Sentences with phrase «abortions after»

In addition to pledging to cut off federal funds to Planned Parenthood and support a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, he promised to make permanent the Hyde Amendment.

Tennessee enacted a measure to ban abortions after a fetus reaches viability, except when the woman's life or physical health would be endangered.

In 2012, she sponsored HB 2036, which not only threatens doctors with criminal penalties for performing abortions after 20 weeks, but also goes so far as to define pregnancy as beginning two weeks before conception.

The Georgia provision is partially in effect, a state court has ruled that the restriction can only be enforced on abortions after viability.

The videos reignited a long - standing debate over the use of fetal tissue collected through abortions, fueled efforts seeking to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, re-energized arguments over whether public money should support Planned Parenthood and became the subject of a Republican - led investigation on Capitol Hill.

These five states join Nebraska, which adopted a ban on abortions after 20 weeks in 2010 (see State Policies on Later Abortions).

The landmark Supreme Court decision permits abortions after the first 24 weeks of pregnancy if the fetus is not viable or the health or the life of the mother is threatened.

Urged by anti-abortion rights groups and Republican lawmakers to take up their cause, the Florida senator is mulling over introducing legislation to ban abortions after 20 weeks nationally — just a few days after he helped pass a comprehensive immigration bill that created waves among conservatives.

Eldridge notes Gibson's signing of a pledge to vote against any climate change legislation that would raise taxes, his support for a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks and his support for fracking as evidence of his true political colors.

For instance, she says, New York's law permits abortions after 24 weeks to save the life of the mother, but does not provide protections if the women's health is in danger.

While it didn't get as much attention as the (thankfully) failed vote by the Senate to ban abortions after 20 weeks in January — never mind that abortion that late in a term is both rare, and nearly always because the fetus has a catastrophic ailment — John Faso voted in favor of the same legislation in the House this past fall.

He said he supports a woman's right to have an abortion, but has voted to defund Planned Parenthood and to ban abortions after 20 weeks, a statutory definition of viability that many physicians place around 24 weeks.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee blasted Mr. Donovan earlier this month for voting for a bill that bans abortions after 20 weeks.

Astorino, who has said he is anti-abortion, also criticized Cuomo's proposal last year to strengthen the existing right for women to have abortions after six months of pregnancy when the fetus is viable outside the womb.

The legislation says credits may be used to buy only insurance that «does not include coverage for abortions,» with exceptions for abortions after rape or incest or that are necessary to save the life of the mother.

The House passed a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, a top priority of the anti-abortion movement, but the measure is widely expected to die in the U.S. Senate.

But it is also referenced in a recent Arizona legislative effort to prohibit abortions after twenty weeks, which includes the language, ««Gestational age» means the age of the unborn child as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman.»

But the list of bans is growing: On July 1, Mississippi will be the latest state to ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

For one, the judge allowed a «fetal pain» ban on abortions after 20 weeks to stand.

The bill criminalizes abortions after 20 weeks post-fertilization (with few exceptions).

In 2010, Nebraska became the first to ban nonemergency abortions after 20 weeks, based on research indicating that's when fetuses start to feel pain.

Traditionally, states have been able to pass laws that prevent or limit access to abortions after the point of «viability,» currently thought to be as young as around 22 weeks.

At times, it marvels at Carhart's willingness and determination to continue performing abortions after the murder of George Tiller.

(UPDATED) Federal judge blocks North Dakota's new ban on abortions after as few as six weeks of pregnancy.

Much of the pro-life community is excited over the passage last week of a bill in the Texas House of Representatives restricting abortions after twenty weeks.

He also called for changes to the law that allow abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, adding that the law is «wrong and it has to change.»

Just a few hours ago, the governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, signed a piece of legislation that outlaws abortions after 20 weeks.

They tend to propose that if you write a law saying, «No abortions after 22 weeks», that one day someone will use that to push the law back to simply say «No abortions».

Earlier this month, the Texas legislature approved a loudly - debated package of restrictions on abortions in the Lone Star State; among other things, requiring abortion clinics to bring their facilities in line with surgical standards and banning abortions after 20 weeks.

On the pro-life side, ban abortions after 20 weeks (with an exception for the mother's life) and make permanent the long - standing and bipartisan - crafted principles of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the direct federal funding of abortion.

I do agree that abortions after 21 weeks need to go because children have been born at 21 weeks and survived.

Just this week, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, signed a pair of new Kansas laws that ban abortions after 21 weeks of pregnancy and that require minors seeking to terminate pregnancies to get consent from both their parents.

But Kasich did sign into law a measure banning abortions after 20 weeks — another controversial regulation that could potentially brush up against previous court rulings, even though Kasich cited Supreme Court precedent for his veto of the «heartbeat» legislation.

Dawn Huckelbridge, director of American Bridge's Women's Rights Initiative, released the following statement in response to the US Senate's vote on a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and threaten doctors with jail time:

As for bills that would protect unborn children from abortion after twenty weeks, APP notes that «Hispanics are more likely to back the restriction than either blacks or whites, by a 39 point margin.»

Jeffes does not shy away from some of the most sensitive issues in this debate: abortion after rape, and when a disability is discovered.

[Source: «Susan Dudley, Ph.D. «Abortion After Twelve Weeks» National Abortion Federation 1996]

Many ex abortion nurses and doctors have come forward changing their views on abortion after seeing it firsthand.

She said that if Trump is elected, he promises to defund Planned Parenthood, appoint pro-life judges, and sign the Pain Capable Abortion Protection Act, which would ban abortion after twenty weeks.

(Even Sweden, the poster country for women's equality and liberal attitudes toward human sexuality, strictly regulates abortion after the eighteenth week of pregnancy.)

Normal laws prohibit abortion after the first trimester; birth control is well needed in order to prevent children from being born in to lives of poverty or lives of abuse.

Under Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), the states are powerless to prohibit D&E, since it is the most common method of abortion after fifteen weeks, and those cases mandate elective abortion until viability, and «health «indicated» abortion until birth.

I feel differently on abortion after the fact, buts thats a different discussion.

The House has already passed a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks.

Alina Dulgheriu, a representative for campaign group Be Here For Me, decided not to have an abortion after being handed a leaflet by a woman outside the clinic.

Indeed, about two - thirds of Americans would ban abortion after the first trimester.

A law forbidding all abortion after 14 days would have potential support from embryologists and ethicists, so it would be a solid basis for presenting to legislators.

They are used in making decisions about abortion after prenatal diagnosis.

Having an abortion after experiencing a traumatic birth (and especially after the birth trauma is related to child loss) is often even more difficult.

I thought a lot about my stance on abortion after my first loss.