Sentences with phrase «access abortion care»

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.

In reality, this law harms women by making it more difficult to access abortion care.

It can be prohibitively hard for college students to access abortion care.

What you need to know about Arizona state laws regarding accessing abortion care; including information on minors and abortion law.

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And why on earth oppose access to birth control and reforms in the health care system when those will likely make the biggest difference in actually curbing abortions in this country?

If you want to make abortion safe, legal and rare, support women's rights, women's access to health care.»

Roe v Wade was about giving women who will make the choice to have an abortion access to safe and professional medical care.

«As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a single - minded agenda: Take away women's health care, destroy Planned Parenthood, and block women's access to safe abortion care,» the Planned Parenthood Action fund wrote in a recent petition drive.

The symptoms are so similar that an online abortion group which sells pills to women in pro-life countries instructs women who suffer complications: «If you live in a place where abortion is a crime and you don't have a doctor you trust, you can still access medical care.

they have access to free health care, free housing, free food, free births, free contraception, free birth control, free cash, free abortion, free phones,

The Committee recommends that the State party decriminalize abortion in Northern Ireland in all circumstances and review its legislation with a view to ensuring girls» access to safe abortion and post-abortion care services.

The new chair of the House Rules Committee came under attack for proposing a constitutionally questionable procedural maneuver to pass the controversial Affordable Care Act in 2010, refused to hold town hall meetings during the height of the Tea Party movement, and compared Republicans to Nazis during a fight over abortion access in 2011.

The plan's website says it does not cover abortion, sterilization, or artificial contraception, but adds: «As a member of Fidelis Care, you can secure such services through free access to the Medicaid program or through State Department of Health - contracted entities.»

it does not cover abortion, sterilization, or artificial contraception, but adds: «As a member of Fidelis Care, you can secure such services through free access to the Medicaid program or through State Department of Health - contracted entities.»

«An historic analysis produced during his first term in office demonstrated that wider access to emergency contraception could save the state almost half a billion dollars in health care costs by decreasing the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions.

«Serious candidates running for state - wide office respect New Yorker's beliefs in ensuring women's access to comprehensive reproductive health care services — including abortion,» M. Tracey Brooks, the president of Planned Parenthood Advocates, said then in a statement comparing Astorino to «radical statements of the national Republican Party» and saying his «position reflects his inability to represent the people of the state of New York.»

Blodgett said the GOP bill blocks people with Medicaid from accessing preventive care at Planned Parenthood health centers, including birth control and cancer screenings; undermines Essential Health Benefits standards, including maternity coverage; and imposes a nationwide ban on private insurance coverage of abortion.

Even with the Republican failure to repeal former President Barack Obama's health care law, Democratic lawmakers in some states are pressing ahead with efforts to protect birth control access, Planned Parenthood funding and abortion coverage in case...

«Our study gives further insight into the ways that the clinic closures due to Texas's restrictive law resulted in an undue burden on women seeking access to abortion care in Texas,» said Daniel Grossman, MD, an investigator with TxPEP and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at UC San Francisco.

«This definitely sets a very strong precedent for abortion rights advocates and will lead to courts striking down the sham laws that impose restrictions that go beyond what is needed to ensure patient safety, that are really aimed at closing down clinics and throwing obstacles in the way of women's access to abortion care.»

For Dr. Daniel Grossman, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California at San Francisco and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, if lawmakers want to curb abortion at a later stage, they should make it easier for women to access care in the early stages of the pregnancy.

While Little Woods hits on some of the most important issues facing our country today (health care, rural poverty, abortion rights and access, the opioid crisis), DaCosta commitment to focusing on characters first turns an important movie a deeply personal and intimate film.

These bills provide a roadmap for state policymakers seeking to fight government interference within the patient - provider relationship, promote women - centered approaches in the provision of abortion and other reproductive health care services, and enact legislation that emphasizes the need to expand access to abortion.

Today the women's health care providers who jointly filed suit last month on behalf of their patients have filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate an injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on October 28 blocking a Texas provision requiring doctors who provide abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital — a requirement that leading medical associations oppose and only results in women losing access to safe medical care.

The language around conception, she says, is a concern given the implications for reproductive rights and access to abortion care.

Members of the TWU community who violate the terms of the Covenant, including LGBTQ students and women who access constitutionally protected abortion care, may be subject to disciplinary measures and expulsion from the university.

During his most recent term, he has sponsored or co-sponsored a number of bills designed to reverse state - mandated barriers to abortion access and to provide accurate, accessible health care for Arizonans.

Just in the last two months, Arizona has taken two CAP bills all the way to the Supreme Court, where they were refused review: HB 2036, the 20 - week abortion ban, and HB 2800, which attempted to deny women with Medicaid coverage the right to access health care services at a provider of their choosing.

Planned Parenthood Texas Votes (PPTV) works to foster and preserve a social and political climate in Texas favorable to full reproductive health care access including abortion, through electoral activity, legislative advocacy and grassroots organizing, to promote and protect the mission of Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas.

Planned Parenthood Texas Votes is a statewide advocacy organization that will engage supporters of women's health to fight to protect and expand women's access to preventative and reproductive care, including abortion.

The last election made clear that Americans reject government interference into their personal health care decisions and Planned Parenthood Action Fund continues to oppose the continuation of several deeply unpopular policy riders that restrict access to abortion.

The 18th district is currently represented in the Senate by Jeff Dial, whose voting record belies a lack of support for contraception access — his vote for HB 2599 helped lay the groundwork to deny state Medicaid recipients the right to receive preventive health care and birth control from Planned Parenthood — as well as his opposition to abortion — as illustrated by his vote in favor of SB 1324, which put severe restrictions around the use of medication abortion, which don't even comply with FDA regulations.

Research is needed to test interventions that improve knowledge and practice in providing medication abortion, and the Indian Government at the national and state level needs to prioritise improving policies and practice to increase access to comprehensive abortion care and quality contraceptive services that prevent unintended pregnancy.

It includes information about unsafe abortion incidence in specific countries and in the developing world in general, abortion service provision, access to postabortion care and barriers that adolescents face in accessing safe abortion services.

The Tennessee State Legislature has doubled down on efforts to restrict a woman's right to safe, legal abortion and equal access to affordable reproductive health care.

Through this one bill, Florida would strip many women of their access to basic health care, such as cancer screenings, birth control, and abortion.

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.

Up and down the ballot, women's health champions are facing opponents who threaten to take us backward on access to birth control coverage; backward on access to safe, legal abortion; and backward on access to care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

Planned Parenthood is committed to defending full access to reproductive health care including family planning services, abortion care, and comprehensive sexuality education.

Further limiting their access to health care puts them at risk of harm resulting from unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion and childbirth, and sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV / AIDS.»

Planned Parenthood believes every woman should have access to the full range of reproductive health care services, including access to safe and legal abortion.

If we let Donald Trump and Mike Pence into the White House, they will block patients from accessing care at Planned Parenthood, ban abortion, punish women and doctors for abortion, roll back insurance coverage for birth control and other lifesaving care, allow businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people, and more.

We work at the local, state and federal level to advocate for medically - accurate sexuality education, contraceptive equity, patient safety, abortion rights, and affordable access to reproductive health care for all people.

«The best way to prevent unintended pregnancies, reduce the number of abortions, and promote healthy families is to invest in family planning programs like Title X, and ensure more women and families have access to reproductive health care,» said Richards.

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.

In fact, the majority of Americans support access to preventive and reproductive health care at Planned Parenthood and want abortion to stay safe and legal.

There is uncertainty ahead of us as anti-women's health legislators target us, but we will never stop fighting to protect access to the full range of care our patients depend on: affordable birth control, STI testing and treatment, cancer screening and abortion.

«The Republican party has embraced a platform that is anti-immigrant, strips rights away from communities of color, criminalizes abortion, prevents millions from accessing basic health care at Planned Parenthood, and cuts insurance coverage for birth control.

We know the real reason: They want to outlaw abortion — and they're trying to do it by chipping away at access to health care, bill by bill.

Whether members provide abortions, educate colleagues and the public about abortion care, or lend their voice in advocating for reproductive choice and the important contribution their professions can make, their role is vital to increasing access to comprehensive reproductive health care.