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| Rudy not pro-choice? |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 8:08 pm |
| Tags: Abortion, Politics, Christianity, America |
| local politician he supports abortion rights; on the one issue where a President has to act on abortion he's fully committed to the RTL position. And Justice Stevens isn't getting any younger. Thus it's not really right to describe Giuliani, the Presidential candidate, as someone who "supports abortion rights." It's not clear how much this |
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| Putting the Government's Words in the Doctor's Mouth |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 2:47 am |
| Tags: Liptak Adam, South Dakota, Holier Than Thou, Sidebar, Hyperbole, Abortion Politics |
| I never would have had that abortion, and I'd have a daughter today. Ms. Kling said her abortion led her to drinking, depression, divorce and thoughts of suicide.South Dakota, an innovator in abortion legislation, responded to testimony from Ms. Kling and others with a law that requires doctors there to tell women seeking abortions that they |
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| Rudy’s gamble |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 1:08 pm |
| Tags: Church, Abortion, Politics |
| already on the impact of his abortion support, among other issues, to Catholics and social conservatives in general. Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani seems to want to have it both ways when it comes to being Catholic. As he campaigns for president, the Republican frontrunner brings up his Catholic background occasionally but refuses to say |
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| Big day for Republican candidates |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 12:45 pm |
| Tags: Media, Abortion, Politics |
| a woman’s right to abortion and who has since become a foe of the procedure, as well as the brother of Terry Schiavo, who was at the center of a national right-to-die controversy in 2005. Look at the reporting here. Norma McCorvey was the “Jane Roe” of that famous ruling, who has since been considered a foe of the abortion |
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| Commissioned to change the world |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 1:33 pm |
| Tags: Church, Society, Abortion, Politics, Culture |
| opposition to legal abortion. Here’s another one: On May 14, a group of 18 House Democrats issued the following statement stating restricting Communion from pro-abortion politicians offend[s] the very nature of the Amercan experiment . This is a cultural Catholicism that seeks to remake the Church in the image of the changing |
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| Helping women….saving humanity |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 1:01 pm |
| Tags: Society, Abortion, Politics, Culture |
| who know the ravages of abortion firsthand are speaking out in greater numbers in a growing campaign of awareness. One of the leading pro-life women’s groups took their message to Capitol Hill today and told a legislative briefing room full of Congressional staff and interns that women deserve better than abortion. Feminists for Life |
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| While the Court’s on break |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 12:13 pm |
| Tags: Society, Abortion, Politics, Culture |
| writing in the partial-birth abortion ban, Kennedy’s the focus of everyone’s attention on both sides of the political/social spectrum. Especially on issues of abortion, with the chance to correct some former wayward court decisions. As for the ‘conservative bloc’, Goldstein his this analysis on justices Scalia and Thomas |
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| Follow the argument through… |
| Published: August 18, 2007, 1:32 pm |
| Tags: Society, Abortion, Politics, Culture, Bioethics |
| advantage of supporting abortion rights if you have loved ones who have had an abortion. It's just easier. Betray your qualms about the practice in general and they are liable to feel you've betrayed them, and then you in turn are liable to feel their resentment. If your sole objective is to avoid social conflict, you might well calculate |
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| Abortion enshrined |
| Published: September 1, 2007, 2:34 pm |
| Tags: Media, Society, Abortion, Politics, Culture |
| or the presence of an abortion mill that does them? Lie or play word games to sanitize and sell it, then sneak the ‘clinic’ in under deceptive cover. Why do so few abortion activists even talk to anyone other than sympathetic politicians and media about these issues? And when they have to talk to pro-life people, why are |
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| Another ‘first’ presidential debate |
| Published: September 9, 2007, 1:55 pm |
| Tags: Media, Church, Society, Abortion, Politics, Culture |
| because of his support for abortion. And… Sen. Dodd, who served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic, spoke in Spanish and English on Saturday in Coral Gables as he criticized U.S. policy toward Cuba. I’m wondering how that message was received in Coral Gables, which is heavily Cuban American, a community that has |
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| So what to make of this argument? |
| Published: September 15, 2007, 12:52 pm |
| Tags: Society, Abortion, Politics |
| seems to think that a pro-abortion GOP candidate would have a better shot at breaking some logjam or other in the public debate over the issue. But the logjam has only secondarily been in the realm of public opinion. First and foremost, as long as it asserts its hegemony over the issue by upholding Roe, the logjam has been in the Supreme |
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| Abstinence-only education does not work, abstinence-plus probably does [Pure Pedantry] |
| Published: September 24, 2007, 2:56 pm |
| Tags: Reproduction Birth Control Abortion Politics |
| The US government spends millions domestically and billions internationally on abstinence-only education with the intent of lowering the transmission of STIs such as HIV and limiting unwanted pregnancies. Yet abstinence-only education is demonstrably ineffective. The alternative called abstinence-plus education clearly does not make the |
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| It’s ALL about abortion |
| Published: September 29, 2007, 10:49 am |
| Tags: Society, Abortion, Politics, Culture, Bioethics |
| about politics and the culture. He snapped off this one line answer: “It’s all about abortion.” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas concurs. In an interview with the CBS News program “60 Minutes” scheduled for broadcast tonight, pro-life Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says abortion was |
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| Fundamentalism And War |
| Published: October 1, 2007, 3:30 pm |
| Tags: General, Culture, Legal, Abortion, Politics, Elections 2008, Religion, Republicans, Conservatism, Democracy, Supreme Court |
| focus on the extremes of the abortion debate, many Americans including those who say they are pro-choice or pro-life have come to realize that the issue won’t be settled any time soon. In a national poll to be released this week by the influential Democratic think tank Third Way, nearly three quarters said they wish elected leaders |
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