It is particularly common in political arguments: " My opponent is a conservative who voted against higher taxes and welfare, therefore he will also oppose gun control and abortion.

He was an outspoken opponent of abortion, which he called the " slaughter of the innocent unborn ", and once served as chairman of the Bishops ' Pro-life Committee.

Hentoff has said that shortly after he " came out " as an opponent of abortion, several of his colleagues at The Village Voice stopped speaking to him.

On the more conservative Burger Court, Brennan was a staunch opponent of the death penalty, and a supporter of abortion rights, and joined the majority in landmark rulings on both issues ( 1972's Furman v. Georgia on the death penalty and 1973's Roe v. Wade on abortion ).

A staunch opponent of abortion in any form, Cubin consistently voted for restrictions on abortion and against funding of family planning groups that provide abortion services, counseling or advocacy.

The most influential ERA opponent was Phyllis Schlafly, right-wing leader of the Eagle Forum / STOP ERA, who claimed that the ERA would deny a woman ’ s right to be supported by her husband, privacy rights would be overturned, women would be sent into combat, and abortion rights and same-sex marriages would be upheld.

She was also an opponent of abortion, and supported successive attempts to reduce the time-period when the operation could be legally performed.

He is a prominent opponent of abortion and gay rights, and has made controversial comments on immigration and the role of religion in government.

But it contained a provision, negotiated by Senator Charles Schumer and longtime abortion opponent Henry Hyde, providing that court judgments or fines could not be wiped out in bankruptcy: Schumer inserted this as a favor to abortion rights groups, after some abortion protesters declared bankruptcy to avoid paying fines.

Her father, Des Hanafin, as well as being a senator for Fianna Fáil, was a founding member of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children ( SPUC ) and a staunch opponent of contraception, abortion and divorce.

A supporter of gun rights and opponent of abortion rights, Cuellar is the only Blue Dog Democrat in Texas's Congressional delegation.

In 1993, Callahan was a vocal opponent of the NDP government's plans to prohibit the picketing of abortion clinics within Ontario.

He is an advocate of Flemish independence and free trade and is an opponent of abortion.

A strong opponent of abortion, he was a leading member of the National Conference of Bishops ' Pro-Life Committee, and was known as the " father of the pro-life movement in America.

Tiller would later be murdered in church by another opponent of abortion rights.

According to Harper's, the furor was in no small part due to an article in Life Advocate magazine by abortion opponent Jenny Westberg, who independently ordered National Abortion Federation literature containing Haskell's paper, wrote an article and illustrated the procedure with a series of pen-and-ink drawings.

He is a pro-life leader on abortion issues and an opponent to experimentation on human embryonic stem cells.

Scheuer was an early and outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War and opposed governmental interference in private matters such as contraception and abortion.

However, it is not clear to what extent this was due to an influx of Han settlers, who were predominantly displaced young men from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian province or from a variety of other factors, including: frequent intermarriage between Han and aborigines, the replacement of aboriginal marriage and abortion taboos, and the widespread adoption of the Han agricultural lifestyle due to the depletion of traditional game stocks, which may have led to increased birth rates and population growth.

The main and most frequent sensitizing event is child birth ( about 86 % of sensitized cases ), but fetal blood may pass into the maternal circulation earlier during the pregnancy ( about 14 % of sensitized cases ).< ref name = Bowman > Sensitizing events during pregnancy include miscarriage, therapeutic abortion, amniocentesis, ectopic pregnancy, abdominal trauma and external cephalic version.

Moore has become a prominent advocate for women ’ s rights, who releases frequent statements on topics ranging from domestic abuse awareness to abortion rights.

The Formosans also practiced various activities which the Dutch perceived as sinful or at least uncivilised, including mandatory abortion ( by massage ) for women under 37, frequent marital infidelity, non-observation of the Christian Sabbath and general nakedness.

Ovadal is highly opposed to abortion, public nudity, homosexuality, and ecumenism ; his vigorous public actions against them have resulted in frequent scrapes with the law.

The most frequent clinical sign following Brucella suis infection is abortion in pregnant females, reduced milk production, and infertility.

Social conservatives ( in the first meaning of the word ) in many countries generally favor the pro-life position in the abortion controversy and oppose human embryonic stem cell research ( particularly if publicly funded ); oppose both eugenics and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support a traditional definition of marriage as being one man and one woman ; view the nuclear family model as society's foundational unit ; oppose expansion of civil marriage and child adoption rights to couples in same-sex relationships ; promote public morality and traditional family values ; oppose atheism, especially militant atheism, secularism and the separation of church and state ; support the prohibition of drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia ; and support the censorship of pornography and what they consider to be obscenity or indecency.

Current positions associated with social progressivism in the West include opposition to the death penalty, and support for legal recognition of same-sex marriage, distribution of contraceptives, public funding of embryonic stem-cell research, and the right of women to choose abortion.

German social scientists Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger theorize that midwifery became a target of persecution and repression by public authorities because midwives not only possessed highly specialized knowledge and skills regarding assisting birth, but also regarding contraception and abortion.

Redstockings co-founder Ellen Willis wrote in 1984 that radical feminism " got sexual politics recognized as a public issue ", " created the vocabulary … with which the second wave of feminism entered popular culture ", " sparked the drive to legalize abortion ", " were the first to demand total equality in the so-called private sphere " (" housework and child care ,… emotional and sexual needs "), and " created the atmosphere of urgency " that almost led to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Contraception and the pill, public nudity, the normalization of homosexuality and alternative forms of sexuality, and the legalization of abortion all followed.

In some U. S. States, informed consent laws ( sometimes called " Right To Know " laws ) require that a woman seeking an elective abortion be given factual information by the abortion provider about her legal rights, alternatives to abortion ( such as adoption ), available public and private assistance, and medical facts ( some of which are disputed — see fetal pain ), before the abortion is performed ( usually 24 hours in advance of the abortion ).

The contemporary Christian right became increasingly vocal and organized in reaction to a series of United States Supreme Court decisions ( notably Bob Jones University v. Simon and Bob Jones University v. United States ) and also engaged in battles over pornography, obscenity, abortion, state sanctioned prayer in public schools, textbook contents ( concerning creationism ), homosexuality, and sexual education.

Such efforts include bans on late-term abortion ( including intact dilation and extraction ), prohibitions against Medicaid funding and other public funding for elective abortions, removal of taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide abortion services, legislation requiring parental consent and / or notification for abortions performed on minors, legal protections for unborn victims of violence, legal protections for infants born alive following failed abortions, and bans on abortifacient medications.

Since humanists place human progress, not God, at the center of their considerations, they pushed American culture in all manner of ungodly directions, the most visible results of which included legalized abortion and the secularization of the public schools.

Sexual liberalisation heralded a new ethos in experimenting with open sex in and outside of marriage, contraception and the pill, public nudity, gay Liberation, liberalisation of abortion, interracial marriage, a return to natural childbirth, women's rights and feminism.

The campaign was dogged by accusations that the party would allow private health care to operate alongside the public medicare system and introduce two-tier health care, and for threatening gay rights and abortion rights.

Their Solidarity Song became a popular militant anthem sung in street protests and public meetings throughout Europe, and their Ballad of Paragraph 218 was the world's first song protesting laws against abortion.

In 1968 the Humanist Association of Canada was formed to serve as an umbrella group for Humanists, atheists, freethinkers, and to champion social justice issues and oppose religious influence on public policy — most notably in the fight to make access to abortion free and legal in Canada.

ACT-UP disagreed with Cardinal John Joseph O ' Connor on the Roman Catholic Archdiocese's public stand against safe sex education in New York City Public Schools, condom distribution, the Cardinal's public views on homosexuality, as well as Catholic opposition to abortion.

Bush, and Clinton in addition to taking on the issues of the day: Gun control ; abortion ; the influence of fundamentalist Christian groups on public policy ; and the Dot Com bubble.

Concerned Women for America's major areas of public policy activity in recent years have consisted of opposition to LGBT political causes ( especially recognition of same-sex unions ), promoting laws restricting abortion, supporting bans on embryonic stem-cell research, and working against pornography.

His support for abortion rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and civil rights was balanced by his endorsement of public school prayer, capital punishment, tax cuts, and deregulation of industry.

Despite holding opposite positions in 1996, for the 2000 campaign, Forbes announced he was adamantly opposed to abortion and supported prayer in public schools.