The actions of the South Dakota legislature are a chilling reminder of the lengths to which anti-choice lawmakers will go to interfere in our most difficult and personal decisions. This bill contains an inadequate exception to protect a woman's life and no other exceptions -- not for rape, not for incest, not even to protect the woman's health. Clearly emboldened by President Bush's judicial appointments, South Dakota has passed dangerous and unconstitutional legislation that its supporters admit is a direct attack on Roe v. Wade. Rather than continuing these unconstitutional assaults that threaten to endanger women's lives and imprison doctors, these legislators should commit to enacting commonsense legislation to prevent unintended pregnancy.
Quotes about assaults (16 Quotes)
Unfortunately, many sex assaults occur because there's a breakdown in communication where people start consuming alcohol. You get two people together in a situation like that and an extremely dangerous outcome can occur.
Wolper has a track record of standing behind assaults on the Catholic Church. This has an odor to it I don't like, which is why I'll monitor it.
Alcohol, drugs, divorce -- that's what assaults our families,
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
If you look at bad decisions that are made as a result of consuming too much alcohol, from sexual assaults to property damage, we face that every weekend.
There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed a face deep within the human personality that is im pregnable to all assaults.
Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.
Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
In general in Virginia, you're looking mostly at transportation accidents. The other type of accident we see mostly is falls. We also recorded a certain number of assaults and violent acts.
Today the South is faced with fresh assaults upon its regime and its order of values. All the while it has known that what grudging respect it has obtained from the North has come because the South has maintained the standards of white civilization. It knows that if it were to accept without reservation the dictates of the Supreme Court, it might be turned into something like those 'mixed sections' found in large Northern cities.
Nationally, more than 80 percent of sexual assaults included alcohol consumption by either the victim or the perpetrator.
In every charge, in every count, she was an active participant in the sexual assault of these children. Even after her husband was arrested (on domestic violence charges), she never came forward and said anything about the sexual assaults by her husband.