Sentences with phrase «abortion providers laws»

Bills like HB 57 are called Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers laws.

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Each year, more Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider (TRAP) laws are introduced into state legislatures to further restrict medical professionals from providing safe, legal abortions.

At his sentencing today, Scott Roeder - the man who killed Kansas abortion provider George Tiller last year - gave a long, scriptural - laden defense of the slaying, arguing that he was protecting unborn children and obeying a higher law by killing the doctor.

Obama rescinded the ban on federal funds for overseas abortion providers and signed a healthcare law that many conservatives say subsidizes abortion, though the law's supporters say it respects the federal ban on abortion funding.

A recent law prohibits federal funds from paying for most abortions, but Planned Parenthood — which, among other services, is a major abortion provider (3 percent of their services are abortions)-- has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding — legally, much of that can not be used on abortions.

One possible step forward is that abortion providers — as long as they are legally allowed in this country — should have to be independent corporations that only perform abortions and receive no federal funding, with regular inspections and investigations both financial and health - related, and the passing of new laws which more strictly regulate their practice.

Planned Parenthood has also faced ongoing efforts by some states to limit the government funding the abortion provider receives through Title X and Medicaid, as well as state laws restricting abortion.

Update (Oct 28): New restrictions that could have closed one - third of Texas's abortion providers will no longer take effect Tuesday, after a federal judge ruled the bulk of the laws unconstitutional.

Trump has appointed a pro-life Supreme Court justice, banned federal dollars from funding abortion overseas, and signed a law allowing states to withhold funding for abortion providers.

The new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the existing Office of Civil Rights (OCR) enforces existing laws designed to protect conscience rights, including new provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted suicide.

The 2011 law requires providers to stick to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines for abortion by medication.

Instead of protecting women, the brief states, the law jeopardises women's health by restricting access to abortion providers.

Second, President Obama signaled his intention to repeal a rule promulgated in the last days of the Bush administration that codified previous law ensuring that no health care providers at institutions receiving federal funds should be discriminated against for refusing to participate in abortion or sterilization procedures.

In states like Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) have forced ridiculous rules onto clinics, doctors and patients to ultimately diminish the total number of abortion proAbortion Providers) have forced ridiculous rules onto clinics, doctors and patients to ultimately diminish the total number of abortion proabortion procedures.

The film's nationwide release, timed for social impact, comes just as the U.S. Supreme Court takes on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the landmark case that will determine the constitutionality of «TRAP» (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws.

This Saturday night, Sexy Beast, A Benefit for Planned Parenthood will honor Emmy - nominated director Dawn Porter, whose feature new documentary Trapped follows reproductive health clinics struggling to stay open in the face of nearly 300 TRAP laws (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers).

Following a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that allowed the immediate enforcement of a state law blocking women from getting services from one - third of abortion providers in the state, reproductive health care providers have taken their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

First, the state moved to ban Planned Parenthood health centers from participating in the Women's Health Program, based solely on the fact that these centers were associated with other sites where abortions were provided; Planned Parenthood health centers had been serving about four in 10 women in the program statewide, and some sites served as many as eight in 10 women within their service areas.22 The Obama administration made clear that Texas» action violated federal law by discriminating against qualified providers.

In addition, laws adopted in Louisiana and Oklahoma require abortion providers to make the fetal heartbeat audible to the woman prior to an abortion.

Arizona, for example, passed a law in 2016 that allows the state's Medicaid program to exclude any provider that receives any type of public funding and also provides abortion, or is affiliated with a provider that does so.

Last week, over protests from thousands of Ohioans statewide, Governor John Kasich signed a budget into law without exercising his line - item veto to strike a Targeted Restriction of Abortion Providers (TRAP) provision prohibiting transfer agreements with public hospitals, a mandatory ultrasound provision, as well as a measure designed to block funds for preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers in Ohio.

The law also imposes certain restrictions on abortions and abortion providers.

Furthermore, the Obama administration has vehemently rejected states» attempts to deny Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood and other providers associated with abortion, most prominently in an April 2016 letter to state officials.5, 6 The letter made clear that such efforts are in violation of federal law, which guarantees enrollees a free choice of qualified providers for family planning care.

Ted Cruz supported the Texas bill HB2, the Texas anti-abortion law that has already shut down more than half of the abortion providers in the state and has forced some women to wait as long as 20 days, drive hundreds of miles, and make multiple trips to access safe, legal abortion.

Signed into law by Governor Brewer on May 5, this bill disqualified Planned Parenthood from being an AHCCCS provider because they provide safe and legal abortions.

«From the beginning, this relentless campaign has been about one thing: antiabortion extremists who will do anything — lie, twist facts, villainize providers, and even reportedly break the law — in their quest to ban abortion and block millions from accessing basic reproductive health care,» she said in a statement to The Washington Post.

The law also seems to prohibit any type of third - party entity under contract with the state from entering into its own, separate contract with an abortion provider.

The new law in Virginia also requires providers to give women the option to hear a fetal heartbeat in advance of having an abortion.

In 2013, politicians in Ohio passed a new «catch - 22» law forbidding public hospitals from entering into such an agreement with an abortion provider, even though they can enter into such agreements with any other facility.

The Arizona legislature recently enacted a law requiring abortion providers to follow an outdated FDA protocol for medication abortion that is more than 15 years old — and the governor signed it just days after the FDA updated its protocol.

In Arizona, the legislature has amended state law to require that providers follow the regimen outlined on the old label for medication abortion, regardless of scientific evidence and the new FDA - approved label.

If the Court had upheld Texas» anti-abortion restrictions, only nine abortion providers would have been left standing for Texas» 5.4 million women of reproductive age — and that's down from approximately 40 health centers before this dangerous law passed.

That «clinic regulation» they speak of is actually called targeted restrictions on abortion providers (TRAP) laws.

It is already against federal law to prevent Planned Parenthood or other health care providers from participating in Title X simply because they also provide abortion.

It is already against federal law to prevent health care providers from participating in Title X because they also provide abortion.

First, millions of people have gained health insurance coverage as a result of the ACA, and the uninsured rate among women of reproductive age fell by more than one - third over the first two full years of the law's implementation.7 With increasing numbers of their clients obtaining health insurance, abortion providers — and specialized providers in particular — may have new incentives to establish relationships with insurers.