Sentences with phrase «access to reproductive health care services»

Washington, D.C. — Today Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) applauded Sen. Barbara Boxer (D - CA) and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D - NY) for introducing the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), common - sense legislation that guarantees access to reproductive health care services.

The bill includes measures to fully fund the nation's family planning program (Title X), expand access to reproductive health care services through Medicaid, require insurance companies to cover birth control if they cover other prescription drugs, protect the ability of rape survivors to access emergency contraception (EC) in the emergency room, improve public awareness about EC, and provide teens with medically accurate, age appropriate sex education.

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Under Goal no. 3, which is about global health, I note a need to «achieve universal health coverage,» as well as to «ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health - care services.»

The Sustainable Development Goals include ensuring access by infants to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food (2.1); ending all forms of malnutrition and achieving targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age (2.2); addressing the nutritional needs of lactating women (2.2); reducing neonatal mortality (3.2); ensuring access to reproductive health - care services (3.7); and recognizing and valuing unpaid care provided by women and girls (5.4).

«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.»

Schneiderman said the measure «threatens to slash essential health care services for millions of New Yorkers who need them the most» and would unconstitutionally «deny women access to reproductive health care.»

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.

It also means that we need a crash program to get reproductive health care and birth control services to the more than 200 million women today who want to plan their families but lack access to the means to do so.

As a voice for reproductive freedom, PPNYC supports legislation and policies to ensure that all New Yorkers will have access to the full range of reproductive health care services and information.

Americans — across party lines — support commonsense policies to increase access to the full - range of reproductive health care services and information — and they want to keep politicians out of a woman's personal health care decisions.

We are a nonprofit health care provider that wants citizens to have access to services and education so they can make their own, informed decisions about their reproductive health.

Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida is the region's largest provider of sex education and each year we serve over 40,000 patients with access to high - quality reproductive health care services.

With eight health centers throughout the region, it is PPSWO's goal to provide reproductive health care services to any individual who wants or needs them; to advocate public policies which guarantee each individual's access to services, right to privacy, and ability to make reproductive decisions free of coercion; and to provide human sexuality education which enhances the health and well - being of individuals in the community.

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

With seven health centers throughout the region, it is Planned Parenthood's mission to provide: reproductive health care services to any individual who wants or needs them, to advocate public policies which guarantee each individual's access to services, to advocate individual's right to privacy and their ability to make reproductive decisions free of coercion, and to provide human sexuality education which enhances the health and well - being of individuals in the community.

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

Your gift provides confidential and essential health care and counseling services to the thousands of patients who visit us each year; it supports our fearless advocacy to protect reproductive rights and access; and it equips women, men, and young people with honest, fact - based sexuality education.

With seven health centers throughout the region, it is Planned Parenthood's goal to provide reproductive health care services to any individual who wants or needs them, to advocate public policies which guarantee each individual's access to services, to advocate individual's right to privacy and their ability to make reproductive decisions free of coercion, and to provide human sexuality education which enhances the health and well - being of individuals in the community.

She will work with communities to advocate for reproductive health and rights, and will collaborate with Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona to reach out to voters and legislators to advance a vision of greater access to comprehensive sexuality education, family - planning services, and abortion care.

In addition to health services, PPGC provides its communities with medically - accurate, comprehensive sexuality education and advocates for access to reproductive health care and accurate sexuality education.

With 78 % of our patients living at or below the federal poverty level, we are caring for people who don't have access to vital health and reproductive services.

Since 2005, those providers have had access to between roughly $ 35 million and $ 40 million a year to provide services to these women — who are but a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of women who actually need services in Texas; with Texas» dubious claim to fame as the state with the highest percentage of uninsured people (about 26 % in 2009, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation), the number of Texas women in need of reproductive health care is roughly 1.5 million, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Put simply, says Randall Ellis, senior director of government relations for the well - respected Houston FQHC Legacy Community Health Services, it takes the entire spectrum of providers, including Planned Parenthood, to meet the needs of the growing population of low - income people without access to reproductive and other basic health care serHealth Services, it takes the entire spectrum of providers, including Planned Parenthood, to meet the needs of the growing population of low - income people without access to reproductive and other basic health care sServices, it takes the entire spectrum of providers, including Planned Parenthood, to meet the needs of the growing population of low - income people without access to reproductive and other basic health care serhealth care servicesservices.

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America released the following statement condemning language restricting women's access to reproductive health care in the FY 14 House Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill and praising two pro-women's health amendments introduced at today's markup of the legislation in the House Appropriations Committee.

«Their commitment to providing access to affordable reproductive health care and family planning services demonstrates their sheer dedication to the women, teens and families in their communities across the nation.»

As the nation's leading women's health care provider and advocate, Planned Parenthood knows firsthand why it's so critical that everyone have access to a comprehensive range of reproductive health care services, including abortion.

Letters to the editor are an easy and powerful way to get your voice heard and to show members of your community that you care about protecting access to reproductive and sexual health services.

The Prevention First Act will help women and couples plan their families and their futures by expanding access to critically needed affordable family planning education and reproductive health care services.

He also sided with politicians trying to deny women and men access to basic health care like STD tests and reproductive health care education services provided by Planned Parenthood health centers.

Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region's mission is to ensure broad public access to reproductive and related health care through health center services, education, advocacy and community partnerships in serving 42 counties in West Tennessee, North Mississippi and East Arkansas.

Everyone deserves equal access to sexual and reproductive health care services and education.

To become an Activist Council member, individuals must complete a full - day training session designed to bring new activists up to speed on current reproductive health, rights, and justice issues, review sexual and reproductive health care services offered at PPNYC, learn important messaging skills, and meet other New Yorkers passionate about protecting people's access to health carTo become an Activist Council member, individuals must complete a full - day training session designed to bring new activists up to speed on current reproductive health, rights, and justice issues, review sexual and reproductive health care services offered at PPNYC, learn important messaging skills, and meet other New Yorkers passionate about protecting people's access to health carto bring new activists up to speed on current reproductive health, rights, and justice issues, review sexual and reproductive health care services offered at PPNYC, learn important messaging skills, and meet other New Yorkers passionate about protecting people's access to health carto speed on current reproductive health, rights, and justice issues, review sexual and reproductive health care services offered at PPNYC, learn important messaging skills, and meet other New Yorkers passionate about protecting people's access to health carto health care.

PPGMR's mission is to ensure broad public access to reproductive and related health care through clinic services, education, advocacy and community partnerships in serving 42 counties in West Tennessee, North Mississippi and East Arkansas.

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Key to reaching the goals of the agenda to increase services that prevent unintended pregnancy; improve the quality of reproductive health care; ensure access to abortion; and deliver the messages to achieve this agenda.

Planned Parenthood of Nassau County (PPNC) seeks to compassionately and respectfully empower individuals to make independent, informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive lives by providing access to medically - sound health care and educational services, and by promoting public policies to make those services available to all.

Our mission is to enable all Marylanders to have access to a wide range of high quality, affordable reproductive health care services.

«Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more women now have better access to vital health care services: about 12.8 million women of reproductive age will become newly eligible for health insurance, and insurance plans will soon be required to cover basic care such as pelvic exams and birth control without co-pays,» said RichaCare Act, more women now have better access to vital health care services: about 12.8 million women of reproductive age will become newly eligible for health insurance, and insurance plans will soon be required to cover basic care such as pelvic exams and birth control without co-pays,» said Richacare services: about 12.8 million women of reproductive age will become newly eligible for health insurance, and insurance plans will soon be required to cover basic care such as pelvic exams and birth control without co-pays,» said Richacare such as pelvic exams and birth control without co-pays,» said Richards.

This year 850 pieces of legislation relating to women's reproductive health have been introduced nationwide, only a small minority of which support access to health care services.

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).

Providing access to reproductive, sexual and complementary health care services and information in settings that preserve and protect the right to privacy;

Planned Parenthood of Michigan provides reproductive health care and sexuality education services, and advocates for access to these services for everyone.

Everyone deserves equal access to the entire range of sexual and reproductive health care services.

Sensitive to the family planning needs of low - income families in the United States and abroad, he consistently supported federal funding for reproductive health care and repeatedly led the fight against restrictions on access to services.

«As the nation's leading advocate and provider of women's health care, including reproductive health services, we see every day that the best way to prevent unintended pregnancies and promote healthy families is to invest in family planning programs and ensure more women and families have access to affordable, quality reproductive health care and comprehensive sex education programs,» said Richards.

Planned Parenthood of Nassau County (PPNC) seeks to compassionately and respectfully empower individuals to make independent, informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive lives by providing access to medically sound health care and educational services, and by promoting public policies to make those services available to all.

The reproductive rights movement is led by the largest and most diverse generation of young people and are actively shaping a world where full access to reproductive health care, including abortion services, is a global lived reality for all.

We believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should have access to quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion — regardless of where she lives, how much money she makes, or how she is insured.

Every person should have access to the full range of reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion.

As national attacks on health care and Planned Parenthood patients continue, new polling data confirms Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly support Planned Parenthood and access to the full range of sexual and reproductive health care services, including safe, legal abortion.