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Working to protect abortion access across the country.
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Rep. Louise Slaughter, who has never been one for mincing words, particularly when it comes to women's issues, likened Republican efforts to limit access to abortion in the budget battle to «an old German Nazi move,» and accused her colleagues across the aisle of wanting to «kill women.»
«This is a win for Texans & women across the country who need access to abortion,» tweeted Planned Parenthood shortly after the decision was announced.
Across the country, lawmakers like Nixon in a growing number of states are fighting back dangerous restrictions and championing measures to expand and protect access to birth control, basic preventive care, and abortion.
With so many states across the country moving to block access to Planned Parenthood and ban abortion, we need a president who will fight for women.
«We know that young people across the globe remain extremely vulnerable to unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, and HIV / AIDS, but are so often unable to access quality health care.
The continued attacks by extremist politicians in Washington on women's health are part of a dangerous agenda to roll back access to reproductive health care and ban abortion, leaving millions of patients across the country devastated by stripping them of the basic health care they need and deserve.
WASHINGTON, DC — As we near the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (January 22, 2013), Planned Parenthood stands with women across the country in reinforcing the importance of access to safe and legal abortion.
Excellence in Media: Cosmopolitan magazine, for their bold coverage and discussions of women's health and the attacks on women's access to safe and legal abortion across the country, both in their print and online editions
With the shortage of qualified abortion providers (there are no providers in 87 percent of U.S. counties and in 97 percent of rural areas), Landy and Darney have made an enormous impact in the effort to ensure that women across the country have access to the full range of quality health care.
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.
Together, these restrictions have dangerous consequences that ultimately block access to safe, legal abortion for many people across the country, with women of color, women living in rural areas, and women with low incomes disproportionately affected.
«Make no mistake: These are attacks from state legislators who want to end access to safe, legal abortion across the board.
What's more, by forcing the closure of health centers that provide safe, legal abortion across the state, they have forced women to wait up to 20 days or more for an abortion (if they can access one at all).
State legislatures across the country passed more than 60 anti-abortion measures in 2017, reflecting extreme ideologues» commitment to making it difficult, if not impossible, to access abortion.
«Under John Kasich's watch, Ohio politicians have single - handedly dismantled access to safe, legal abortion across the state, forcing health centers across the state to close.
Because of an increasingly restrictive legal environment and clinic closures across the country, abortion patients are facing new barriers to care, including the need to travel greater distances to access services.2, 20 Overcoming these challenges can be difficult or impossible, especially given that 75 % of abortion patients are low - income, and 59 % have already had a child and may have other family obligations.21 Whether a provider offers same - day contraceptive services is irrelevant if a patient can not access abortion care in the first place.
A proud announcement to start the rundown this week: We are NOT backing down in our fight to expand access to abortion, birth control, and reproductive health care across the country!
Politicians in Washington and across the country have made it clear that they are willing to sacrifice women's health in order to restrict women's access to contraception and abortion.
«In Peru, as well as in other countries in the region, anti-abortion extremists such as the Population Research Institute (PRI)... have used the fraudulent attack on Planned Parenthood in the US as an excuse to attack organizations like mine promoting access to safe and legal abortion across Latin America,» she wrote.