Sentences with phrase «other abortion restrictions»

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Perhaps the most politically volatile coming Supreme Court case is Whole Woman's Health v. Lakey, which will decide whether dozens of abortion clinics throughout Texas can remain open — a decision that probably will affect other conservative states that have in recent years imposed harsh restrictions on abortion clinics.

Earlier this month, the Texas legislature approved a loudly - debated package of restrictions on abortions in the Lone Star State; among other things, requiring abortion clinics to bring their facilities in line with surgical standards and banning abortions after 20 weeks.

Even many of those who favor lower taxes (or at least oppose higher taxes) and abortion restrictions don't know the Republican Party as anything other than a vehicle for upper - class interest group politics and white identity politics.

The cruelly ideological Reagan - era policy places restrictions on US funding for foreign NGOs providing abortion services, or even information about terminations or about other reproductive health services like contraception or HIV prevention.

«It could also open the door to challenges to other types of abortion restrictions,» such as 24 - waiting periods or rules about informed consent, she says.

The New York abortion - on - demand law passed in April 1970 is the most liberal with virtually no restrictions other than that the abortion must be performed by a licensed physician within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Further, any woman who has an unwanted pregnancy while attending TWU will face an unconscionable restriction on her autonomy in having to continue with that pregnancy or face expulsion or other discriminatory sanction for accessing legal abortion services.

«Arizona abortion restrictions backed by 16 other states»: In Friday's edition of The Arizona Daily Star, Howard Fischer will have an article that begins, «Officials from 16 states are lining up behind Arizona's bid to enforce its year - old ban on abortions at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy.»

Proponents of such restrictions are ultimately seeking to make abortion inaccessible for U.S. women, and so are seeking to shutter Planned Parenthood health centers and any safety - net health center providing publicly funded family planning services that additionally offers abortions (using other funds), or is affiliated with an abortion provider.

With concern escalating across the country over proposed restrictions on private health insurance coverage of abortion included in the health care reform bill passed by the House last week, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards joined Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) and other women leaders in denouncing this anti-women's health amendment passed by the House.

This would also force women to travel to a health center four times for medication abortion, given other existing restrictions in Arizona.

In addition to passing one of the most extreme abortion restrictions in the nation, years of hostile policies in Texas have left tens of thousands of Texas women without access to cancer screenings, birth control, HIV tests and other preventive care (read more HERE from the Guttmacher Institute).

Restrictions on abortion and other reproductive health care — including blocking access to preventive health care at Planned Parenthood — have very real consequences for women:

Moreover, the ever - increasing weight of these restrictions may strain providers» financial and staffing resources, making it all the more difficult to offer services other than abortion.

Insurance options for coverage of abortion or immediate postabortion contraception are limited by legal and administrative restrictions — both those in force and others perceived or misunderstood to apply — and providers are often subject to additional scrutiny, red tape or rejection because of their affiliation with abortion care.

Eleven states (Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming) have adopted 17 other major abortion restrictions this year.