Sentences with phrase «access to abortion»

One - third of these new provisions, 43 in 19 states, sought to restrict access to abortion services.

New state - level laws restricting access to abortion likely have not contributed to the decline.

It is just this illusion of sex without consequences, she maintains, that brought us to the point of needing widespread access to abortion in the first place.

We support state and local advocacy and education to promote positive policies and programs and counter attacks on access to abortion, family planning, and sexuality education.

Critics, however, have expressed concerns about the bill's language, which they argue could expand access to abortion.

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.

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

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years.

Regardless of any new science on the topic of when life begins, the issues of access to abortion and the human rights of unborn children remain inherently political.

Has the easy access to abortion clinics compromised conscience formation?

But a few people in my family might need access to abortion themselves.

We are very concerned about access to abortion, including access to both medical and surgical abortions, particularly in rural and northern areas.

The federal government has no authority to deny these women access to abortion services and we are confident that federal courts will overwhelmingly agree.

That said, no laws were enacted this year to facilitate or improve access to abortion, family planning or comprehensive sex education.

Three states also moved to protect access to abortion.

Given access to abortion or gene therapy the decision could be made to eliminate this fault of nature.

Women's access to abortion remains severely limited and they face life imprisonment if they break the law.

We're facing a powerful and well - funded opposition who have proven they will do almost anything to restrict access to abortion and affordable birth control.

The new wave of litigation to protect and expand access to abortion won't end here.

This in turn provides the context in which easy access to abortion is demanded as a backup to failed contraception.

The WEP platform is dedicated to the passage of the 10 - point «Women's Equality Agenda» — which would codify an array of anti-discrimination statutes, as well as unfettered access to abortion services.

There is a fairly constant onslaught on the fundamental right to life — from Ireland with its proposed referendum on permitting abortion, to campaigns for increased access to abortion and euthanasia in many parts of the world.

In the years which followed his resignation from that position, he began to reflect on the social revolution in which he had been involved, and came to have doubts about the morality of unrestricted access to abortion.

These laws therefore restrict the use of telemedicine in the case of abortion and reduce access to abortion services in rural areas.

Oregon moved to provide access to abortion services for immigrants who are not yet eligible for Medicaid.

House Bill Would Deny Access to Abortion in Virtually All Circumstances and Subject Doctors to Criminal Penalties

You have the exact same access to abortion today as you did on Election Day.

A ban on abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy in North Carolina that only permitted access to abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy under an extremely narrow medical emergency exception.

Notably, Megyn Kelly did not follow up to ask if he would oppose access to abortion for 10 - year - old rape victims, as she did with Mike Huckabee around a widely covered case in Paraguay last year.

Everyone has the exact same access to abortion today as they did on Election Day.

At least 870,000 women will lose access to ACA Marketplace insurance plans that include abortion coverage, and millions more could lose access to abortion coverage in other plans.

«This meaningless and false claim is part of a campaign to spread misinformation by a group whose sole purpose is to end access to abortion in America,» Ferrero wrote in an email.

Women who live in Arizona's rural areas will lose access to abortion entirely, as abortion - by - pill is currently the only form of care outside Phoenix and Tucson.

In addition to repeated attempts by state legislatures to chip away at access to abortion, birth control and other reproductive health care services, 10 states are currently considering sweeping bans that would criminalize abortion (AL, GA, IN, KY, MO, MS, OH, OK, TN, WV).

States have enacted 51 new abortion restrictions in the first six months of 2015 — despite the fact that Americans overwhelmingly support access to abortion.

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.

But that hasn't stopped the anti-women's health movement from dialing up efforts to eliminate access to abortion through the introduction of TRAP («targeted restrictions of abortion providers») bills and regulations that place unreasonable requirements on health care centers.

Although the charges were ultimately dismissed, pro-choice activists believe that there will be more cases like it as access to abortion becomes more limited in the U.S.

For many years following Roe, most of those who supported liberal access to abortion would simply cite the Supreme Court's ruling and regard that reference as obviating any need to discuss the morality of abortion or consider the social impact of hundreds of thousands of abortions performed annually.

What happens when you introduce a policy of confidential access to abortion services for minors or, alternatively, you introduce a policy asserting parents» right to know?

This is basic common sense, and is fine as far as it goes, but it does not explain why pro-life advocates would struggle against easy access to abortion when they are not being personally oppressed by it, or why some men would hold pro-choice views when they can not become pregnant.

Lader argued that since early abortions are statistically safer for the woman than childbirth, and since the morality of such abortions is a matter of religious and philosophical dispute, the state ought not to prevent women from having legal access to abortion services:

Perhaps most troubling was her recent statement at a Women in the World Conference where she suggested that in order to expand worldwide access to abortion, «deep - seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases have to be changed.»

But, of course, whether or not unlimited access to abortion is guaranteed by the Constitution is precisely what the great legal debate is about.

Thus, the stage is already set for the creation of a positive right to die here that could, one dark day, subsume the religious liberty of doctors not to participate — as is occurring now in Canada, and afflicts pro-life doctors in Victoria, Australia regarding access to abortion.

The pro-life position, whether or not it is based on religious orthodoxy, is more ethically highly involved than my own tenet of unconstrained access to abortion on demand....

Assembly Democrats want to guarantee access to abortion for New York state residents if the Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.