• Therefore, while sterilization, abortion and mass killing were products of eugenics during the World War II, prenatal testing and selective-abortion is argued to be its extension in today's time. (feminisminindia.com)
  • In 1919, Alabama enacted a eugenic sterilization statute that authorized eugenicists in the state to explore their warped ideas about 'racial improvement. (donaldwatkins.com)
  • It was heavily influenced by racist theorists such as Madison Grant , who promoted immigration reform and forced sterilization. (rationalwiki.org)
  • The Supreme Court gave legal backing to forced sterilization using eugenic ideas in the 1927 Buck v. Bell case. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Suddenly, instead of mere millions, there were hundreds of millions and eventually billions of dollars available to fund global campaigns of mass abortion and forced sterilization. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • In many countries abortion is available upon request up to a certain point in the pregnancy, not taking into account why the mother wants the abortion, but in a small number of countries all abortions are prohibited, including for those pregnancies that risk the mother's life, including Vatican City, El Salvador, Chile and Malta. (wikipedia.org)
  • Up until the Court's decision, most of the Mexican penal codes acknowledged three causes for legal abortions: rape, fetal anomalies, and risk to the mother's life. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • However, in September 2021, Bukele withdrew from a constitutional reform bill the possibility of legalizing abortion when the mother's life is in danger, after criticism from the Catholic Church. (ticotimes.net)
  • The law permits abortions only if the mother's life is at risk or if the fetus cannot survive. (donaldwatkins.com)
  • The justices argued that the criminalization of abortion stigmatizes, is discriminatory for women, affects the poorest and most vulnerable, and that access to safe abortion must be a right for all women. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • Just two days after ruling the unconstitutionality of the criminalization of abortion, the Supreme Court also ruled that one of those amendments-that of the state of Sinaloa-was unconstitutional. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • But these impressive advances stand in stark contrast to the persistent criminalization of abortion in El Salvador. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Some anti-abortion activists are concerned that genetic testing will give women excuses to get abortions. (wikipedia.org)
  • On May 15, 2019, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the most aggressive anti-abortion law in recent American history. (donaldwatkins.com)
  • It was passed to advance anti-abortion political interests in the fight to overturn the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade , and nothing more. (donaldwatkins.com)
  • Horatio Robinson Storer was a surgeon and anti-abortion activist in the 1800s who worked in the field of women's reproductive health and led the Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion in the US. (asu.edu)
  • The Silent Scream is an anti-abortion film released in 1984 by American Portrait Films, then based in Brunswick, Ohio. (asu.edu)
  • The film was created and narrated by Bernard Nathanson, an obstetrician and gynecologist from New York, and it was produced by Crusade for Life, an evangelical anti-abortion organization. (asu.edu)
  • While he says no abortion clinics are planned for B.C., anti-abortion groups fear Morgentaler is eyeing Nanaimo and Victoria. (morgentaler25years.ca)
  • During the early twentieth century, champions of eugenic social engineering variously advocated contraception, restrictions on the rights of the 'unfit' to marry and the sterilisation of those they deemed unfit. (huixiangyuanbaozi.com)
  • The first eugenic sterilisation bill in the United States was introduced in 1897 in the state of Michigan: it was not passed into law. (huixiangyuanbaozi.com)
  • Abortion advocates have always known that contraception leads to abortion, but hoped abortion would lead to contraception - better sterilisation, since the eugenics/population control movement believed the numbers of 'unfit' should be curbed and that they were 'mad' to want children, thus requesting abortion showed mental competence. (cmq.org.uk)
  • [3] There have been more than 60 million abortions in the United States since 1973. (conservapedia.com)
  • One and a half million abortions per year has put a considerable dent in the supply side of the American adoption market, plus adoption is one area where discrimination on the basis of race or handicap is still eminently respectable. (commentary.org)
  • Although the scholarship and literature dates the ideology of eugenics back to Plato, the contemporary manifestation of its practice is still very evident from the various selective-abortion laws. (feminisminindia.com)
  • The theory and practice of eugenics covers the entire spectrum of the "slippery slope," from artificial contraception to abortion to euthanasia to genocide, and also encompasses many other evils as well. (ewtn.com)
  • Until about 1985 in this country, eugenics practice had been limited to dictating that it is we , not God, who determines who will be born into this world (through the widespread practice of abortion). (ewtn.com)
  • Elitist supporters of eugenic social policy variously championed measures aimed at preventing undesirables from reproducing (negative eugenics) while at times also supporting policies designed to encourage suitable people to have healthy offspring (positive eugenics). (huixiangyuanbaozi.com)
  • Even more disturbing, files released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal a 'sex industry' with the unborn child as raw material, creating income for abortion clinics and work for researchers, while fulfilling the long-term goals of population control and eugenics. (cmq.org.uk)
  • 4] Contraceptive education - a long-cherished aim of the eugenics movement, of which the abortion campaign was part [5] - fuelled promiscuity and thus conceptions. (cmq.org.uk)
  • Reasons for move to ban contraception and abortion- wealthy class desired more workers. (atheistscholar.org)
  • In Catholic Ireland, where abortion and contraception were prohibited, systems of coercive confinement for unmarried mothers and their unaccepted children persisted for much of the twentieth century. (huixiangyuanbaozi.com)
  • Undeterred, an incestuous network of campaigns and charities advocated sex education, contraception and abortion, with clinics disposing of the outcomes. (cmq.org.uk)
  • 1) Eugenic reason, 2) Medico-economic reason, and 3) Rape. (spaceallies.com)
  • Rape or life of the mother are extremely rare circumstances accounting for less than 1% of all abortions, with little bearing on the broader "abortion on demand" issue, particularly since all legislation the pro-life movement has been putting out recently has included exceptions for them, and many states had laws allowing abortion for such cases before Roe v. Wade - abortion was legalized for other reasons. (conservapedia.com)
  • Criminal Law was enacted in 1880, and penalises both the pregnant woman and the person who performed an abortion, as a crime of Feticide. (spaceallies.com)
  • Abortion is the induced termination of a pregnancy , [1] often causing fetal pain . (conservapedia.com)
  • Francois Lafitte opened an abortion clinic in the 1960s,[8] becoming Chairman of BPAS (British Pregnancy Advisory Service) which supplied fetal material for research into pre-natal disability diagnosis. (cmq.org.uk)
  • Marty then writes, "Abortion rights activists explained repeatedly throughout the Gosnell trial in 2013 that Kermit Gosnell was exactly what women resort to when abortion becomes too hard to obtain. (humandefense.com)
  • And when it comes to that, 18,150 abortions occur after the 21st week of pregnancy [8] - the earliest point children can be born prematurely and live. (conservapedia.com)
  • [9] An additional 45,980 abortions occur in the 16th-20th weeks of pregnancy. (conservapedia.com)
  • [8] These are 60 thousand abortions each year that are clearly murder, since the child is at or near the same stage of pregnancy as children born prematurely via C-Section. (conservapedia.com)
  • [14] ( See History ) Gallup polling in 2012 reveals that just 24% of Americans support abortion after the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, [15] even though abortion is allowed in all 9 months. (conservapedia.com)
  • The RCOG reported that it was aware of, the slow but growing problem of trainees opting out of training in the termination of pregnancy and [that it] is therefore concerned about the abortion service of the future. (johnling.co.uk)
  • Predictably, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which carries out a quarter of all UK abortions, believes the Government should do more to, motivate doctors to train in abortion. (johnling.co.uk)
  • There is no question that he performed even general, legal abortions without the care or training a person should expect from a medical provider when terminating a pregnancy. (humandefense.com)
  • The solution is more programs for mothers in need, more funding for crisis pregnancy centers, reforming the foster care and adoption systems, better education on preborn life, compassion, and countless other things. (humandefense.com)
  • 6] The Family Planning Association claimed "the aim is to reduce conceptions"- but more under-18s "making different choices about pregnancy"(i.e. 'choosing' abortion') was "another indicator of the strategy at work. (cmq.org.uk)
  • Mexico is a federal republic and each state has its own penal code, so abortion laws differ from state to state. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • The Salvadoran Penal Code since 1998 prohibits abortion in all cases and establishes penalties of up to 8 years. (ticotimes.net)
  • Abortion has two victims: the unborn child, and the mother who can never forget the loss she caused. (conservapedia.com)
  • [13] Abortion always ends the life of the unborn child, typically by dismemberment. (conservapedia.com)
  • Although there is no national reporting arrangement, statistics from the WA and SA Health Departments show an increase in post 20-week abortions for "foetal anomalies" and "foetal reasons" - mainly Down syndrome. (acl.org.au)
  • The ultimate consequence to society if we devalue the lives of people with disabilities or anomalies is nothing short of eugenic. (acl.org.au)
  • Countries that allow abortion if the mother is at risk but do not allow abortion if the fetus has a genetic defect include Iran, Ireland, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. (wikipedia.org)
  • Seicho-No-Ie' submitted the Eugenic Protection Law Reform Bill to delete the economic reason article and add the fetus article, to the Diet in 1972 and 1973, but the reform bill did not pass due to insufficient discussion and examination. (spaceallies.com)
  • The legislation defines a fetus as a legal person "for homicide purposes" and compares abortion to the Holocaust and other genocides. (donaldwatkins.com)
  • In the video, Nathanson narrates ultrasound footage of an abortion of a twelve-week-old fetus, claiming that the fetus opened its mouth in what Nathanson calls a silent scream during the procedure. (asu.edu)
  • In a 2018 NBC op-ed , writer Robin Marty claimed the actions and circumstances of Kermit Gosnell's abortion clinic were caused by pro-lifers. (humandefense.com)
  • Pius IX declares all abortion a sin in 1969. (atheistscholar.org)
  • He has crusaded for more liberal abortion laws since 1969 when Parliament legalized the operation - but only for certain cases in certain hospitals. (morgentaler25years.ca)
  • Dr. Bernad Nathanson showed an abortion from the point of view of the pre-born child in " The Silent Scream . (theinterim.com)
  • General provisions to promote women's health throughout their lives are needed from the view point of reproductive health/rightsmWTh e national second Gender Equality Basic Plan, however, states that'the Japanese government does not accept abortion rights beyond the description of law because abortion is covered by Criminal Law and the Law for Protection of Mothers' Bodies. (spaceallies.com)
  • [5] After communism was overthrown in Poland , abortion there declined by 99% after abortion was abolished, [6] and women's health has dramatically improved there due to fewer abortions. (conservapedia.com)
  • Chief Justice Arturo Zaldívar said, after Mexico's Supreme Court unanimously ruled that criminalizing abortion is unconstitutional. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • The conservative federal government of Felipe Calderón challenged this reform before the Supreme Court, but the Court upheld the law. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • [4] In a pro-life victory on June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court reversed the pro-abortion Roe v. Wade decision. (conservapedia.com)
  • The woman who receives the abortion would not be held "criminally culpable or civilly liable. (donaldwatkins.com)
  • In Japan, economic reason has been applied most often by women who become unintentionally pregnant and wish to have an abortion. (spaceallies.com)
  • Reproductive rights organizations estimate that some 700 women have been imprisoned in the country under the "crime of abortion. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • According to Verónica Cruz Sánchez, director of the reproductive rights organization Las Libres, based in the conservative state of Guanajuato, some 70% of all the women in prison have had miscarriages, not abortions. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • This kind of persecution of women is a result of the strengthening of restrictive abortion laws in the country, after abortion was decriminalized in Mexico City in 2007. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • Breast cancer rates increase by more than six times for women who have abortion. (conservapedia.com)
  • Millions of women who had an abortion later suffer psychologically or physically from it, and support groups exist to help. (conservapedia.com)
  • [12] "Abortion doesn't solve your problems, it only creates different ones," warned a full-page ad by women who had abortions. (conservapedia.com)
  • The latest figures show that there were 201,173 abortions in England and Wales during 2006 these were performed on 193,737 resident women plus 7,436 non-residents. (johnling.co.uk)
  • Indeed, it is now estimated that one in three UK women will have an abortion during their lifetime. (johnling.co.uk)
  • Can abortion ever really be in the best interests of women? (johnling.co.uk)
  • It appears that a quarter of UK doctors are refusing to refer women for terminations and more than half said that the current 24-week abortion limit should be reduced because medical advances mean that babies born before that cut-off time are capable of survival. (johnling.co.uk)
  • Large numbers of women now, especially those who've had abortions and are now active in the pro-life movement, don't see it that way. (consistent-life.org)
  • Over two dozen women have been imprisoned for the crimes of murder or abortion - many apprehended while seeking healthcare in the wake of a miscarriage. (inthesetimes.com)
  • With so much progress for women in other areas, how has this inhumane abortion ban remained intact? (inthesetimes.com)
  • The Women's Right to Know Act requires physicians to provide specific information to women before they may consent to having an abortion. (asu.edu)
  • Because of the scarcity of birth control and the strain each additional child placed on already desperate families, women often attempted home abortions by using sharp objects or homemade remedies. (yoest.com)
  • The Pennsylvania Department of Health also holds some responsibility for the murder of these babies, the spread of disease from Gosnell's clinic, and the death of the women who died during botched abortions by not conducting an inspection for nine years, allowing the clinic to stay open after failing that health inspection, then not inspecting it again for another 16 years. (humandefense.com)
  • Gosnell and the Pennsylvania Department of Health are at fault - not the pro-life movement, not the women seeking abortion, and not pro-life legislation. (humandefense.com)
  • Gosnell is exactly what happens when women are brainwashed into thinking abortion is their only option and are not offered support and compassion by those around them. (humandefense.com)
  • 1] Without information on the well-documented physical and mental health risks of abortion [2] from clinics charging £80 for counselling,[3] how 'balanced' a judgement can women make? (cmq.org.uk)
  • He only began performing abortions because he saw desperate women coming to him, asking for help. (morgentaler25years.ca)
  • This part of the module will use the language of "men" and "women" given that the abortion debate has mostly occurred on this terrain. (wgs270.org)
  • That being said, it is important to keep in mind that not only women have abortions, and not only women get pregnant. (wgs270.org)
  • Men vs. women: The abortion debate raises questions about fairness and equality. (wgs270.org)
  • Should the state have a say in the reproductive lives and choices of women and folks who have abortions? (wgs270.org)
  • There are accounts that suggest that many Indigenous women used a variety of practices to induce abortion, and it was also a fact of life after colonization as well. (wgs270.org)
  • Abortion was practiced by women in settler colonies as it had been in their European countries of origin. (wgs270.org)
  • This meant that information about abortion and contraceptives was largely communicated by a network of women that remained at the periphery of the formal political and medical realms. (wgs270.org)
  • From the very onset of the abortion reform movement, disability-based selective abortion enjoyed significant public support. (feminisminindia.com)
  • For example, there is mounting support for an association between abortion and the onset of breast cancer, the so-called ABC link. (johnling.co.uk)
  • Physicians, district prosecutors and judges obstruct women's access to legal abortions as much as they can, so in many cases it is virtually impossible to get one. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • However, prosecutors and judges even classify cases of involuntary abortion as "aggravated homicide", with sentences of up to 50 years. (ticotimes.net)
  • In the 2019 election, we saw the enduring weight of the abortion debate when Andrew Scheer was hurt by his pro-life views (even when he promised not to reopen the debate). (wgs270.org)
  • Specifically, disability-selective abortion is the abortion of fetuses that are found to have non-fatal mental or physical defects detected through prenatal testing. (wikipedia.org)
  • Esme "has been released on preventive liberty, and has to go to sign every 15 days (to the court)," Morena Herrera, coordinator of the Citizens' Group for the Decriminalization of Therapeutic, Ethical and Eugenic Abortion (Acdatee), told AFP. (ticotimes.net)
  • On February 3 , I sat down with Sara García of the Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion in the capital city of San Salvador, El Salvador, to discuss the movement for reproductive justice and the political power dynamics behind one of the world's most restrictive anti-choice laws. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Can you start by explaining the Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion? (inthesetimes.com)
  • The Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion arose in the framework of a binational summit in Nicaragua. (inthesetimes.com)
  • The sentence considers her abortion as aggravated homicide. (ticotimes.net)
  • Proposed abortion legislation in Queensland and laws like those in Victoria send the clear message that some lives aren't worth living. (acl.org.au)
  • This year is the ruby anniversary of our dreadful 1967 Abortion Act there is nothing to celebrate This is the legislation that has sanctioned the death of some 7 million unborn children throughout England, Scotland and Wales. (johnling.co.uk)
  • The goal of the model legislation, which AUL annually updates, is to help state governments enact enhanced informed consent laws for abortion. (asu.edu)
  • For example, 'Seicho-No-Ie' has campaigned to delete the economic reason article as a reason for abortions and also campaigned against the practice of birth control since the 1950's. (spaceallies.com)
  • Abortion is a ghastly practice, unworthy of any civilised society. (johnling.co.uk)
  • Abortion has thus become deeply embedded in our nation s thinking and practice. (johnling.co.uk)
  • New data shows that progressive abortion laws risk becoming eugenic in nature the Australian Christian Lobby said today. (acl.org.au)
  • Similarly, Indian laws employed and sanctioned disability-based selective abortions as a method to thwart the growing population with disabilities and thereby lighten the burden of the state's obligation to the disabled community. (feminisminindia.com)
  • Eugenic abortion laws unmask the exponential harm legislations such as the MTP do in the society. (feminisminindia.com)
  • By diminishing the value as well as visibility of disability from the society, the state through the laws of selective abortion inherently disenfranchises the community from the abled demography to paint a perfectly healthy picture of human society which devoid of any forms of abnormalities. (feminisminindia.com)
  • IN JAPAN, there are three main laws related to abortion, Criminal Law, the Law for Protection of Mothers' Bodies (before revision, it was called the Eugenic Protection Law), and the Maternal and Child Health Law. (spaceallies.com)
  • Feminist and human rights organizations have called on authorities to decriminalize abortion and reform laws. (ticotimes.net)
  • Beginning in the early 1820s, however, both Canada (under British colonial rule) and the newly independent U.S. began to enact increasingly restrictive laws fully prohibiting abortion. (wgs270.org)
  • A growing body of evidence increasingly suggests that abortion is linked to Breast Cancer, later premature births, and other health concerns. (conservapedia.com)
  • In order to stake out the moral high ground over midwives, physicians increasingly opposed abortion, which was largely practiced by midwives. (wgs270.org)
  • For instance, in April, the RCOG warned that Britain could be facing an abortion crisis because an increasing number of doctors and nurses are refusing to get involved. (johnling.co.uk)
  • In the 1970s, with most doctors and nurses invoking the Abortion Act's 'conscience clause', campaigners' calls for more NHS abortions [15] made more money for the clinics. (cmq.org.uk)
  • Furthermore, since abortion in Mexico is very negatively regarded ( 53% of Mexicans think that abortion should be illegal) and there is legal uncertainty for health care personnel, legal abortions are hard to access and are rarely officially practiced. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • While countries throughout Latin America are taking great strides in favor of legal abortion rights, "it is disappointing to see that El Salvador continues to be on the wrong side of history and human rights," she said. (ticotimes.net)
  • Historically, abortion was first made legal and unrestricted nationwide in the Soviet Union under Lenin and his Bolsheviks . (conservapedia.com)
  • [16] Just 25% believe abortion should be legal under all circumstances, and an additional 13% believe it should be legal under most circumstances. (conservapedia.com)
  • Sunday he speaks to the Victoria Canadian Abortion Rights Activist League to raise funds for his legal defence. (morgentaler25years.ca)
  • But he did change the legal establishment's outlook on abortion and jury verdicts. (morgentaler25years.ca)
  • As long as the Criminal Code stipulates that abortion is illegal unless the patient is approved by a hospital abortion committee and the operation is conducted in an accredited hospital, prosecutors will always have grounds to lay charges, says a professor of legal ethics at the University of B.C. (morgentaler25years.ca)
  • To the extent that abortion was subject to legal regulation, the standards in both the U.S. and Canada were relatively permissive until the 1800s, and followed the quickening distinction. (wgs270.org)
  • Reproductive rights' advocates both locally and abroad have objected to El Salvador's calls for family planning: In El Salvador, abortion is defined by law as a criminal act, without exception. (inthesetimes.com)
  • They are Canadians who say abortion is tantamount to murder and that life begins at conception. (morgentaler25years.ca)
  • After 2001, however, the neo-conservatives who helped establish U.S. Bush Administration strengthened pressure on the Japanese government to insert conservative family values, including denying abortion rights, into Japanese policy. (spaceallies.com)
  • Eugenic societies were established in Germany (from 1905), New Zealand (1911), the United States (1911), the Netherlands (1912), Sweden (1910) and Australia (1913). (huixiangyuanbaozi.com)
  • The National Healthcare Reform of 2010 established over 600 community health clinics in rural and underserved areas, with healthcare promoters bringing pre- and post-natal care to women's homes. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Recent political battles over abortion counselling highlighted the inherent conflict of interests in clinics advising potential customers. (cmq.org.uk)
  • Opening abortion clinics in 1983 has invited new prosecution and many costly police raids. (morgentaler25years.ca)
  • Accordingly it is now called the Law for Protection of Mothers' Bodies whereby the eugenic reason for abortion was deleted. (spaceallies.com)
  • [11] Many victims of abortion find healing by speaking out against, and discouraging, similar harm to other mothers and their children. (conservapedia.com)
  • One is how to defend abortion rights in the climate of backlash against gender equality and reproductive rights. (spaceallies.com)
  • While the first section will provide an overview of reproductive rights and abortion debates in Canada, the second section will focus on the concept of reproductive justice. (wgs270.org)
  • Transmen and non-binary folks face additional barriers and challenges when it comes to reproductive rights and abortion access. (wgs270.org)
  • One only has to look at the recent mass anti-government upheaval in heavily Catholic Poland against a constitutional court ruling outlawing eugenic abortion to see that political Christianity of the sort that Ahmari and I both would welcome treads on thin ice. (firstthings.com)
  • She lost the baby and is now trying to avoid a definite 30-year prison sentence in El Salvador, where abortion is prohibited and punishable in all its extremes. (ticotimes.net)
  • In 1997 , the right-wing controlled legislature voted to criminalize abortion without exception, joining neighboring Honduras and Nicaragua along with Chile and the Dominican Republic in a disgraceful regional club of nations with absolute abortion bans. (inthesetimes.com)
  • About 99% of states regulate abortion, and as we will see, Canada is a rare exception. (wgs270.org)
  • In 1996 the Eugenic Protection Law was partially revised. (spaceallies.com)
  • They say however, that "the pro-life movement cannot tackle effectively the issue of eugenic abortion without tackling discriminating attitudes towards the disabled. (theinterim.com)
  • The genetics and abortion issue is an extension of the abortion debate and the disability rights movement. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prima facie , the issue of selective abortions does not seem to pertain particularly to the disabled community, however, there is more than what meets the eye. (feminisminindia.com)
  • Abortion is an essentially contested issue. (wgs270.org)
  • Yet despite all this talk about abortion being a woman s right, and part of her autonomy and her healthcare needs, there remains in our collective conscience an intuitive feeling, written on our hearts, that abortion is somehow abnormal and wrong. (johnling.co.uk)
  • Not all genetic markers which can be checked are for disease, leaving open the possibility that parents may choose an abortion based on personal preference rather than avoidance of disease. (wikipedia.org)
  • Under extreme pressure from those who should provide support - including the child's father - how authentic is consent to abortion? (cmq.org.uk)
  • The Life Respect Center established the Yen-bryo (embryo) Fund in 1993 to prevent abortions for economic distress. (spaceallies.com)
  • A freelance writer recently interviewed me on this question: Why is it that U.S. states tend to divide out, with some having the death penalty but passing restrictions on abortion, while others fund abortion and don't have the death penalty? (consistent-life.org)
  • Dr. White's major concern is that today researchers are more concerned with finding tests to identify the handicapped in the womb, in order to kill them by abortion, than to find the causes and the cures for conditions such as Down's Syndrome, spina bifida, and cystic fibrosis. (theinterim.com)
  • Conversely, the liberal and radical consistent-lifers show that opposition to abortion is quite capable of being cast in liberal principles. (consistent-life.org)
  • But polls have also shown that most people support abortion for eugenic reasons, and in cases of a potentially handicapped baby. (theinterim.com)
  • However, these cases altogether probably account for less than 10% of all the reasons for having an abortion. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • It has been rightly argued by Smitha Nizar in her book, The Contradiction in Disability Law , that the most powerful vehicle of the eugenic ideology has been the law. (feminisminindia.com)
  • It is argued that selective-abortions under Section 4 of the PDNT Act as well as Section 3 of the MTP Act does more than just comply by the medical model of disability and serve the eugenic interests of the state. (feminisminindia.com)
  • And yet such experiments encouraged vested interests in abortion that enmeshed science, governments and disability charities. (cmq.org.uk)
  • Abortion increases the risk of breast cancer, future premature birth, mental illness, and other long-term health problems for the mother, as detailed below. (conservapedia.com)
  • [2] Additional victims of abortion include after-born children, who have a higher rate of premature birth and birth defects due to the harm caused by a prior abortion. (conservapedia.com)
  • He's a passionate, affectionate and alive humanist," says Marva Blackmore of the Concerned Citizens for Choice on Abortion, sponsors of a Morgentaler rally at UBC Friday. (morgentaler25years.ca)
  • I would be heard," wrote Margaret Sanger after one of her patients died of a self-induced abortion in 1913. (yoest.com)
  • But to have an abortion, judgment by a doctor and an agreement by male spouse of the pregnant woman are needed, so the women's right to choose has not yet been guaranteed. (spaceallies.com)
  • The Court's decision will be retroactive for any woman who is imprisoned for having an abortion. (humanrightsincontext.be)
  • 1. Patriarchs - understood as the Head of the Household - used to decide whether or not a woman got an abortion, and her opinion on the matter was irrelevant. (consistent-life.org)
  • There have been, however, many backlash movements to attempt to delete the economic reason article, so the Women's Liberation Movement has actively fought to defend abortion rights. (spaceallies.com)
  • In this background, 'Seicho-No-Ie' attempted to re-submit the Eugenic Protection Law Reform Bill intending to delete an economic reason article in 1982, but the attempt was failed due to resistance from the Women's Liberation Movement, the movement by people with disabilities, the Japan Family Planning Association, and other many groups. (spaceallies.com)
  • A New Civil Rights Movement or A Neo-Eugenic Mass Treatment of Children," says one of the headlines . (techrights.org)
  • Opinion polls have shown quite clearly that most people are against abortion. (theinterim.com)
  • Under the garb of women's rights, public health and greater societal good, prenatal testing and selective abortions truly represent a significant step towards the ultimate achievement of the eugenicist's dream of eliminating disabilities by eliminating disabled people. (feminisminindia.com)
  • The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world, nothing independent, nothing moved by its own vitality, nothing out of keeping with some idea: even our children must not be our progeny, but our creation. (ewtn.com)