The country will not be forced to legalise abortion, to lose control over taxation and will not have its neutrality threatened.

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He explained that no matter what the contract said, she couldn't be forced to have an abortion.

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The witness is one of six alleged victims in the case and, like one of the others, she claimed she was forced to have an illegal abortion in a back-room in Reading.

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As the world has struggled to strike that balance (consider the role that same-sex marriage and abortion played in the 2012 election) so the church has found itself forced to be a combatant in the great, ugly culture war.

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