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The Democrats are a morally incoherent party, and nothing captures with more perfection the feckless irrationality than Sen. Tim Kaine on abortion. Speaking to CNN, the irrational Kaine said, "I have a traditional Catholic personal position, but I am very strongly supportive that women should make these decisions and government shouldn't intrude[.] ... I'm a strong supporter of Roe v.
Hillary Clinton has picked Virginia senator Tim Kaine as her V.P. Much is being made of the fact that he speaks Spanish and is Catholic and used his Spanish while a Catholic missionary. Kaine is the latest Catholic politician to follow the tortured logic of Mario Cuomo to justify abortion when you know it is wrong, according both to your faith and to logic.
You can't have a story about abortion laws without a certain amount of angst and controversy, but this week's news out of Alaska was disturbing for reasons which go well beyond the ubiquitous battles between pro-life and pro-abortion forces. The state had previously passed a referendum driven law which required parental notification 48 hours in advance for girls below the age of majority to have an abortion.
Conservatives frequently say we must appoint "conservative judges" who don't make law, but interpret the law. This sounds great, but a close analysis shows why it doesn't work out the way we want.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump speaks to the media regarding money he listed as being donated to veterans groups at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, U.S., May 31, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson The American Civil Liberties Union released a 28-page report Friday arguing most of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's governing agenda is unconstitutional, and promises to keep a running tally of all Trump's policy goals that run afoul of the Constitution.
One of Donald Trump's potential running mates said Sunday that women should be the ones to decide whether or not to have abortions. Women "are the ones that have to make the decision because they're theones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not," Ret.
Stung by the recent Supreme Court decision that overturned Texas abortion clinic restrictions, leaders of the country's largest anti-abortion group are redoubling their efforts for restrictions on abortion that they claim will prevent fetal pain and that they think can fare well in the public eye and, they hope, in the courts. The National Right to Life Committee's leaders said they remained confident in their strategy of undermining Roe v.
Last month the Supreme Court issued a decision that many believe is the turning of the tide in reaffirming the right to seek an abortion. Whole Woman's Health vs. Hellerstedt overturned many of the provisions of Texas' House Bill 2, a law that resulted in closing more than half of the state's clinics.
Litigation over abortion threatens to go on forever, and it probably will. Feminists see abortion almost as a rite of female passage; others as an offense against nature, if not against God.
A federal judge's decision to block a new Indiana abortion law from taking effect was a setback for anti-abortion activists who backed the push to tighten restrictions on the procedure that are already among the most strict in the country. Provisions put on hold a day before they were to take effect Friday would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus' genetic abnormalities, such as Down syndrome or because of the race, gender or ancestry of a fetus, and required that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated.
My father was an obstetrician-gynecologist in Texas. Shortly after Roe v. Wade, until he passed away ten years ago, my father performed abortions in San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and Laredo.
Donald Trump read a litany of trade deals Thursday in which he said Mexico got the better of the U.S., and then a jet roared overhead from nearby Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.
After the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down certain abortion restrictions, a local TV station reporter interviewed a young woman outside the gates at the South Wind Women's Center. This woman said that women going into the clinic didn't know what they were doing.
In a 5-3 vote June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down restrictions on Texas abortion clinics that required them to comply with standards of ambulatory surgical centers and required their doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals.
On Monday , in the case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt , the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-3 decision, struck down a Texas law that ensured abortion facilities are clean and safe.
In this June 2015 photo, California state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, is thanked by Leah Russin, holding her 21-month-old son, Leo, 2, after Pan's bill requiring nearly all school children to be vaccinated was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The birth-control wars have reached a new level of contestation. On Monday, June 27th, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law - Whole Woman's Health v.
Handing down its second major abortion action in as many days, the U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to rescue a Wisconsin law restricting abortion clinics and doctors in the state, leaving in place lower court rulings that had struck it down. The unsigned order ends a three-year legal fight and was accompanied Tuesday by another rejection of an appeal by Mississippi that sought to reinstate a similar law requiring abortion doctors to be able to admit patients to nearby hospitals.