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).
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.
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).
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.»
As The Catholic Herald reported it
at the time, «Catholic schools must teach pupils where
to access an
abortion, Schools Secretary Ed Balls has said»:
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.»
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.»
Because research looked
at the years of 2008 - 2011, the Institute says that the falling numbers were not the result of recent
abortion - restricting legislative measures; instead, they pointed
to the overall falling birth rate and greater
access to contraception.
We should note
at this point that for a school
to provide information enabling sexually active pupils «
to access»
abortion and contraception is, according
to Catholic teaching, «formal cooperation» with the grave evils of, respectively, murder and sex outside marriage.
Ashley
at Let Me Entertain You is concerned about women's rights and wrote yesterday about a proposed regulation by the Department of Health and Human Services «that could seriously undermine
access to basic reproductive health services, including birth control and
abortion.»
At the moment, women in the UK still have
to secure the approval of two doctors before they can
access an
abortion.
In response
to a question from Patrick Harvie MSP
at First Minister's Questions, Nicola Sturgeon has announced her support for Northern Irish women
to access free, safe, and legal
abortion services through the NHS in Scotland.
At 10:30 a.m., Concerned Clergy for Choice members hold a press conference expressing support for
access to contraception, safe and legal
abortion, and the funding
to provide these basic medical services, LCA Press Room (104), LOB, Albany.
Europe must stand for
access to the whole range of sexual and reproductive services — including
access to safe
abortion when needed — here
at home in Europe, and in partnership with other governments around the world.
That way if the decision was reversed
at the federal level, women in New York would still — in theory — have
access to abortion services.
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 although she sees both equal pay and
abortion access as important issues — «Choice is really important
to me; I'm
at a loss for words
at how strongly I feel about it,» she tells me
at one point — they're not the key issues in her campaign.
At the other end of the scale, there was mounting pressure from doctors
to liberalise
abortion access in the early stages of pregnancy.
Between the positions
at either end of the spectrum, there is a range of ethical, political and medical debate about how easy
access to abortion should be, which interests and factors should prevail over others, and how late terminations may be carried out.
«While it may seem intuitive that increasing distance
to a facility providing
abortions limits
access, this is the first study
to rigorously demonstrate this association,» said Joseph Potter, PhD, a professor of sociology
at the Population Research Center
at the University of Texas
at Austin and principal investigator of TxPEP.
«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.»
For Dr. Daniel Grossman, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences
at the University of California
at San Francisco and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, if lawmakers want
to curb
abortion at a later stage, they should make it easier for women
to access care in the early stages of the pregnancy.
This year's schedule included a troubling look
at the invasion of Uganda by American evangelicals (God Loves Uganda), profiles of reliable boogeymen like Dick Cheney (The World According
to Dick Cheney) and the Koch Brothers (Citizen Koch), celebrations of Robert Reich (Inequality for All), Occupy (99 %: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film) and WikiLeaks (We Steal Secrets), and After Tiller, a remarkable all -
access look
at the four remaining third - trimester
abortion providers, and the tough choices made every day within their walls.
maintained that the law is
at odds with developmental science in treating adolescent abilities as developing in the same way for cognitive and social abilities, particularly with regard
to access to abortion and the juvenile death penalty for murder.
Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law 50 bills passed during the recent legislative session, including a bill requiring a report on why Utah women get
abortions and others aimed
at increasing
access to public records.
Today the women's health care providers who jointly filed suit last month on behalf of their patients have filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court
to reinstate an injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on October 28 blocking a Texas provision requiring doctors who provide
abortions to obtain admitting privileges
at a local hospital — a requirement that leading medical associations oppose and only results in women losing
access to safe medical care.
The Safe
Access to Abortion Services Act will come into effect on Feb. 1, banning anti-abortion protests within at least 50 metres of facilities providing abortion s
Abortion Services Act will come into effect on Feb. 1, banning anti-
abortion protests within at least 50 metres of facilities providing abortion s
abortion protests within
at least 50 metres of facilities providing
abortion s
abortion services.
«The court had given opponents of
access to abortion a target
to aim
at relentlessly... My criticism of Roe is that it seemed
to have stopped the momentum that was on the side of change.»
At issue in Watson / Spratt was whether or not the
Access to Abortion Services Act is a justifiable interference with freedom of expression rights.
Just in the last two months, Arizona has taken two CAP bills all the way
to the Supreme Court, where they were refused review: HB 2036, the 20 - week
abortion ban, and HB 2800, which attempted
to deny women with Medicaid coverage the right
to access health care services
at a provider of their choosing.
Previous studies also failed
to show significant differences in pregnancy or
abortion rates among women with advance provisions of EC.6, 7,19 It is possible that the effect of increased
access on pregnancy rates is truly negligible because EC is not as effective as found in the single - use clinical trials, or because women
at highest risk do not use EC frequently enough or
at all.
Research is needed
to test interventions that improve knowledge and practice in providing medication
abortion, and the Indian Government
at the national and state level needs
to prioritise improving policies and practice
to increase
access to comprehensive
abortion care and quality contraceptive services that prevent unintended pregnancy.
Up and down the ballot, women's health champions are facing opponents who threaten
to take us backward on
access to birth control coverage; backward on
access to safe, legal
abortion; and backward on
access to care
at Planned Parenthood health centers.
Further limiting their
access to health care puts them
at risk of harm resulting from unintended pregnancy, unsafe
abortion and childbirth, and sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV / AIDS.»
If we let Donald Trump and Mike Pence into the White House, they will block patients from
accessing care
at Planned Parenthood, ban
abortion, punish women and doctors for
abortion, roll back insurance coverage for birth control and other lifesaving care, allow businesses
to discriminate against LGBTQ people, and more.
We work
at the local, state and federal level
to advocate for medically - accurate sexuality education, contraceptive equity, patient safety,
abortion rights, and affordable
access to reproductive health care for all people.
In fact, the majority of Americans support
access to preventive and reproductive health care
at Planned Parenthood and want
abortion to stay safe and legal.
We know the real reason: They want
to outlaw
abortion — and they're trying
to do it by chipping away
at access to health care, bill by bill.
We
at PPAF fight back when anti-
abortion politicians and their extremist allies try
to outlaw
abortion, take away
access to affordable birth control, and block patients from care
at Planned Parenthood health centers.
These folks are fired up
to do whatever it takes
to protect
access to birth control,
abortion, and care
at Planned Parenthood health centers.
«SEA 371 was a targeted attempt aimed
at ending
access to safe, legal
abortion by trying
to shut down a Planned Parenthood health care center that also provides preventive care
to more than 4,000 women and men each year,» Cockrum said.
The types of tactics employed
to interfere with
access to safe, legal
abortion at the state level include:
Similarly, an AP open records request suggests there is no wrongdoing in Kansas, while officials in Florida backed down about limiting women's
access to safe, legal
abortion at Planned Parenthood health centers.
The rule made it clear that it is against the law for state politicians
to block people from
accessing care
at a health center because the organization also provides safe, legal
abortion.
This was their actual motive and it can be seen from anti-
abortion politicians» response: These widely discredited videos gave politicians who have always wanted
to ban safe and legal
abortion the fuel they needed
to try
to cut funding for women's health programs and block patients from
accessing services
at Planned Parenthood health centers.
Background Information: Support for
access to safe, legal
abortion is
at a record high — nearly 70 percent of Americans don't want
to see Roe v. Wade overturned, the highest rate since the case was decided more than 40 years ago — and that includes people who voted for President Trump.
If you don't stand with us on
access to safe and legal
abortion, affordable birth control, care
at Planned Parenthood, or health care equity, then you don't deserve
to represent us.
In fact, a recent study found that if women have
access to birth control of their choosing,
at no cost, the
abortion rate can be cut by up
to 71 percent.