Example sentences of "the right to abortion " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Los Angeles-based stars have set up a pressure group , Rock For Choice , to defend the right to abortion . |
| 2 | They argued that the right to control their own bodies should include the right to abortion . |
| 3 | The victory of Gantt , a liberal who professed support for the right to abortion , and opposed the death penalty and high defence spending , meant that he would face Republican Jesse Helms , the right-wing conservative incumbent who , in his three terms in the Senate , had campaigned prominently against civil rights , federal spending and permissiveness . |
| 4 | Legislators who supported the right to abortion immediately took steps to negate the effects of the Rust v. Sullivan ruling . |
| 5 | With the court having recently begun to reverse key aspects of civil rights legislation and to undermine the constitutional foundation of the right to abortion , many liberals opposed the appointment of Thomas . |
| 6 | In August 1991 a US district judge had ruled that the statute violated the right to abortion guaranteed by Roe v. Wade . |
| 7 | The case brought under this law , Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey , involved a further examination of the constitutional protection of the right to abortion contained within the 1973 landmark ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 8 | With polls showing a clear majority of voters in favour of preserving the right to abortion , the issue promised to be particularly difficult for the Republican Party which was deeply divided upon the abortion question . |
| 9 | This implicit acceptance of the wider consequences of removing the right to abortion — opinion surveys showed consistent majority support for retaining the 1973 precedent — together with the emergence of the three-member centrist bloc on the Court , threw doubt on the widespread assumption that it was only a matter of time before the Court eventually overturned Roe v. Wade . |
| 10 | Progress of federal legislation to protect the right to abortion |
| 11 | Following the Supreme Court 's decision on the abortion issue in late June [ see pp. 38954-55 ] , the Senate labour and human resources committee on July 1 voted 12 to five to approve a bill designed to enshrine the right to abortion — currently derived from the beleaguered 1973 Supreme Court decision , Roe v. Wade — into federal law . |
| 12 | The right to abortion on psychological or social grounds had not been included in a more restrictive earlier draft . |