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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has made his new stance on abortion public: He supports exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, and thinks voters should decide the issue.
U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde's comment appeared to be a shift from his 2012 campaign, when he said he was "totally opposed to abortion."
Hovde told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last week he supports exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, and thinks voters should decide the issue of abortion.
The United States anti-abortion movement opposes induced abortion on moral and religious grounds and supports its legal prohibition or restriction. Social conservatives supported the overturning of Roe v. Wade and use the term "pro-life" as opposed to "pro-choice". [12] These beliefs are based on the belief of "fetal personhood".
The earliest citation for an abortion-specific sense of the term is a 1971 reference in the Los Angeles Times to "pro-life, anti-abortion educational programs". [2] The adjective pro-life seems to derive from earlier constructions involving the word life used by opponents of legal abortion, particularly the phrase "right to life".
South Africa: A 2003 Human Sciences Research Council study examined moral attitudes among South Africans: 56% said they believed that abortion is wrong even if there is a strong chance of serious defect in the fetus, while 70% said they believed that abortion is wrong if done primarily because the parents have low income and may be unable to afford another child.
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Third-party candidates Phil Anderson and Thomas Leager were seen as potential spoiler candidates for Hovde in a state that had voted for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. [2] This was the first time that Wisconsin voted for candidates of different political parties for U.S. senator and president since Democrat Gaylord Nelson was ...