Get a new attitude.In the September cover story ("A little less confrontation, a little more action") by Vincent Gragnani, there is a subhead sub·head n. In both senses also called subheading. 1. The heading or title of a subdivision of a printed subject. 2. A subordinate heading or title. Noun 1. "What about the women?" in which the slogan "Women deserve better" was referenced. Yes, they do, but the church and society are going to have to change their attitudes about women before that ever happens. Priests and others demonstrate in front of women's health-care centers to protest abortion. Many times in the Prayers of the Faithful during Mass we mention abortion. I have heard deacons discuss the evils of abortion in the homily homily (hŏm`əlē), type of oral religious instruction delivered to a church congregation. In the patristic period through the Middle Ages the focus of the homily was on the explanation and application of texts read or sung during the . But when the legislative board cuts funding for programs that protect children, there is not one word of protest. Darlene Clements San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. Gragnani's article on the search to establish a middle ground in the abortion debate The abortion debate refers to discussion and controversy surrounding the moral and legal status of abortion. The two main groups involved in the abortion debate are the pro-choice movement, which generally supports access to abortion and regards it as morally permissible, and the highlighted the "95-10 Initiative" of Democrats for Life (DFLA DFLA Disenhanced Four-letter Acronym DFLA Damn Four Letter Acronym ). In fact, this initiative is an example of how difficult common ground is to achieve. Unveiled in April 2005, the initiative was so named because of its goal of reducing abortions by 95 percent in 10 years. Rep. Tim Ryan
Timothy J. "Tim" Ryan (born July 16, 1973) is an American member of the Democratic Party, who is a U.S. representative for the 17th district of Ohio, serving since 2003. , the pro-life Democrat most associated with the bill, spent over a year trying to get prolife and pro-choice Democrats on board. When the bill was finally introduced by Ryan and pro-choice Catholic Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the number of prolife members and groups who supported it had dwindled down to very few. The simple fact was that the bill included contraception as one of the ways to reduce the incidence of abortion and that alone was enough to cause defections from the prolife camp. One needs to ask: Is there truly common ground on reducing the incidence of abortion if even moderate anti-abortion groups cannot step up to the plate and work for access to contraception? Until groups like Democrats for Life accept that contraception is vital to reducing the incidence of abortion, the potentially productive middle ground Gragnani wrote of in his article will remain nothing more than a sound bite. Frances Kissling President, Catholics for a Free Choice Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) is a pro-choice political organization whose founders hold the belief that "the Catholic tradition supports a woman's moral and legal right to follow her conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health. Washington, D.C. |
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