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How to use the word bodily in a Sentence?

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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

John Stewart Mill

added by Normando
6 months ago

New Mexicans in every corner of our state deserve protections for their bodily autonomy and right to health care, i’m grateful for the hard work of the Legislature and community partners in getting this critical legislation across the finish line.

Lujan Grisham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even after Kentuckians overwhelmingly voted against an anti-abortion ballot measure, abortion remains banned in the state. We are extremely disappointed in today’s decision, but we will never give up the fight to restore bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom in Kentucky.

Daniel Cameron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, it's ironic and really disturbing that in the last several in the last five years, I've received multiple awards for my work, fighting for and defending human rights, fighting for and defending religious freedom, and now over the past year, the government has threatened me with termination, excluded me from the workforce, discriminated against me and subjected me to harassment, for standing up for those very principles, for human rights and for religious freedom and for the right to bodily autonomy and medical choice.

Marcus Thornton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are a whole lot more who support bodily autonomy for mothers to make decisions about life and how many children they have and who they have them with and how to shape their future with or without partners, we've allowed a minority religious belief to curtail the rights of the majority of women in the country. I feel like I'm in the middle of a dystopian novel.

Rebecca Todd Peters

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Misinformation can be harmful because it may lead people to try to end their pregnancies in an unsafe way, potentially exposing them to serious bodily harm. While people can self-manage their abortions in a safe way, spreading misinformation about unsafe methods of abortion is incredibly dangerous.

Nisha Verma

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's really scary. We have to tell the patients,' we'll put you on a schedule, but we don't know what tomorrow holds.' And as a patient, that is absolutely terrifying to hear, as a provider, that's devastating. Turn somebody away ? That's awful. Say' I can't take care of you because the government says I can't' ? When I know that this is safe and that your bodily autonomy is first and foremost ?

Jennifer Lincoln

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The defendant was charged with assault causing great bodily injury, which isn’t a ‘strike’ under California’s three strikes law, when he could have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, which is a strike, a vehicle can be a deadly weapon under California law.

Neama Rahmani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Gascon’s statement is misleading for several reasons, the defendant was charged with assault causing great bodily injury, which isn’t a ‘strike’ under California’s three strikes law, when he could have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, which is a strike.

Neama Rahmani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When I heard there was this opportunity for a large contribution toward my education, but was something that still gave me kind of bodily autonomy … I became very curious.

Courtesy Kassandra Jones -RRB-

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are living in a much more surveilled culture than we were in 1972 and prior, so in a future where abortion rights are limited or there's not a federal right, people will be at risk for exercising their bodily autonomy, the consequences of those decisions are likely to fall hardest on Black, brown, Indigenous people of color.

Elisabeth Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Abortion is a human right, the political attacks on our fundamental right to abortion -- the right to bodily autonomy, the right to chart our own course in life, the right to protect our health and well-being -- are grossly unconstitutional, immoral, disgraceful and pathetic.

Meg Schurr

Found on CNN
2 years ago

BPA is a synthetic estrogen, and sex hormones shape nearly every bodily function during fetal development.

Leonardo Trasande

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The still shot shows the image of the firearm in the subject’s hands, at the best possible moment when the lighting was fully on him. That’s the moment when the officer had to make a split-second decision to assess the circumstances and to determine whether he felt like there was an articulable threat, that the threat was of imminent harm, great bodily harm or death, and that he needed to take action right then to protect himself and his partners.

Interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We found that gynaecological as well as other bodily examinations were conducted on South Asian women at British High Commissions in India, Pakistan [ and ] Bangladesh, as well as Heathrow Airport.

Evan Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The jury instructions were really centered around that term 'reasonable.' Defining the word 'reasonable.' And the jury instructions required this jury to look through the lens and perspective of Kyle Rittenhouse. Not Monday morning quarterback, not the jurors, or the court of public opinion in hindsight, what would he reasonably and what did he reasonably believe about the possibility of a lethal threat or harm and grave bodily harm?

Laura Coates

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They allow people to respond to threats of death, serious bodily injury, rape, and some other serious crimes with deadly force.

Eugene Volokh

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Gender inequality is the most insidious and pervasive impediment to bodily autonomy. It starts from the cradle, gender unequal norms and attitudes lead to power imbalances that restrict women’s decision-making ... (driving) the expectation that women and girls will yield to others in all aspects of their lives.

Natalia Kanem

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

James Scurlock thought James Scurlock was in danger of losing James Scurlock life or serious bodily injury.

James Scurlock

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily or mental and spiritual

John Stuart Mill

added by Normando
5 years ago

It was a startling situation, it was an accident, and fortunately, we're very happy that it did not result in serious bodily injury or death.

Pete Schulte

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This system has a big role to play in lots of bodily functions, including epilepsy, what the plants are doing is interacting with our own system, supplementing it, putting it right.

Mike Barnes

Found on CNN
6 years ago

What the hearings told me was that our country, our congressmen, value the reputation and the career aspirations of my male classmates, or men, of my assaulter, more than my bodily autonomy.

Madison Thomas

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Hey hey, ho ho, Judge Brett Kavanaugh has got to go what the hearings told me was that our country, our congressmen, value the reputation and the career aspirations of my male classmates, or men, of my assaulter, more than my bodily autonomy.

Madison Thomas

Found on CNN
6 years ago

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