«Last year, the Supreme Court held that a woman should be able to get safe
abortion care without needless delays or burdens and with respect and dignity.
Not exact matches
This is not about logic, it's teens doing what they want
without thinking about the potential consequences because they know they can get an
abortion and take
care of it.
A culture of life can not be produced
without love —
without care for children, and for the women who are forced into the positions that cause them to consider
abortion in the first place.
As time went by, we felt disappointed when we saw so - called Christians who choose to
care more about
abortions than the welfare of less fortunate but alive children, or about keeping a brain - dead woman alive while ignoring the massive health -
care crisis in this country that leaves millions of poor people
without any medical
care, even for preventable health catastrophes.
Examples of FRD include cases where a pregnant employee is told to get an
abortion if she wishes to remain employed, a less qualified parent
without children is promoted over a more qualified parent (typically, this one hits women harder) or a male state trooper is denied leave to
care for his newborn and told by his supervisor that his wife would have to be «in a coma or dead» for a man to qualify for leave as the primary caregiver.
In 2015, the contraceptive
care delivered by Title X — funded providers helped women avoid 822,000 unintended pregnancies, which would have resulted in 387,000 unplanned births and 278,000
abortions.3
Without the contraceptive
care provided by these health centers, the U.S. rates of unintended pregnancy and
abortion would have been 31 % higher, and the teen unintended pregnancy rate would have been 44 % higher (see chart 1).
Without Planned Parenthood health centers, many of these patients may have no other place to turn to access safe and legal
abortion — or preventive
care like birth control, well - woman exams, and lifesaving cancer and STD screenings.
Pence cosponsored a bill that would have allowed hospitals to deny
abortions to pregnant women who would die
without the
care — and the only exception would have been cases of «forcible» rape.
Planned Parenthood led the charge on several critical women's health and rights victories, including: the creation of the birth control pill and the development of the IUD; the legalization of birth control and
abortion care; insurance coverage for contraception; public awareness and availability of emergency contraception; ensuring that pharmacies fill prescriptions for birth control; and coverage
without co-pays of the full range of FDA - approved contraceptive methods.
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.
Those include prominent foes of
abortion, most
without medical background or health
care expertise, whose primary objective reflects no desire to see that as many low - income women as possible have access to basic health
care but only that Planned Parenthood be defunded as the visible incarnation of «the
abortion industry.»
For example, in most cases, we may not provide your medical information to your parents or guardians
without your signed written authorization when the
care involves pregnancy, contraception,
abortion, contagious or sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS / HIV, mental health
care, and drug and alcohol abuse treatment.
Under California law, minors can access reproductive health
care, obtain birth control, and receive
abortion services
without parental notification or consent.
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).
Sparked by the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton that legalized
abortion nationwide, federal and state governments have enacted laws that allow health
care professionals and institutions to refuse to provide services related to reproductive health
without facing legal, financial or professional consequences.