Sentences with phrase «abortion restrictions»
"Abortion restrictions" refers to laws and regulations that limit or control access to abortion services, often making it more difficult for individuals to have an abortion. Full definition
This makes 2013 second only to 2011 in the number of new abortion restrictions enacted in a single year.
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Here are all the states that have passed abortion restrictions since 2011.
Twenty - two states enacted 70 abortion restrictions during 2013.
Twenty - four of the 43 new abortion restrictions were enacted in just six states.
«It could also open the door to challenges to other types of abortion restrictions,» such as 24 - waiting periods or rules about informed consent, she says.
Research and reporting evaluating the effect of abortion restrictions in Texas found that health center closures resulted in significant burdens for women, including delay, increased travel distances, high out - of - pocket costs, and overnight stays.
States across the country have moved toward similar abortion restrictions in recent years, with Texas upholding its own «fetal pain» law despite state senator Wendy Davis's filibuster making national news in 2013.
In addition, some surveys show that here in the U.S., states with more abortion restrictions do in fact have lower abortion rates, suggesting legal changes may indeed have some effect.
A Trump administration decision to put new abortion restrictions on international health funding has prompted four non-governmental organizations and 12 of their local partners not to renew their requests for the aid.
The resistance starts now: Planned Parenthood, ACLU, and the Center for Reproductive Rights just filed lawsuits in Alaska, Missouri, and North Carolina over dangerous, unconstitutional, medically unnecessary abortion restrictions.
Despite the efforts of anti-women's health members of Congress, additional abortion restrictions did not make it into the final bill.
Boonstra HD, Medication abortion restrictions burden women and providers — and threaten U.S. trend toward very early abortion, Guttmacher Policy Review, 2013, 16 (1): 18 — 23.
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.
In the past few years, numerous other states have passed abortion restrictions similar to those in Texas, and a decision this term can sway how soon they will meet the Supreme Court.
The GOP campaign on jobs and listening to the American people and the first thing they do is hold us hostage for tax breaks then try push abortion restrictions to restrict federal support for abortion even though the federal government has already made it specifically illegal to pay for abortions with federal funding, then create budget cuts that lose jobs and all they have to say is «so be it»?
This likely accounts for Planned Parenthood's aggressive efforts to relax abortion restrictions abroad, in Africa and South America.
The measure passed with sixty - seven percent of the vote in a decade when abortion restrictions were being repealed all around the world.
Backed by the Trump administration, the US House of Representatives passed a bill today banning abortions after 20 weeks — the first step toward the federal abortion restrictions many pro-life advocates have hoped to see from their new president.
State lawmakers passed the second - highest number of abortion restrictions ever this past year, with 19 states enacting 43 measures in 2012 that limited access to abortion services, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
While the Committee may lack the authority to overturn state party abortion restrictions itself, its «comments» are used by state courts to justify such liberalizations.
The Florida state legislature — at least the key committees controlled by Democrats — refused in a special session called by the governor to consider abortion restrictions.
In fact, as noted last year by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the state's antiquated abortion restrictions are out of sync with the Supreme Court's decisions in Roe v. Wade and subsequent cases.
«Today's Supreme Court decision striking down Texas's unconstitutional and disingenuous abortion restrictions is a landmark victory for women's health and definitively rejects the state of Texas's spurious claims that their draconian restrictions protected women's health,» Schneiderman said in a statement.
Stargel a has served in the state Senate since 2012 and has been noted for her strict conservatism in supporting abortion restrictions and her support of charter schools.
With Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court gave states the right to legislate abortion restrictions during a woman's second trimester.
«There's already numerous abortion restrictions in place, as well as logistical issues around being able to get into the one clinic in Mississippi, as well as the limitations placed on that clinic on to what point can they provide abortion services,» Nash said.
This was picked up by the New Brunswick Court of Appeal in Morgentaler v New Brunswick, 2009 NBCA 26, where the Court granted public interest standing to a doctor who wanted to challenge abortion restrictions in the province.
«The Appropriations bill is an important step in the right direction when it comes to women's health — holding the line on deeply unpopular abortion restrictions and expanding access for Peace Corps volunteers.
This was an important step in the right direction, but there is still clear work to be done to reject any attempt to take away this right and to expand comprehensive access to reproductive health services by removing abortion restrictions altogether.
But this is the same frightening zeal we get from all of the GOP candidates — Trump last week voiced intentions to «punish» women who had abortions, and Kasich has signed 18 abortion restrictions as Ohio's governor.
As he pushed for tougher abortion restrictions this year, Pence said that he was fighting to protect unborn life.
GOP state Rep. Ross McGregor (one of the seven GOP Representatives who voted against the budget) denounced the budget for creating new abortion restrictions saying, «This is an area where government doesn't need to be inserting itself.»
«The science says abortion is safe, but time and time again elected officials are ignoring the facts and jamming through abortion restrictions under a false guise of «safety» when they actually endanger women.
In response, Planned Parenthood vowed to redouble its efforts to fight abortion restrictions across the country.
WASHINGTON — Today briefs for the plaintiffs were filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, the case challenging a New Hampshire abortion restriction that lacks an exception for medical emergencies when a young woman's health is at risk.
Planned Parenthood strongly opposes the new abortion restrictions announced today by the Obama administration in formal regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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).
Well of COURSE the GOP platform includes full - throated support for some of the most dangerous abortion restrictions in the country.
A federal court has blocked two Missouri abortion restrictions, declaring them unconstitutional.
On Saturday in Indiana, thousands showed up to protest abortion restrictions recently signed by Governor Pence, a law that also prompted women to call the governor in protest, earning the slogan «Periods for Pence.»
If the Supreme Court allows further abortion restrictions to go into effect, TxPEP researchers estimate that the number of abortions in the second trimester could nearly double.
Highlights from this weekend's #IStandWithPP events across the state, MoLeg weekly wrap - up, talking abortion restrictions on St. Louis Public Radio, and many opportunities to get involved!