Sentences with phrase «blocking access to birth control»

Blocking access to birth control disproportionately affects Black women.

The bill would also block access to birth control, cancer screenings, STD tests and other care for the more than 5,500 Title X patients and nearly 2,000 Medicaid patients served by Planned Parenthood in Florida.

Florida, where extreme lawmakers passed a bill that blocks access to birth control and cancer screenings, and includes Texas - style medically unnecessary restrictions on safe, legal abortion that could shutter health centers;

In addition, politicians have taken action in numerous states to block access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other preventive care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office on Friday announced a coalition of state AGs from around the country had filed an injunction to block the Trump administration's rule change for access to birth control.

When Texas blocked patients from services at Planned Parenthood, there was a decrease in women accessing the most effective forms of birth control, and an increase in births among women who previously had access to the birth control shot — a situation that researchers attribute to the state's ban on Planned Parenthood.

Today the state of Texas took final action to try to block Medicaid patients from accessing preventive care at Planned Parenthood, including birth control, cancer screenings, and HIV tests.

In Texas, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that blocking patients from going to Planned Parenthood led to a 35 % decline in women on Medicaid using the most effective methods of birth control and a dramatic 27 % spike in births among women who had previously had access to injectable contraception through Medicaid.

President Trump just doubled down on blocking women from accessing care at Planned Parenthood — calling on Congress to bar Planned Parenthood from participating in ANY health care program, including Medicaid, HIV programs, Zika prevention programs, and our nation's only birth control program.

If we let Donald Trump and Mike Pence into the White House, they will block patients from accessing care at Planned Parenthood, ban abortion, punish women and doctors for abortion, roll back insurance coverage for birth control and other lifesaving care, allow businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people, and more.

We at PPAF fight back when anti-abortion politicians and their extremist allies try to outlaw abortion, take away access to affordable birth control, and block patients from care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

They both want to block more than a million people from accessing birth control and lifesaving cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood health centers ---- and they've both been willing to shutdown the government to do so.

A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that blocking patients from going to Planned Parenthood in Texas was associated with a 35 % decline in women in publicly funded programs using the most effective methods of birth control and a dramatic 27 % increase in births among women who had previously accessed injectable contraception through those programs.

Trump has claimed he'd be great for women while in the same breath pledging to block them from accessing essential care at Planned Parenthood — care like birth control, lifesaving cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and well - woman exams.

This bill goes even further, seeking to limit American women's access to abortion and no - cost birth control and blocking implementation of the groundbreaking provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

And any day now, the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s no - copay birth control benefit and the Obama administration's action to protect access to care at Planned Parenthood are likely to be on the chopping block.

This proposed rule couldn't have come at a better time, because, as we've seen, extremist politicians have made every attempt to block patients from accessing birth control and other care at their chosen health care provider — including Planned Parenthood health centers.

Paul Ryan and his out - of - touch allies — by a narrow vote of 217 to 213 — forced through their disastrous scheme to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and block patients from accessing birth control and cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood health centers.

Once again, bosses are trying to block women's access to birth control coverage.