Sentences with phrase «reproductive health access»
Nominations to courts and federal agencies also play a key role in reproductive health access, therefore Planned Parenthood Action Fund takes positions on some nominations as an additional consideration to a member's legislative record.
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That's why the Sierra Club's Global Population and Environment Program will be advocating for population and reproductive health access to support sustainable development.
«The Senate should stand with the millions of Americans who support reproductive health access for all, instead of embracing divisive policies that puts people's health at risk.
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«We need to work together to break down barriers to care and information for the millions of people desperate to take ownership of their sexual and reproductive health, and tackle disparities in health care access and outcomes.»
Under Goal no. 3, which is about global health, I note a need to «achieve universal health coverage,» as well as to «ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health - care services.»
The new measure is aimed at giving poor women in particular access to reproductive health services.
If Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gets his way, some millions of Filipino women could soon have access to free birth control and other reproductive health - related services.
When I heard Hillary Clinton's statement at the recent 2015 Women in the World Summit that «Deep - seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed» for the sake of giving women access to «reproductive health care and safe childbirth,» at first I was confused.
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.
The committee opinion sought to «maximize accommodation of an individual's religious or moral beliefs while avoiding imposition of these beliefs on others or interfering with the safe, timely, and financially feasible access to reproductive health care that all women deserve.»
Similarly to Slovakia (2008), «The Committee recommends that the State party adequately regulate the invocation of conscientious objection by health professionals so as to ensure that women's access to health and reproductive health is not limited.
Ashley at Let Me Entertain You is concerned about women's rights and wrote yesterday about a proposed regulation by the Department of Health and Human Services «that could seriously undermine access to basic reproductive health services, including birth control and abortion.&Health and Human Services «that could seriously undermine access to basic reproductive health services, including birth control and abortion.&health services, including birth control and abortion.»
RESOLVE «The National Infertility Association, established in 1974, is a non-profit organization with the only established, nationwide network mandated to promote reproductive health and to ensure equal access to all family building options for men and women experiencing infertility or other reproductive disorders.»
The Sustainable Development Goals include ensuring access by infants to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food (2.1); ending all forms of malnutrition and achieving targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age (2.2); addressing the nutritional needs of lactating women (2.2); reducing neonatal mortality (3.2); ensuring access to reproductive health - care services (3.7); and recognizing and valuing unpaid care provided by women and girls (5.4).
The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.
Gender inequality inhibits women and girls from effectively understanding, accessing and utilizing reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) services.
«More especially, scaling up, and integrating HIV with sexual and reproductive health services, such as the various education and information platforms, condom programming and access to contraceptive services.»
Supporters of abortion and reproductive rights expect to renew an effort to approved measures like the Reproductive Health Act and expand access to contraceptives as Donald Trump's presidency looms next year.
I further believe that women should have access, funding, and education with regard to their reproductive health and therefore I will advocate for and defend organizations like Planned Parenthood.
Doran also said that she knows that everyone from children to the newly retired should have access to a doctor when they need it and that's why she supports a single - payer health care system, as well as guaranteeing women's reproductive rights.
«These women are leading the fight to protect middle class families by raising the minimum wage, ensuring equal pay for equal work, protecting funding for Planned Parenthood, women's health care access, and reproductive rights,» Matthews said of the endorsements in a statement.
The AHCA would also defund Planned Parenthood, strip away access to reproductive health services, and deny low - income New Yorkers tax credits used to lower insurance costs.
«Chris Gibson has consistently taken votes to undermine and threaten women's health and to limit access to affordable reproductive health care for low - income women.»
The governor says the plan is a «direct assault on New York values» because it defunds Planned Parenthood and restricts access to abortion and reproductive health services.
It was also to ensure that 90 per cent of young people in need have access to sexual and reproductive health services and combination HIV prevention options by 2020.
This collaboration works together to promote equitable access to high - quality and comprehensive sexuality education and reproductive health services.
«Serious candidates running for state - wide office respect New Yorker's beliefs in ensuring women's access to comprehensive reproductive health care services — including abortion,» M. Tracey Brooks, the president of Planned Parenthood Advocates, said then in a statement comparing Astorino to «radical statements of the national Republican Party» and saying his «position reflects his inability to represent the people of the state of New York.»
I'm proud to announce a series of actions to firmly secure access to reproductive health services in New York State.
«These regulatory actions will help ensure that whatever happens at the federal level, women in our state will have cost - free access to reproductive health care and we hope these actions serve as a model for equality across the nation,» Cuomo said.
The push from the state Democratic Committee is expected to focus on issues that include sexual harassment, domestic abuse and abortion rights as well as access to reproductive health services.
Conlin went on to cite Democratic AG contender Eric Schneiderman's record on choice, saying he has «made it clear in word and deed that he supports a woman's right to access reproductive health care.»
Access to safe family planning options not only allows women to become more economically productive but would also result in a 75 % decline in unintended pregnancies, unplanned births and induced abortions in developing regions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive justice and sexual health research institution.
«The people of District 16 have been fortunate to be represented by Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, who has long been an advocate for access to all reproductive health care and a true champion for women's rights.»
Schneiderman said the measure «threatens to slash essential health care services for millions of New Yorkers who need them the most» and would unconstitutionally «deny women access to reproductive health care.»
She called for the creation of a safe and supportive environment for adolescents to access appropriate information on sexual and reproductive health.
Noam supports family planning and access to reproductive health care, and he understands that strong, happy families are the backbone of successful communities.»
Certainly not Andrew Mitchell, the International Development Secretary, who made the improvement of «sexual and reproductive health rights, including access to modern family planning methods and promoting women's choice, in the developing world» one of the government's «top priorities».
«I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.»
Further research on the access to and use of reproductive health care by lesbian and bisexual women is vital to understanding health disparities in the U.S.,» said Blanchfield.
The global gag rule primarily affects the delivery of contraception and other reproductive health services, because it is forcing clinics that offer women access to contraception, counseling, and vital maternal health services to cut back their operations or to close.
Worldwide, maternal mortality fell by 43 % in the 25 - year period, thanks to access to better - quality health services during pregnancy and childbirth, and to sexual and reproductive health services and family planning, they said in a report in The Lancet.
«The key factors are the effects of increasing female education on lowering birth rates in developing countries, and the health target that includes universal access to reproductive health services,» says IIASA population researcher Samir KC, who also worked on the study.
«In an increasingly globalised world a working knowledge of reproductive health during conflict allows clinicians to approach subjects sensitively with women, building a relationship of trust and understanding, allowing women to gain access to services they need.
With support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the three - year project will empower developing counties to advocate for universal access to reproductive health as a critical component in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in health through increased funding, an improved policy environment and increased visibility for family planning at the local, national and global levels.
Around 20 million women in the U.S. today lack access to reproductive health and family planning services.
The Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) released a study on the state of women's reproductive health in Texas, and found that due to lack of access to clinics and poverty, 22 % of women surveyed had self - induced or attempted to self - induce abortions.
Author Madeleine Somerville argues that access to basic reproductive health services would help women around the world take greater ownership over their bodies and in turn ease the overpopulation crisis that's spurring climate change.
Dr. Richard Schmidt, M.D. is a Medical Advisor to EmbraceHer, an organization that seeks to mobilize access to reproductive health education.
(b) empowering women, families, and communities by increasing access to quality sexual and reproductive health education and counseling.
«It strengthens the case for all women of reproductive age having greater access to nutritional, education and lifestyle support to improve the health of the next generation, and to reduce the risk of the conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, which often follow obesity.»