Sentences with phrase «access to contraceptives as»
Supporters of abortion and reproductive rights expect to renew an effort to approved measures like the Reproductive Health Act and expand access to contraceptives as Donald Trump's presidency looms next year.
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As a Catholic, I stand with President Obama's decision to require religious institutions to provide access to contraceptives.
Access to contraceptives is crucial for mothers and families as a life - saving mechanism.
«More especially, scaling up, and integrating HIV with sexual and reproductive health services, such as the various education and information platforms, condom programming and access to contraceptive services.»
In November 2016, the City Council Women's Caucus rolled out its first - ever «legislative equality package,» which included bills calling for a report on the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices; sexual assault awareness and prevention training for cab drivers; support for a state bill that prohibits employers from asking potential applicants for their salary history; and another state bill that gives domestic violence survivors access to breaking leases.
But the projection assumed that birth rates in Africa — the highest in the world — would steadily drop as access to contraceptives and women's education improved.
As the prospect began to sink in of losing access to free contraceptives if the health law is repealed or replaced, women have reportedly been racing to get IUDs or stockpile birth control pills before President Barack Obama leaves office.
The state is the first to implement such a law, a bold move at a time when many federal and state politicians throughout the country are taking action to restrict women's access to contraception, such as defunding Planned Parenthood — a major provider a family planning health care services in the U.S. — and attempting to block a provision in the Affordable Care Act that mandates health insurance companies cover the cost of contraceptives.
Despite evidence for the effectiveness and safety of emergency contraceptives (ECs), 3,5,6,7 this method of preventing pregnancy is underused.8 Barriers include lack of knowledge, 9,10 reluctance of young women to request medication from their physicians, 11 denial of pregnancy risk12 and lack of timely access to physicians or family planning clinics.13 As the effectiveness of emergency contraception is time - dependent, convenient prescription and dispensing mechanisms are crucial to enabling its use.
In the aftermath of an assault, and as they work to heal from a trauma, victims deserve reliable and affordable health care, especially access to contraceptives, STI testing and other preventative care.
The curricula were considered weak in a number of areas: They emphasized abstinence; lacked adequate basic information on contraceptives, condoms, sex and sexual health; excluded key topics such as reproduction, STIs, abortion, access to condoms and sexual health services; and omitted other social and contextual aspects, such as harassment and parental monitoring.
About the only bright spot for reproductive rights supporters was the defeat in Mississippi of a ballot initiative that would have sharply restricted women's access not only to abortion but also to various contraceptive methods by defining a person under state law as «a human being from the moment of fertilization.»
Washington, DC — Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, issued the following statement in response to a Contraceptive CHOICE Study finding that access to no co-pay birth control — as is outlined in the Affordable Care Act — leads to significantly lowered abortion rates.
In addition, a crucial provision in the health law may soon require coverage of all FDA - approved contraceptives as preventive care, allowing women to fully access the birth control method of their choice without co-pays.
The Contraceptive CHOICE Study is released and demonstrates that access to no - copay birth control — as is outlined in the Affordable Care Act — leads to significantly lowered unintended pregnancy and abortion rates.