Sentences with phrase «access abortion clinics»
Andrew Cuomo believes in the right of women to access abortion clinics but not in the right of sexual assault victims (the majority of whom are women) to access the Courts.
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The response of the last government was essentially more of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.
The Congress seems for the most part to agree with the media, if passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinics» Entrance Act» the act that narrowed the First Amendment rights of abortion protestors as an entire class of citizens» is any indication.
The Supreme Court has found that access to an abortion must be guaranteed so it is unclear if eliminating every abortion clinic in a single state is permitted.
«Abortion restrictions and clinic closures mean that patients may need to travel greater distances to access services,» said Rachel Jones, lead author of the study, in a written release.
According to LifeSiteNews, the article makes a «pro-abortion case» but arrives at a «shocking conclusion:» «While abortion is still legal, it is increasingly difficult to access, thanks to the closing of so many abortion clinics and pro-life laws that help women by giving them additional information and alternatives.»
Has the easy access to abortion clinics compromised conscience formation?
Those who can afford the private clinic fee and travel costs to England will be able to access a safe, legal abortion, but might have to significantly rearrange work and childcare to do so.
But Ms. Conlin and the others at the press conference argued the state attorney general plays a major role in defending abortion - rights cases, such as litigating efforts to interfere with access to abortion clinics, as occurred during the late 1980s with «Operation Rescue» protests led by controversial anti-abortion advocate Randall Terry.
«Official abortion rate declined in Texas after law restricted access to clinics.»
«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.»
The Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) released a study on the state of women's reproductive health in Texas, and found that due to lack of access to clinics and poverty, 22 % of women surveyed had self - induced or attempted to self - induce abortions.
Such government restrictions, combined with clinic violence and harassment, have drastically reduced the number of abortion providers around the country and have made access to the remaining providers exceedingly difficult for growing numbers of women...» More.
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But with just five abortion clinics in the state, this new clinic would offer terminations as part of a long list of other reproductive health services, including annual exams, sexual health education, Pap smears, cancer screenings, birth control access, and STD testing and treatment.
Abortion - rights advocates also argue that redirecting funding to other clinics could limit lower - income Americans» access to family planning services, as other clinics may not have the capacity to handle the new customers, for example.
«In the past five years, states nationwide have passed an unprecedented number of laws restricting access to abortion — shuttering hundreds of clinics and shrinking the ranks of doctors who provide abortion care... [W] e travel to the Midwest with a physician whose ability to practice is in peril.»
In the landmark Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt case on June 27, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that two abortion restrictions in Texas are unconstitutional because they would shut down most clinics in the state and cause an «undue burden» for Texas women to access safe, legal abortion.
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.
The state of Texas» sustained campaign against Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics affiliated with abortion providers appears to have led to an increase in births among low - income women who lost access to affordable and effective birth control, a new study says.