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On May 31, 2019, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation explaining California's abortion laws, and encouraged women from states seeking to restrict a woman's ability to get an abortion to come to California for an abortion if she needs one. The statement read in part, "California will continue to uphold women's equality and ...
An abortion-rights campaigner in Spain voicing disagreement with the Catholic view on abortion during the Pope's visit. Christianity and abortion have a long and complex history. Condemnation of abortion by Christians goes back to the 1st century with texts such as the Didache, the Epistle of Barnabas, and the Apocalypse of Peter.
Later Christian thought on abortion. From the 4th to 16th Century AD, Christian philosophers, while maintaining the condemnation of abortion as wrong, had varying stances on whether abortion was murder. Under the first Christian Roman emperor Constantine, there was a relaxation of attitudes toward abortion and exposure of children. [1]
Abortion rights advocates point to Fontana as an example of how local opposition can undermine California's progressive abortion access laws, which are among the strongest in the nation.
Proposition 4, or the Abortion Waiting Period and Parental Notification Initiative, also known to its supporters as Sarah's Law, was an initiative state constitutional amendment in the 2008 California general election. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The initiative would prohibit abortion for un-emancipated minors until 48 hours after physician notifies minor's ...
Existing California law permits legal abortion until fetal viability, the point when a child could survive a delivery, between 22 and 24 weeks into pregnancy. Following fetal viability, abortion ...
Following the 1968 publication of Humanae Vitae, an encyclical by Pope Paul VI that expressly forbade abortion and most methods of birth control [9] and that sowed controversy within the church over its restatement of the prohibition on birth control, [10] Catholic bishops in the United States started to stress anti-abortion views as a central facet of Catholic identity and preached against ...
History of abortion law debate. In the earliest written sources, abortion is not considered as a general category of crime. Rather, specific kinds of abortion are prohibited, for various social and political reasons. In the earliest texts, it can be difficult to discern to what extent a particular religious injunction held force as secular law.