Not exact matches
In Vermont, the federal court is now hearing a case in which a man is refusing to enroll in Vermont Health Connect, a state exchange,
because a portion of his premium paid for
abortion services and this violates his religious convictions.
In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human
Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion
because of her public support for legalised
abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.
The governor says the plan is a «direct assault on New York values»
because it defunds Planned Parenthood and restricts access to
abortion and reproductive health
services.
That means states can no longer vote to defund Planned Parenthood
because some of its clinics offer
abortion services.
Still, politicians in 11 states have voted to block public funds from Planned Parenthood
because its
services include
abortion.
Those regulations will affect more than women's access to early
abortion care,
because most
abortion care providers offer a full array of safe, affordable, preventive health
services, including breast and cervical cancer screening, STD prevention and treatments, and birth control.
«We're in the news a lot
because of the
abortion services that we provide at many of our locations.
(CNN) House Speaker Paul Ryan was pressed Thursday at a CNN town hall on the Republican push to block Planned Parenthood from receiving federal health care dollars for
services provided to women
because the organization provides
abortions.
In Congress, Pence was at the forefront of a conservative effort to block any federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood
because the organization — which provides women with cancer screenings, counseling
services and tests — also provides
abortions.
«Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest and most trusted voluntary provider of reproductive health
services because we provide our patients with unbiased, medically accurate information about the full range of pregnancy options: parenting, adoption and
abortion — as well as access to birth control to prevent future unintended pregnancies,» added Foster.
Yet, in spite of these alarming statistics around cancer and STDs in New Jersey, on Monday Kim Guadagno stated that she would not restore funding for preventive reproductive health
services —
because providers like Planned Parenthood also offer
abortion services.
Some politicians claim that ending support to Planned Parenthood is related to
abortion services, knowing full well that
because of the Hyde amendment there has been no federal funding of
abortion services except for very narrow exceptions for nearly four decades — and that low - income women have been prevented full access to
abortion as a result.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and others have made it clear they want to see Planned Parenthood defunded
because the nonprofit organization provides
abortion services.
Because we obtained data on federally reimbursed Medicaid expenditures from CMS, the questionnaire for Medicaid agencies asked about state - only expenditures by the agency (expenditures for which no federal reimbursement was claimed) on family planning
services and supplies, sterilization
services and
abortion services.
They provide 59 % of all U.S. abortions2 and focus primarily on
abortion care, and therefore do not typically offer a broad range of reproductive health
services.3
Because specialized providers are not designed or often seen as sources of comprehensive or ongoing care — whether for contraception or anything else — it can be all the more challenging for them to devote limited resources to offering more integrated care.
The speaker was pressed at the town hall on the GOP's push to block Planned Parenthood from receiving federal health care dollars for
services provided to women
because the organization provides
abortions — even though
abortions are not covered by taxpayer dollars.
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.
For example, many specialized providers do not accept insurance; 4 one common reason is that many
abortion patients pay out of pocket
because they are unable or unwilling to use their insurance for
abortion care.5, 6 Specialized providers may also face unique hurdles to the extent that their model of care does not already include clinic - based systems or regular training for offering contraceptive
services.