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...second claim made by anti-abortion activists is that God hates women who get abortions. There are multiple religious positions on the moral justification of abortions. Some interpretations say that abortions are justified until the fetus could be viable outside the womb. Many say that abortion is justified in cases where the life of the mother would be in danger, or in cases of rape or incest. For those who go for evolutionary justifications, some would say that abortions are justified when the woman would be more likely to go on to have more children at a later point...
...From any moral standpoint, however, if we are to discuss God’s position on abortion, we must also consider that God also surely hates men who rape women and boyfriends who discourage their girlfriends from using condoms, and must disapprove of the mixed messages children get about sex in many communities. Decisions about whether to have an abortion are not made in moral vacuums—rather, they have always taken place within a much broader calculus of moral issues. Central to the belief of pro-choice advocates is the belief that personal decisions about reproductive health...
...trip to the doctor’s office to obtain the necessary prescription. But most doctors’ offices are not open on the weekends—a time when the most number of women are probably in need—and pharmacies are not always free from moral prejudice. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that currently only six percent of women of childbearing age had ever used the drug...
Almost 45 years later, we still can’t seem to shake our nation’s sexually conservative agenda. A pending bill in Missouri would allow pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill on moral grounds and similar legislation was introduced in Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington this past year. Meanwhile, the Colorado state legislature recently decided that medical care providers should not be required to inform rape victims that emergency contraception is available to them. And in Virginia, the state legislature is considering a bill that would prohibit the health clinics...
Almost 45 years later, we still can’t seem to shake our nation’s sexually conservative agenda. A pending bill in Missouri would allow pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill on moral grounds and similar legislation was introduced in Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington this past year. Meanwhile, the Colorado state legislature recently decided that medical care providers should not be required to inform rape victims that emergency contraception is available to them. And in Virginia, the state legislature is considering a bill that would prohibit the health clinics...