Sentences with phrase «given access to abortion»

Given access to abortion or gene therapy the decision could be made to eliminate this fault of nature.

Not exact matches

Obviously, so the argument goes, if we want to cut teenage pregnancies and abortions we must have access to sexual health services — in other words, teenagers are less likely to get pregnant if they are using contraception; failing contraception, then we should give them access to the morning - after pill, which may be seen as preferable to a twelve - year - old getting pregnant.

In her eyes, by running ahead of the people, the now - infamous 1973 decision gave «opponents of access to abortion a target to aim at relentlessly.»

Roe v Wade was about giving women who will make the choice to have an abortion access to safe and professional medical care.

The authors give us a hint: «Our expectations for EC's effectiveness were biased upward by an early estimate that expanding access to EC could dramatically reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy and subsequent abortion.

According to LifeSiteNews, the article makes a «pro-abortion case» but arrives at a «shocking conclusion:» «While abortion is still legal, it is increasingly difficult to access, thanks to the closing of so many abortion clinics and pro-life laws that help women by giving them additional information and alternatives.»

President Obama's contraception coverage proposal is drawing fierce opposition because it would require religious institutions to give their employees access to insurance plans with birth control and abortion coverage.

It believes it can cut this number by increasing access to family planning, addressing unsafe abortion and making birth safer by giving women access to skilled and well - equipped health workers.

«Our study gives further insight into the ways that the clinic closures due to Texas's restrictive law resulted in an undue burden on women seeking access to abortion care in Texas,» said Daniel Grossman, MD, an investigator with TxPEP and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at UC San Francisco.

The language around conception, she says, is a concern given the implications for reproductive rights and access to abortion care.

«The court had given opponents of access to abortion a target to aim at relentlessly... My criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum that was on the side of change.»

Congress is to consider a bill giving women access to legal abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.

This was their actual motive and it can be seen from anti-abortion politicians» response: These widely discredited videos gave politicians who have always wanted to ban safe and legal abortion the fuel they needed to try to cut funding for women's health programs and block patients from accessing services at Planned Parenthood health centers.

The anniversary of the benefit comes just as the Guttmacher Institute releases new data showing that giving women access to affordable birth control, through publicly funded family planning services, helped prevent 2.2 million unintended pregnancies in 2010, which would have resulted in 1.1 million unplanned births and 760,000 abortions.

Given reduced access to safe, legal abortion, the number of safe, legal abortions in the second trimester could nearly double in Texas.

This administration is carrying out a full - scale attack on birth control — eliminating insurance coverage for birth control, eliminating programs that help women with low incomes access birth control, and moving to prohibit health care providers from even giving women information about birth control or abortion.

Because of an increasingly restrictive legal environment and clinic closures across the country, abortion patients are facing new barriers to care, including the need to travel greater distances to access services.2, 20 Overcoming these challenges can be difficult or impossible, especially given that 75 % of abortion patients are low - income, and 59 % have already had a child and may have other family obligations.21 Whether a provider offers same - day contraceptive services is irrelevant if a patient can not access abortion care in the first place.

Fewer young women are giving birth, most likely due to improvements in the availability of contraception, access to abortion and improvements in sexuality education.