Preventing an unwanted pregnancy can literally cost pennies, and abstention advocates would argue it costs nothing.
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Thus far the coalition parties have finessed their differences by fudge, abstention, and creative ambiguity.
Over that period, the abstention rate has varied from 19.6% to a dispiriting 63%.
He saw this latest proposition seemingly breeze through yesterday by a vote of eight-to-zero, with one abstention.
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The US's abstention from the vote on Resolution 1860 is a stunning statement of hostility toward Israel.
The failure to vote or an abstention has the same effect as a vote against the proposed combination.
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But the toughest condemnation, in the form of a Security-Council resolution, needs China's support, or at least abstention.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, will make much of Lebanon's abstention and the No votes of Brazil and Turkey.
One is to heal relations with the United States, which were damaged by Canada's abstention from the Iraqi war.
It was approved on Thursday by 18 votes to 10, with one abstention.
Abstention in Chile's national elections has been rising, even though voting is compulsory.
The Council then adopted the text by 12 votes in favour to 2 against (Brazil, Turkey), with 1 abstention (Lebanon).
Earlier this month, councillors voted to retain the title, with unionists voting against, and nationalists, with one abstention, voting in favour.
They talk of the smoking-habit and the swearing-habit and the drinking-habit, but not of the abstention-habit or the moderation-habit or the courage-habit.
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While Olmert presents the US's abstention in the vote as a major diplomatic victory for Israel, in truth it is a stunning defeat.
As almost every nation on Earth embraced its rapid spread around the globe, the U.S. remained one of the few, resolute outposts of abstention.
While the crisis primarily afflicts Greece, where French and German banks have most at stake, this abstention will be wearily tolerated on the continent.
The prime minister is thought to favour a "no" vote but some others around the cabinet table either support President Abbas or would prefer abstention.
Of the remaining Conservative MPs, 127 were in favour, 35 did not vote, and five registered an abstention by voting both in favour and against.
Abstention among the employed was 20% and among the unemployed 33%.
The first was removed when Islington councillors approved the scheme last December, voting 34-7 in favour, with one abstention, on granting permission for the new stadium.
Explaining America's abstention, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the resolution was a step forward but her government wanted to see the outcome of mediation efforts.
By the same token, his St Malo initiative for an autonomous European defence capacity was in part a way to compensate for Britain's abstention from monetary union.
First, the far-right came up high, at 17.9%, most of which should vote Sarkozy in the second round, 60% allegedly, the rest being devided between Hollande and abstention.
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The second aspect of the US abstention on Resolution 1860 that is deeply disturbing is the fact that Israel's leaders say they were taken completely by surprise by the move.
Amber Ludwig objects to the specific designation because she has objected to profanity since becoming pregnant, but really there is no other word, and her objection is really just an abstention.
Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration's Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee decided by a vote of 11 to 1, with one abstention, that Merck's Mevacor should not be sold over the counter.
The 62-year-old, who was elected as MP for the constituency in 1997, never took his seat in the House of Commons, in line with his party's policy of abstention from Westminster.
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