catholicvote.org)
  • In 1984, Catholics for Choice gained new notoriety when it took out a full-page ad in the New York Times in support of abortion in response to bishops' criticism of vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro, a self-identified Catholic. (catholicvote.org)
  • The group expanded internationally in the 1990s, founding a Latin American arm called Catholics for the Right to Decide with the mission of encouraging abortions of Hispanic babies in heavily-Catholic countries like Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. (catholicvote.org)
  • In 1995, one of Catholics for Choice's founding members, Marjorie Reiley Maguire, wrote a letter to the editor of the National Catholic Reporter saying Catholics for Choice had become "an anti-woman organization" whose sole agenda was "the promotion of abortion, the defense of every abortion decision as a good, moral choice, and the related agenda of persuading society to cast off any moral constraints about sexual behavior. (catholicvote.org)
  • The most recent opinion poll indicates that a majority of Swiss people - 63 per cent - support "updating" the 1942 law that has limited access to abortion in predominantly Catholic cantons. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The first major anti-abortion success since Roe's case came in 1976 with the passing of the Hyde Amendment prohibiting the use of certain federal funds for abortions. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Hyde amendment, passed in 1977, banned federal funding from covering abortion services, and has been a budget rider on federal spending bills since then. (counterpunch.org)
  • Joe Biden's campaign said he misheard when he told a voter recently that he agreed the antiabortion Hyde Amendment must be repealed. (latimes.com)
  • Repealing the Hyde amendment is critical so that low-income women in particular can have access to reproductive care they need and deserve," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, the 2020 candidate who has put the most emphasis on women's rights. (latimes.com)
  • Women made the right to abortion a central demand of their movement because they understood that women could never be equal with men without control over their reproductive lives. (socialistalternative.org)
  • More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives. (medscape.com)
  • The United States anti-abortion movement (also called the pro-life movement or right-to-life movement) contains elements opposing induced abortion on both moral and religious grounds and supports its legal prohibition or restriction. (wikipedia.org)
  • They engaged in strikes, grain and anti-enclosure riots, and machine breaking-struggles underpinned by craft and community solidarity and justified as defense of a moral economy against emerging free-market practices. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The Seven Laws of Noah , which Judaism sees as applicable to all people, prohibit blasphemy. (flyingsnail.com)
  • Worldwide, some 20-30 million legal abortions are performed annually, with another 10-20 million abortions performed illegally (see The Alan Guttmacher Institute ). (medscape.com)
  • A May 2021 Pew Research Center poll found that 59 percent of U. S. adults think that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 39 percent think it should be illegal in all or most cases. (counterpunch.org)
  • Women who made the agonizing decision to have an illegal abortion were desperate, often because they simply could not afford to raise a child. (socialistalternative.org)
  • But in the dark and dangerous world of illegal abortions, women simply had to take whatever was available. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Approximately a third of the million women having illegal abortions each year had to be hospitalized for complications. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Illegal abortions are unsafe and account for 13% of all maternal mortality and serious complications. (medscape.com)
  • A lbany, NY -- The June 20, 1998 edition of the Times Union (Albany, New York) reported that Steven Brigham, the abortionist convicted this spring of Medicaid fraud, was sentenced to 120 days in jail, five years probation, and to pay restitution for defrauding insurance companies. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • The recent passage of the Texas law banning abortion as early as 6 weeks, or just 14 days after a missed period when most women don't even know they are pregnant, has precipitated a crisis for many women in that state and neighboring states in helping them to gain access to urgently needed abortion services. (counterpunch.org)
  • minnesota attorney general keith ellison, who is vowed to protect abortion access in a state, will join us live. (archive.org)
  • [ 3 ] Access to abortion was particularly limited in rural communities and in the South and Midwest. (medscape.com)
  • And as the week dragged on, and reports of death threats and vandalism stretched from Arizona to Kansas to upstate New York, the F.B.I. and the local police had to get into the act to protect members of Congress and their families. (typepad.com)
  • On the other side of the abortion debate in the United States is the abortion-rights movement (also called the pro-choice movement), which argues that pregnant women should have the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • Women can choose if they want an abortion or not, but you as their doctor need to be able to provide them with all the choices available. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • The right to abortion is especially necessary in a society that ultimately expects women to bear the financial and emotional responsibilities of raising children, but pays women much lower wages than men. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Scared and ashamed, women often self-induced abortions with coat hangers or other sharp objects or sought out a "back alley" abortionist. (socialistalternative.org)
  • The criminalization of abortion disproportionately forced lower-income women and women of color into these terrifying, dangerous situations. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Rich women, though, could afford safe abortions by paying a private doctor exorbitant fees or traveling to a country where abortion was legal. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Rada Boric, director of the Center for Women War Victims in Zagreb, Croatia, and now "almost a sister" to Ensler, remembers that the playwright, on assignment in a refugee camp for The New York Times, ended up staying for weeks, "making coffee and crying. (womensenews.org)
  • Indeed, many positive trends in the health of women the world over, from North to South, East to West, have been reversed over the past decade, while reproductive health and rights remain threatened, particularly for poorer women, migrant women and women of colour. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • The term pro-life was adopted instead of anti-abortion to highlight their proponents' belief that abortion is the taking of a human life, rather than an issue concerning the restriction of women's reproductive rights, as the pro-choice movement would say. (wikipedia.org)
  • 5 It was the first of many checks from anti-women's rights groups, including the Sunnen Foundation and the Playboy Foundation. (catholicvote.org)
  • The case and the overturning of most anti-abortion laws spurred the growth of a largely religious-based anti-abortion political and social movement, even as Americans were becoming, in the 1970s and 1980s, increasingly pro-choice. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Vatican instructed the religious signatories to retract their support of the statement or be subject to dismissal and prosecution under canon law. (catholicvote.org)
  • The film looks at the cabal of religious fanatics, who in 1980, planned to blow up the sacred Muslim shrine of the Dome of the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, as well as the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin in 1995. (truthout.org)
  • [5] As of 2012, anti-blasphemy laws existed in 32 countries, while 87 nations had hate speech laws that covered defamation of religion and public expression of hate against a religious group. (flyingsnail.com)
  • The flurry over a lecture given by Archbishop Rowan Williams in February 2008, "Civil and Religious Law in England," was the immediate occasion of my renewed interest, since the lecture reflected some aspects of David Nicholls' thought. (typepad.com)
  • Using 1996 data, this translates into 3.89 million live births, 1.37 million abortions, and 0.98 million miscarriages. (medscape.com)
  • After her mother died from cancer in 1942, Kennedy moved with her sister Grayce to New York City and enrolled in the pre-law program at Columbia University in 1944, graduating with honors four years later. (thehumanist.com)
  • Former Vice President Joe Biden broke with his party Wednesday and restated his opposition to using federal money to pay for most abortions, drawing fire from rivals in the 2020 presidential race and sparking the first big intraparty fight of his campaign. (latimes.com)
  • The federal arrest of an anti-abortion activist has sparked a firestorm of criticism and accusations of a double standard in the enforcement of reproductive. (thedailycable.com)
  • That's how a CEO makes decisions,' said Rep. Chris Collins, a New York Republican. (politico.com)
  • Citizens Concerned for Human Life, a Capital-District Pro-Life organization worked behind the scenes to get the New York State Health Department to investigate Brigham's operation. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • Reed highlights the State's 1912 anti-corruption law, but she neglects other benchmarks: in 1972 the state passed a constitution that guarantees "a clean and healthful environment. (brightlightsfilm.com)
  • They are being targeted by the pro-abortion and birth control lobby as never before, not least at school . (blogspot.com)
  • Obstetrician-gynecologists are supposed to learn how to perform abortions as part of their four-year residency. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • And his 40-year record in the Senate includes many votes and positions, on abortion and other issues, that are at odds with liberal orthodoxy today. (latimes.com)
  • Prosecutors had sought a thirty-year sentence, but Stewart was sentenced to two-and-a-half years after the judge rejected the prosecutors' argument that she threatened national security and ruled there was no evidence her actions caused any harm. (notmytribe.com)
  • Share knowledge gained from our first year s experiences with others in the St. Lawrence and Metropolitan New York Districts. (roghiemstra.com)
  • According to Chinese state media, a 47-year-old man stormed into a law firm in China's Wuhan city last week and shot dead a lawyer. (thedailycable.com)
  • Two months into lockdown, 29-year-old Ella left the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that she was raised in near New York, started wearing trouser pants for. (thedailycable.com)
  • Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures performed in the United States each year. (medscape.com)
  • Theoretically, all of them have had the opportunity during the four years of residency to learn about "induced abortion" - so called to distinguish it from a miscarriage. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • Based on estimated lifetime risk, each American woman is expected to have 3.2 pregnancies, of which 2 will be a live birth, 0.7 will be an induced abortion, and 0.5 will be a miscarriage. (medscape.com)
  • In some states, like Texas, an ultrasound is also mandated by state law. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • The result was the play "Necessary Targets," which was staged in 1995 as a benefit performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright "sobbing in the front aisle," says Boric. (womensenews.org)
  • [1] This law, understood to criminalize consensual homosexual conduct, allows the state to invade the lives and intimacies of millions of adult Indians. (hrw.org)
  • As noted in Part I, given the already dubious efficacy of these novel vaccines, the emerging adverse side effects weigh more heavily in the balance when assessing their utility, and thus the purported "grave necessity" justifying their use despite their "remote" origins in abortion. (lifesitenews.com)
  • The Cats Claw Club of California (CCC of C), a sub-group of the Wobblies, threatened and bombed a number of wealthy and prominent people from 19161918. (issuu.com)
  • Dr. Bernard Rosenfeld, 73, has not been able to find a successor for his abortion practice in Houston, Texas. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • She passed the New York Bar in 1952 and opened her own practice in 1954. (thehumanist.com)
  • Texas has been enforcing its new 2021 law, which also empowers anyone-friends, neighbors, even family members- to report instances of a woman having an abortion and be rewarded by a $10,000 finding fee-a kind of unconstitutional vigilante law. (counterpunch.org)
  • 1 Former Vice President Pence vowed his intention to end taxpayer funding of abortion and abortion providers. (counterpunch.org)
  • Because of the political pressures facing abortion providers, I agreed not to reveal the doctors' full names or the clinic's location. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • To be sure, such tactics have a longer history: One of the ugliest manifestations was the antiabortion movement's widespread deployment of pickets at the homes of abortion providers. (truthorfiction.com)
  • AGI contacts abortion providers directly and provides abortion data every 4-5 years. (medscape.com)
  • The bigotry she faced in the courts, however, caused her to doubt whether practicing law could affect social change, a concern she outlined in her 1976 autobiography Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times . (thehumanist.com)
  • Research on scientific controversies can be classified into four approaches: positivist, group politics, constructivist and social structural (Martin and Richards, 1995). (bmartin.cc)
  • If Malaysia's government believed, as India's apparently did, that the colonial-era law mirrored deep social prejudices, then the case was a perfect tool to discredit him. (hrw.org)
  • The Church has played its part in this disempowering of youth by firing young people up for narrow causes, such as the crusade against abortion, while discouraging any critical engagement with social injustice such as was urged by Gaudium et Spes, Populorum Progressio and the much-maligned movements of Liberation Theology. (typepad.com)
  • Spitalfields silk weavers defended their threatened jobs by citing their rights to "property in labour" and insisted on male workers' need for a "family wage" to support their wives and children. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Is the all-things-pink breast cancer impresario bowing to Right-wing anti-abortion pressure in pulling their financial support for low-income breast exams provided by Planned Parenthood? (notmytribe.com)
  • But what of the 20% of the population of Israel who are also Palestinian and who actually lived under martial law until 1966? (truthout.org)
  • There was no telling for sure whether an abortionist was a licensed practitioner that would use safe anesthesia and sterile instruments, or whether he or she knew how to perform an abortion safely. (socialistalternative.org)
  • most evangelical Christian groups did not see abortion as a clear-cut or priority issue at the time. (wikipedia.org)
  • You understand how it is: a little here, a little there, and last time I was through New York he didn't even bother to answer my note suggesting we put together one of our low-rent urban hootenannies. (commonwealmagazine.org)
  • Medical professors in Texas fear political repercussions for providing - or even just discussing - abortion training. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • In the heat of political battle, some seem to have fixated on abortion almost as though it were a good in itself. (americamagazine.org)
  • I think what he's done [the admission] is a public service," says Stanley Renshon, who teaches political psychology at City University of New York. (lifeadvocate.org)
  • Political goals include changing laws and policies to gain new rights, benefits, and protections from harm. (wikipedia.org)
  • The companies failed to use the anti-theft technology for years, leading to a spike in thefts that was driven by a viral trend showing just how easy it was to swipe their cars, according to the lawsuit filed in Cook County. (thetruthaboutguns.com)
  • They had the option of choosing a candidate who campaigned on restoring some semblance of law and order in a city ravaged by four years under a feckless , failed mayor , and another candidate who thought that what the the City of Big Shoulders needs most is to lurch even further to the left and excuse even more criminality. (thetruthaboutguns.com)
  • The law had only relatively recently made a distinction between the two-and it still provided virtually identical punishments, regardless of consent. (hrw.org)
  • Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandates ob-gyn residency programs offer experience with training in induced abortion. (houstonpublicmedia.org)
  • At first she was denied admission (she later wrote that the associate dean had told her it wasn't because she was black, but because she was a woman), however Kennedy threatened to sue and was admitted. (thehumanist.com)
  • If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. (beck.org)