Sentences with phrase «restriction of abortion providers»
Last week, over protests from thousands of Ohioans statewide, Governor John Kasich signed a budget into law without exercising his line - item veto to strike a Targeted Restriction of Abortion Providers (TRAP) provision prohibiting transfer agreements with public hospitals, a mandatory ultrasound provision, as well as a measure designed to block funds for preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers in Ohio.
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Update (Oct 28): New restrictions that could have closed one - third of Texas's abortion providers will no longer take effect Tuesday, after a federal judge ruled the bulk of the laws unconstitutional.
Such government restrictions, combined with clinic violence and harassment, have drastically reduced the number of abortion providers around the country and have made access to the remaining providers exceedingly difficult for growing numbers of women...» More.
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.
As a final example, in 2016, the Wisconsin legislature implemented yet another, relatively new type of restriction on safety - net family planning providers that also offer abortion: limiting these providers» drug reimbursement rates under Medicaid.
PPGP opened its new health center so that patients have one more trusted option in Oklahoma City and we will continue providing the excellent care patients have come to know and trust, in spite of some of the toughest medically unnecessary restrictions against abortion providers in the nation,» Planned Parenthood Great Plains President and CEO, Laura McQuade said.
Targeted restrictions against abortion providers (TRAP) that place unreasonable requirements on health care centers, slowly erode access to abortion, have nothing to do with improving the health or safety of women — and have everything to do with politics
Six of these states (AL, ID, IN, KS, MO and OK), all of which adopted restrictions on abortions performed later in pregnancy (see above), moved to require abortion providers to report a diagnosis when an abortion is performed at or beyond 20 weeks» gestation.
Yesterday, a 2 - 1 decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a case brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of several Texas abortion providers, ruled against Texas women and allowed abortion restrictions to eviscerate women's access to safe and legal abortion in the state.
Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP) and Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region (PPSLR) celebrate today's federal court opinion, which blocks medically unnecessary restrictions against abortion providers in Missouri.
Kansas City, MO — Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP) and Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region (PPSLR) celebrate today's federal court opinion, which blocks medically unnecessary restrictions against abortion providers in Missouri.
The landmark ruling blocks two unconstitutional Texas restrictions that threatened to close a significant number of abortion providers.
Those provisions are two of the most common types of targeted restrictions on abortion providers (TRAP):
If the Court had upheld Texas» anti-abortion restrictions, only nine abortion providers would have been left standing for Texas» 5.4 million women of reproductive age — and that's down from approximately 40 health centers before this dangerous law passed.
That «clinic regulation» they speak of is actually called targeted restrictions on abortion providers (TRAP) laws.
The real goal of TRAP restrictions is simple: shutting down abortion providers when they are unable to comply.
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.
Policymakers and advocates must continue to work to reverse restrictions on insurance coverage of abortion, to stop the incessant attempts by antiabortion policymakers to drive a wedge between the provision of abortion and family planning services, and to lighten the burden of abortion restrictions more generally on patients and providers.
Since the release of a series of deceptively edited videos in 2015 seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood, abortion opponents have mounted a sustained campaign to deny public family planning funding to providers who also offer abortion services (Recent Funding Restrictions on the U.S. Family Planning Safety Net May Foreshadow What Is to Come).