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Interestingly, 53% of women in that survey believed that life begins at conception, against 35% of men – not exactly "every sperm is sacred", but not too far off.
A recent survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a think-tank, found that 58% of abortion patients had used contraceptives in the month before conception, against only 51% in 1987.
In North Carolina, the incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan has gone after her challenger, the state legislator Thom Tillis, for imposing restrictions on abortion clinics through motorcycle-safety legislation, while Democrats in Colorado and Iowa have used Republican candidates' support for so-called "personhood" amendments, which would grant rights at the moment of conception, against them.
(See Plantinga 1976 for an example of one who makes use of the abundant conception against a quite different ontological background from Lewis's).
Panic strikes as you draft equations in your head mapping the time of possible conception against closing hours at various pharmacies, while bearing in mind the decreasing potency of the pill.
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And if there is no unanimity among social groups as to what situation to perceive as normal or exceptional, the sovereign decision will inevitably have to side with one group's conception of normality against that of another.
In retrospect, what is remarkable about Wolff's rationalism is that Wolff actively sought to defend his conception of reason against the rising tide of empiricism which at the time aimed to limit the role of reason as an instrument of human knowledge.
Concern has been raised that laws requiring the use of a medical facility for conception unfairly discriminate against those who cannot afford such professional medical assistance, or simply are unaware of the law.
In this work we have demonstrated an easy and fast in vitro methodology to screen candidate microbicide and spermicide surfactants in the struggle against conception and STD.
The use of male condoms greatly reduces the chances of acquiring sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV infection, and in addition provides protection against conception.
According to the Turkey Demography and Health Survey (TDHS) data, 23.6% and 50.1% of Turkish women between ages 40 44 and 45 49 respectively are not protected against conception [ 8].
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