Sentences with phrase «abortion provisions»

That law passed two years later, but without the abortion provisions.

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.

In 2013 it ignored a recommendation to provide a national abortion service and opted instead to leave the matter of time limits to individual health boards, resulting in the continuing disparity of abortion provision in the country.

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos has said he won't hold a vote on the abortion provision and has since become a target of a NARAL radio campaign.

The coalition that supports a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate on Thursday launched a «day of action» aimed at promoting Republican opposition to the abortion provision in the Women's Equality Act.

In a statement, the groups pointedly note both Grisanti and Republican Kevin Stocker oppose the abortion provision in the 10 - point women's agenda.

IDC Sen. Jeff Klein attempted to put the abortion provision on a separate piece of legislation as an amendment, but the effort failed on a procedural vote.

«We expect to pass nine of the 10 elements of the Governor's women's equality agenda, however, we continue to oppose bringing the abortion provision to the floor,» said spokeswoman Kelly Cummings, in a statement.

Republicans balked at the abortion provision, which supporters contended codified the Roe v. Wade ruling in state law, but opponents said was a needless expansion of the current law in New York.

In yet another sign allies of Senate Democrats will be using the 10 - point women's agenda this fall as a political bludgeon against Republican candidates, Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York are blasting GOP hopeful Rich Funke for comments made on the key abortion provision in the measure.

McLaughlin said Duprey's support for the abortion provision has prevented the conference from taking a formal position on the Women's Equality Agenda.

Left unsaid is whether the PAC formed on Monday would help to fuel primaries against IDC members, all of whom back the abortion provision in the women's agenda.

Republican Senate candidate George Amedore in a Capital Tonight interview on Wednesday said he'd vote against the abortion provision in the 10 - point women's agenda, saying it goes further than what women's advocates claim.

The abortion provision has proposed by Cuomo was part of a larger 10 - point women's agenda the governor pushed in 2014, only to have the various planks broken up from the omnibus bill and approved in piecemeal fashion, save for the measure to bolster reproductive rights.

The state Senate approved the nine provisions, but the Assembly passed them as part of a larger bill that also included the abortion provision.

The NY Safe Act played a big role that is acknowledged by me, but what really sickened people was her support of NARAL's push to force the Abortion Provision legislation through, even at the cost of keeping Speaker Silver in power.

Addie Russell kept the corrupt Speaker Silver in place, in the hopes of passing the WEA legislation and ignored the feeling of many woman in NNY about the Abortion Provision.

Ironically now the new Assembly might pass 9 out of 10 of the WEA planks as a gesture of bi-partisanship — but never the 10th Abortion Provision which Addie Russell fought so hard to pass in the Assembly.

Ms. Miller single handedlt kept 9 0ut of 10 of the Woman's Equity Act (WEA) with her refusal and personal lobbying to keep all 10 «Provisions» bundled in the Assembly, preventing an up or down vote on each «Provision» separately, because to her the 10 «Provision'the Abortion Provision that included late trimester abortions was the most important right woman could win in NYS.

Addie Russell chose to manipulate Silver in the end, telling the Speaker that he couldn't unbundle the WEA Planks for separate up and down votes, which in the end Silver and Gov. Cuomo told her was necessary to pass the 9out of 10 planks, minus the Abortion Provision, after it was reconciled with the 9 WEA Planks that passed in the Senate.

The abortion provision failed in the coalition - led Senate, which passed the remaining bills as separate measures that is not compatible with the Assembly version.

But Democrats damaged some lawmakers and candidates by labeling the G.O.P. as hostile to women, claims that are rooted in Republican opposition to the controversial abortion provision of Cuomo's Women's Equality Act.

He reiterated some of those same ideas that he failed to achieve last year, including a Women's Equality Act but he did not mention in his speech an abortion provision that the act contains.

But the state Assembly went ahead and approved a previous version of the women's equality act that includes the abortion provision, plus the nine other measures, in one single bill.

3) Obama said that abortion provision in federal law would not be changed - the Senate version throws out the Stupak Amendment

They worry that if the abortion provision were to stand alone, it might not be approved at all in the GOP led Senate, where Republican leaders oppose the measure.

It was part of the larger, 10 - point Women's Agenda, which had stalled over an abortion provision GOP lawmakers opposed.

Democrats, who have a super-majority in the Assembly, have repeatedly passed the 10 - point proposal, but it hit an obstacle in the Republican - led Senate, which approved nine of the 10 measures, but not the abortion provision, arguing that it would increase abortions.

Senate Republicans, who run the chamber in a power sharing agreement with a few Democrats, say they won't put the abortion provision on the floor for a vote.

«Elections have consequences,» said Hochul said, who said the Senate «does not see fit» to include the abortion provision at this time.

Other groups seeking exemptions from donor disclosure include the New York Civil Liberties Union, which often defends controversial acts of free speech, and the entire coalition of women's groups that backed Governor Cuomo's Women's Equality Act, which includes the abortion provision.

On Wednesday, the justices will hear a Texas case that could affect abortion provision across the country.

These chapters are dedicated to promoting the education of medical students and residents around reproductive health and family planning, including abortion provision.

Not exact matches

He agreed with me about the «basic immorality of the administration's rule» — that to whomever it applied (i.e., all the not - exempted), it would put the legal authority of the federal government behind the mandatory provision of early - stage pharmaceutical abortions.

Even If the due - process provision calls on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.

The Abortion Act has a clear provision to respect the conscience of staff: «No person shall be under any duty, whether by contract or by any statutory or other legal requirement, to participate in any treatment authorised by this Act to which he has a conscientious objection.»

By creating a blanket requirement for all fetal death experiences ranging from miscarriage to abortion (as opposed to making these provisions an option), this bill attempts to force women into a belief they may not espouse.

Our Archbishop has stated: If the provisions for contraceptives and abortions are not removed, the Archdiocese will no longer provide health insurance benefits to any of its employees, including over 1800 school teachers.

abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.

(32) In its discussion of EU member states» foreign development assistance programs, it contains commendable and strongly - worded calls for the end of forced abortions and sexual violence, and urges member states to work for the provision of prenatal and maternal healthcare supplies, and care for HIV patients.

On the contrary, one enthusiast, admitting that such activity could be increased said that she didn't think that this was necessarily harmful - she spoke instead of the value of removing taboos and seeing sex as «valuable and life - enhancing», an odd expression to come from one associated with provision of abortion.

Dreihaus, part of a group of Democrats that supported a ban on taxpayer funding of abortion yet — when this provision failed to pass — still voted in favor of the final health care reform bill, argued that, given his pro-life beliefs, the ad amounted to defamation.

Can we ensure that our objections to the provision of the death - dealing abortion pill in our supposedly family - friendly supermarket pharmacies is heard?

On the Democratic side, it's the Hyde Amendment — the legislative provision that prevents the federal government from directly funding abortions.

In response, Prime Minister Enda Kenny has proposed a bill that would «clarify» the abortion statute in Ireland, making a clear exception in the constitutional ban for cases of maternal health and including an unrelated provision allowing for suicide as a reason for seeking terminating the pregnancy.

February 18, 2011: The Obama administration revises «conscience clause» rules, maintaining the provision that allows workers to refrain from performing abortions but calling the Bush - enacted rule «unclear and potentially overbroad in scope.»

The change maintains the provision that allows workers to refrain from performing abortions.

The new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the existing Office of Civil Rights (OCR) enforces existing laws designed to protect conscience rights, including new provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that specifically allow providers and insurers to decline abortions and assisted suicide.

In 2007 the Committee used the same justification to attack Honduras» restrictive abortion laws, recommending «that the State party consider reviewing the law relating to abortion with a view to identifying circumstances under which abortion could be permitted, such as therapeutic abortions and abortions in cases of pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, and removing punitive provisions imposed on women who undergo abortion, in line with the Committee's general recommendation 24...»

The deconstruction of marriage, abortion on demand, legalization of marijuana, acceptance of pornography, expansion of gambling, provisions for doctor - assisted suicide — progressives either endorse or refuse to speak up against these and other policies and trends.