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«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.

With reproductive rights under an unprecedented attack nationally, the Reproductive Health Act (S. 2796) will secure and protect access to abortion in New York

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

Planned Parenthood learned last fall that anti-choice groups had begun circulating a petition to seat a grand jury in an effort to restrict access to abortion in Kansas.

Bill Would Have Denied DC Women Access to Abortion in Virtually All Circumstances and Subject Doctors to Criminal Penalties

Against the backdrop of a contentious presidential campaign in which abortion and even contraception were front - burner issues — to a degree unprecedented in recent memory — supporters of reproductive health and rights were able to block high - profile attacks on access to abortion in states as diverse as Alabama, Idaho, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

It takes a key step to ensure that a woman serving in the Peace Corps has the same rights and access to abortion in cases when she is the victim of rape or when her life is endangered as are afforded women in the armed services and many other women covered by federal health programs.

The three lawsuits follow the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, which struck down two Texas laws that devastated access to abortion in the state.

Tim Pawlenty left Minnesota with a legacy of extreme laws that limit women's access to abortion in our state.

While we may face renewed attempts to restrict access to abortion in other parts of the country, California has constitutional protections regarding abortion.

The bill includes an important provision that will ensure for the first time that Peace Corps volunteers have access to abortion in cases of rape, incest, or to protect the life of the woman.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, who has never been one for mincing words, particularly when it comes to women's issues, likened Republican efforts to limit access to abortion in the budget battle to «an old German Nazi move,» and accused her colleagues across the aisle of wanting to «kill women.»

Overturning a lower court's decision that ruled that the laws unconstitutionally limited access to abortion in the state, New Orleans - based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals judges wrote, «on its face does not impose an undue burden on the life and health of a woman.»

In Lader's mind there was a very definite connection between the struggle to abolish slavery in the 19th century and the struggle to abolish legal restrictions on access to abortion in the 20th.

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.

Women have access to abortion in the third trimester only in extreme circu.mstances.

Not exact matches

«Brazil and other countries in Latin America are really good examples of what it looks like when you set up barriers to access for abortions,» said Mónica Arango, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights.

The combination of restricted access to abortion and increased Internet access has led to the rise of Do - It - Yourself abortions in the U.S., many of which look remarkably like the illegal abortions taking place in Brazil.

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.

Still, potential parallels may be emerging as states in the U.S. move to restrict access to abortion.

She also discussed some of the women's health and family policies that she would prioritize in the White House, such as paid family leave and access to birth control and safe abortion.

All this changed when the sexual revolution and the rise of feminism ushered in easy divorce, the expectation of a career outside the home for married women, ready access to contraception and abortion, and the gay - rights movement.

Well, if you look at the statistical analysis, you will find that as abortion became legal and safe, the rate of violent crime has dropped in this country — significantly and with a high correlation to access to safe and legal abortions.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

And when a woman becomes pregnant within a loving, supportive, respectful relationship, has every option open to her, [and] decides she does not wish to bear a child; and has access to a safe, affordable abortion — there is not a tragedy in sight — only blessing.

Almost all of the coverage of the Lancet findings suggests that this decline in abortions correlates to increased access to contraceptives — for obvious reasons.

In Sweden, for example, an increase in affordable access to contraception and the presence of free contraceptive counseling have paralleled a substantial increase in the teen abortion ratIn Sweden, for example, an increase in affordable access to contraception and the presence of free contraceptive counseling have paralleled a substantial increase in the teen abortion ratin affordable access to contraception and the presence of free contraceptive counseling have paralleled a substantial increase in the teen abortion ratin the teen abortion rate.

In the long and arduous fight leading up to Roe v. Wade, the one thing feminists were most passionate about was their belief that unrestricted access to abortion was indispensable to achieving gender equality.

Most of the countries where abortion is illegal also suffer from widespread poverty and limited access to contraception — huge drivers in the abortion rate.

Obviously, so the argument goes, if we want to cut teenage pregnancies and abortions we must have access to sexual health services — in other words, teenagers are less likely to get pregnant if they are using contraception; failing contraception, then we should give them access to the morning - after pill, which may be seen as preferable to a twelve - year - old getting pregnant.

The best way of testing this (putting aside ethical concerns for a moment) would be to conduct an experiment in which one group did not have access to confidential abortion and another did, and then we could monitor the differences between them.

Not only would improved access to contraception impact the abortion rate in the U.S., it would dramatically reduce maternal and infant deaths around the world.

When abortion is made easier to access, e.g. by assuring youngsters that their parents need never know, we would predict more youngsters to engage in risky sexual activity.

Even Anna Glazier, a health expert and a strong proponent of greater access to the morning - after pill, stated in early 2006 in an editorial in the British Medical Journal that greater access to emergency birth control has failed to cut pregnancy and abortion rates.

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?

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.

In her eyes, by running ahead of the people, the now - infamous 1973 decision gave «opponents of access to abortion a target to aim at relentlessly.»

The Connexions service, school nurse service and Healthy Schools standards are just a few of the many routes whereby inappropriate sex education or access to abortion and contraception may sneak in under the radar of unwary teachers and governors.

However, if we could increase access to contraceptives to meet this need, it is estimated that it would result in 50 million fewer abortions per year worldwide.

Those who are on the front lines of championing contraceptive access to reduce abortion in the developing world are having national impact among conservatives!

How dare these women insist that their abortions are appropriate and moral, while simultaneously attempting to destroy abortion access for every other woman in the country?

The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»

Regarding abortion — we know that laws in some states have been affected emanating from religious sources that have limited access to facilities.

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.»

Endorsing a man who publicly and privately promotes sexual promiscuity in hopes of reducing abortion is no less absurd than endorsing the candidate who promises increased access to abortion.

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.

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 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.

Look, stupid, you can pay to prevent pregnancy, or you can stop attempting to prevent women from accessing legal abortion, or you can pay for kids that weren't wanted in the first place.

«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.