I have to admit: I am feeling angry and scared about the future of
abortion access in this country.
These outdated abortion laws often mean that people have to travel outside of the state
for abortion access, even for emergency health procedures.
For instance, once you have an opinion
about abortion access, it is fairly difficult for movements to get people to change their views.
Here's everything you need to know about the case and how you can get involved in the fight to
protect abortion access (both in - person and online).
To gain support for issues
like abortion access, affordable birth control coverage, and inclusive sex education.
Daily Print Reporting: Carolyn Jones, formerly of the Texas Observer, for her deeply passionate and incredibly informative coverage of the ongoing attempts to
restrict abortion access in Texas
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.
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.
Abortion After the First Trimester Myths About Abortion and Breast Cancer The Difference Between Emergency Contraception and Medical Abortion The Emotional Effects of Induced Abortion The Medical and Social Benefits
Of Abortion Access Mifepristone: Expanding Women's Options for Early Abortion Roe v Wade: Its History and Impact Abortion Safety
This weekend, the pro-abortion group Women on Waves used a drone to deliver several doses of doctor - prescribed abortion drugs illegally to women in Poland,
where abortion access is limited.
Although he is a baptized Catholic,
promoting abortion access seems to be one of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's primary passions.
My own postgraduate research
into abortion access in Scotland revealed that although many individual Scottish politicians are seemingly unaware of the inequities in abortion provision, the Scottish government has previously considered the issue.
The new chair of the House Rules Committee came under attack for proposing a constitutionally questionable procedural maneuver to pass the controversial Affordable Care Act in 2010, refused to hold town hall meetings during the height of the Tea Party movement, and compared Republicans to Nazis during a fight
over abortion access in 2011.
But although she sees both equal pay and
abortion access as important issues — «Choice is really important to me; I'm at a loss for words at how strongly I feel about it,» she tells me at one point — they're not the key issues in her campaign.
At the other end of the scale, there was mounting pressure from doctors to
liberalise abortion access in the early stages of pregnancy.
A disability rights activist, Michael Carey, said he plans to submit signatures creating a Life + Justice Party that
opposes abortion access.
The part was written with Tomlin in mind and represented a chance for the consummate performer to work her textual resistance while normalizing and
de-marginalizing abortion access and reproductive choice (as Obvious Child did last year).
While there is growing awareness of how CPCs
hinder abortion access, the centers have a broader agenda that is less well known: they seek not only to induce women to «choose life» but to choose adoption, either by offering adoption services themselves, as in Bethany's case, or by referring women to Christian adoption agencies.
For example, in 2015, Planned Parenthood Global partners collected enough signatures to force the Nicaraguan legislature to consider a «citizens initiative» that calls for
increased abortion access — the first time in Nicaraguan history that this legal mechanism is being used.
In 2013, former Gov. Rick Perry pushed harder to
quash abortion access in Texas, signing a law requiring all providers to meet ambulatory surgical center standards and physicians to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.
The frequent change in U.S. policy on funding organizations that
provide abortion access, information, or counseling has caused vast confusion among foreign nongovernmental organizations working in the reproductive health arena.
«For decades, the global gag rule forced providers of women's health care in the developing world to choose between receiving family planning funding from the U.S. government and providing women
with abortion access, information or counseling,» said PPFA President Cecile Richards.
These restrictions — hospital admitting privileges and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) requirements — have
reduced abortion access in Missouri to just one operating licensed health center offering safe, legal abortion, forcing countless patients to drive hundreds of miles for health care.
Luckily, on August 4, 2014, a federal court blocked the requirement that abortion providers obtain admitting privileges at local hospitals — a victory for reproductive rights, but just one small battle in the larger war
against abortion access in the United States.
President's Budget Takes Two Steps Forward, But Steps Away From
Critical Abortion Access Questions, RHTP (April 10, 2013)
Just as women's health opponents have been so successful at chipping away
at abortion access, so too do they hope to erode access to contraception.
Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS), represented by attorneys from Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and joined by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), filed suit today in Federal District Court in Sioux Falls, SD, against a new law that severely
restricts abortion access.
Two months ago, two Gallup polls found increases in support
for abortion access and increases in people who say abortion is morally acceptable.
Everyone who cares
about abortion access should get ready to fight like hell with me to safeguard that access, and make sure everyone in this country still has access to the full range of reproductive health care.
We offer reproductive health care services including safe and
legal abortion access for all patients; supporting people of color, those with low incomes, and the LGBTQ + community.
Judge Howard Sachs» opinion means that PPGP and PPSLR will be able to
expand abortion access to four additional health centers across the state of Missouri while both organizations fight to permanently overturn these ideologically motivated restrictions.
GOAL: Fight back on attacks
on abortion access, support proactive policies protecting and expanding abortion rights, and rally support to create a climate with reduced stigma.
«It's too early to tell if we'll see an uptick in requests for IUDs as a result of the election,» said Dr. Raegan McDonald - Mosely, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, noting that the organization will continue to talk to women who come to them with questions about birth control and
abortion access in the future.
Roe v Wade was about giving women who will make the choice to have
an abortion access to safe and professional medical care.
But the decline in California, which is pro-abortion rights, and the decline in Texas, which has laws in place to restrict
abortion access, are comparable.
Thomas J. Kane and Douglas Staiger, «Teen Motherhood and
Abortion Access» Quarterly Journal of Economics (1996) Vol.
The BroadBanders» activities on - site at BHQFU will address non-art world topics like campus rape,
abortion access and the punk band Pussy Riot.