This permits abortion in exceptional circumstances, such as where a woman's life is in danger.
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The second would have struck the GOP's outright opposition to abortion in cases of rape, incest or when a woman's life is in danger.
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"Neither one means failure is imminent or that your life is in danger or that you should be afraid to get in your car, " he said.
The prohibition, introduced by Democratic members, including Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Indiana, and Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, would exclude cases of rape, incest or if the mother's life is in danger.
Both the 12-week and 20-week laws include exemptions for rape, incest, and cases when the mother's life is in danger or the foetus is diagnosed with an extremely serious disorder.
Ireland's deputy prime minister, or tanaiste, Eamon Gilmore, reminded lawmakers Wednesday that a small number of pregnant women do find themselves in the awful situation where their life is in danger.
He then takes on additional risks as he tries to arrange the rescue of a German woman--his sometime lover, currently married to an aristocrat--whose life is in danger because of her anti-Nazi activities.
Most countries in the region - where Roman Catholicism is a dominant force - allow abortion only in cases of rape, when the woman's life is in danger or if the foetus is severely deformed.
And I can't imagine this seventeen-year old girl-- her life is really in danger.
There is a lot at stake because if we don't do our job right, or we miss something, someone's life is really in danger.
Israel's minister of finance, Silvan Shalom, a member of Mr Sharon's policymaking inner cabinet, says reassuringly that Mr Arafat's own life is not in danger.
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Abortions in Pennsylvania are illegal if not performed by a licensed doctor and if done past the 24th week of pregnancy if the mother's life is not in danger.
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Abortion is only allowed in the case of rape or when the life of the woman is in danger.
But, to the dismay of some anti-abortion campaigners, that change would give a higher priority to the mother's life if she is in danger (other than from a suicide threat) than to a fetus's right to life.
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Switzerland: Abortion is illegal, unless the life of the pregnant woman is in danger.
After more than a decade of exposure to this life, Farmer not only feels trapped, but he is in danger of losing both his marriage and his sanity.
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"The only reason we don't have more tales of people in grave danger and more loss of life is because everybody heeded the governor's instructions, the mayor's instructions, the parish president's instructions to get out of town, " Chertoff said at a news conference with Jindal.
Here it is the humble controller that has lost its wire in favor of charging, and is in danger of becoming the bane of family life.
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The weakness and the stubbornness you are showing in this crisis is an immediate danger for Gilad's life and health.
He is challenging the legal bid to obtain the transcripts, claiming it will put his life in danger.
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River levels have subsided and now just one "severe" flood warning - meaning a threat of "extreme danger to life and property" is posed - applies to parts of the River Eamont in Cumbria.
Yet, despite this fantastic success rate, kids are now in danger of facing this disease without this life saving drug all because manufacturing the medicine is no longer as profitable for the pharmaceutical companies as it once was.
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