Sentence examples for refuse to terminate from inspiring English sources
One of the bills, offered by Representative Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania, has a provision that would allow hospitals receiving federal funds to refuse to terminate a pregnancy even when necessary to save a woman's life.
Shoichi Nakagawa, the Japanese trade and industry minister, said his country would embark on unspecified retaliatory measures "should the United States refuse to terminate its illegal practice," The Associated Press reported.
A physician should not refuse to terminate an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy threatening the life of the mother, for example.
She blames her husband for refusing to terminate their sex life.
Doctors acknowledged that she was having a miscarriage, but over the course of three days, they reportedly refused to terminate the pregnancy and end her suffering because they could detect a fetal heartbeat.
The momentum for change on abortion laws has intensified since the Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar died from blood poisoning after a Galway hospital refused to terminate her pregnancy last autumn.
Catholic hospitals have refused to terminate pregnancies, provide contraceptive services, offer a standard treatment for ectopic pregnancies, or allow sterilization after caesarean sections (women seeking tubal ligations are then forced to have a second operation elsewhere, exposing them to additional risks).
Early in 1961, Kennedy refused either to terminate the planned invasion, which violated international law, or to commit the full force of American power, thus ensuring the failure of a dubious attack.
Judges have the right to refuse a request to terminate the guardianship if it seems unfounded or frivolous.
Among the life-threatening conditions under which an abortion would be permitted would be a threat by a woman to commit suicide if doctors refused a request to terminate her pregnancy.
The objective of the study, respondents' right to refuse participation and freedom to terminate participation in the study at any time was discussed with each study participant.
