Sentences with phrase «of abortion access»

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I have to admit: I am feeling angry and scared about the future of abortion access in this country.
Jackson: Documentary look at three women caught up in the issue of abortion access.

Not exact matches

«Brazil and other countries in Latin America are really good examples of what it looks like when you set up barriers to access for abortions,» said Mónica Arango, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
The combination of restricted access to abortion and increased Internet access has led to the rise of Do - It - Yourself abortions in the U.S., many of which look remarkably like the illegal abortions taking place in Brazil.
She also discussed some of the women's health and family policies that she would prioritize in the White House, such as paid family leave and access to birth control and safe abortion.
But the New York real estate tycoon, who once supported abortion access, has come under pressure from conservatives to prove he is truly one of them.
All this changed when the sexual revolution and the rise of feminism ushered in easy divorce, the expectation of a career outside the home for married women, ready access to contraception and abortion, and the gay - rights movement.
Well, if you look at the statistical analysis, you will find that as abortion became legal and safe, the rate of violent crime has dropped in this country — significantly and with a high correlation to access to safe and legal abortions.
The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).
Almost all of the coverage of the Lancet findings suggests that this decline in abortions correlates to increased access to contraceptives — for obvious reasons.
In Sweden, for example, an increase in affordable access to contraception and the presence of free contraceptive counseling have paralleled a substantial increase in the teen abortion rate.
It is just this illusion of sex without consequences, she maintains, that brought us to the point of needing widespread access to abortion in the first place.
Most of the countries where abortion is illegal also suffer from widespread poverty and limited access to contraception — huge drivers in the abortion rate.
The best way of testing this (putting aside ethical concerns for a moment) would be to conduct an experiment in which one group did not have access to confidential abortion and another did, and then we could monitor the differences between them.
This is very important because, although the remit of the Teenage Pregnancy Unit is to cut pregnancy rates, one of its main policy recommendations that it emphasises year after year is to provide youngsters with easier and better access to confidential abortion.
Our research is backed up by all the other academic papers which examine the impact of easier access to EBC on unwanted pregnancy or abortion rates.
If abortion is easily accessed, then it acts to alleviate some of the risks of having sex.
Even Anna Glazier, a health expert and a strong proponent of greater access to the morning - after pill, stated in early 2006 in an editorial in the British Medical Journal that greater access to emergency birth control has failed to cut pregnancy and abortion rates.
The response of the last government was essentially more of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.
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.»
The Connexions service, school nurse service and Healthy Schools standards are just a few of the many routes whereby inappropriate sex education or access to abortion and contraception may sneak in under the radar of unwary teachers and governors.
Those who are on the front lines of championing contraceptive access to reduce abortion in the developing world are having national impact among conservatives!
Lady O'Loan added her measures are not about reducing access to abortions or withdrawal of life - sustaining treatment.
Lader argued that since early abortions are statistically safer for the woman than childbirth, and since the morality of such abortions is a matter of religious and philosophical dispute, the state ought not to prevent women from having legal access to abortion services:
The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»
Given access to abortion or gene therapy the decision could be made to eliminate this fault of nature.
Catholic schools are being forced to make children aware that, without their parents» consent, they can access medical contraception and abortion services, (although we are allowed, kindly, to add our «opinion» of these activities).
The «gender equality» UN norm is inclusive of and inseparable from the other UN norm of «reproductive health and rights», which is itself inclusive, inter alia, of «safe abortion» and of universal access to contraceptive information and services by 2015.
Endorsing a man who publicly and privately promotes sexual promiscuity in hopes of reducing abortion is no less absurd than endorsing the candidate who promises increased access to abortion.
The Congress seems for the most part to agree with the media, if passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinics» Entrance Act» the act that narrowed the First Amendment rights of abortion protestors as an entire class of citizens» is any indication.
In Guttmacher's analysis, they found that the decline of abortions is because of the availability of effective, affordable birth control and the abortion restrictions that have limited women's access.
There is a fairly constant onslaught on the fundamental right to life — from Ireland with its proposed referendum on permitting abortion, to campaigns for increased access to abortion and euthanasia in many parts of the world.
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Unfettered access to abortion on demand has addressed none of women's true needs; nor has it brought dignity to women.
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.
Thus, the stage is already set for the creation of a positive right to die here that could, one dark day, subsume the religious liberty of doctors not to participate — as is occurring now in Canada, and afflicts pro-life doctors in Victoria, Australia regarding access to abortion.
Overturning a lower court's decision that ruled that the laws unconstitutionally limited access to abortion in the state, New Orleans - based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals judges wrote, «on its face does not impose an undue burden on the life and health of a woman.»
«As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a single - minded agenda: Take away women's health care, destroy Planned Parenthood, and block women's access to safe abortion care,» the Planned Parenthood Action fund wrote in a recent petition drive.
Traditionally, states have been able to pass laws that prevent or limit access to abortions after the point of «viability,» currently thought to be as young as around 22 weeks.
Experts point to a recent confluence of four main factors: rising access to sonogram technology, increased access to abortion, a preference for sons, and fertility decline.
However, the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Roe v. Wade indicates that the government can't put an «undue burden» on abortion access up to that point.
No one is being denied access to birth control or abortions, it's a question of who should have to pay for it.
Access to abortion and birth control were included among 1 of 16 values and principles guiding the grassroots rally.
«Abortion restrictions and clinic closures mean that patients may need to travel greater distances to access services,» said Rachel Jones, lead author of the study, in a written release.
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.»
State lawmakers passed the second - highest number of abortion restrictions ever this past year, with 19 states enacting 43 measures in 2012 that limited access to abortion services, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
In 2007 it urged Poland «to ensure that women seeking legal abortion have access to it, and that their access is not limited by the use of the conscientious objection clause.»
Because research looked at the years of 2008 - 2011, the Institute says that the falling numbers were not the result of recent abortion - restricting legislative measures; instead, they pointed to the overall falling birth rate and greater access to contraception.
But, of course, whether or not unlimited access to abortion is guaranteed by the Constitution is precisely what the great legal debate is about.
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