Sentences with phrase «availability of abortion»

operating a family planning counseling service that provides advice and information regarding the benefits and availability of abortion as a method of family planning;

The court also will be asked to decide whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that this standard permits Texas to enforce, in nearly all circumstances, laws that would cause a significant reduction in the availability of abortion services while failing to advance the state's interest in promoting health — or other valid interest.

A similar invasion of civil rights is implicit in the initiative to require doctors to report to the Department of Health persons infected with the AIDS virus, and in the proposed restrictions that would prohibit any family planning institution receiving federal funds from informing clients of the availability of abortion services.

As it explained, «For two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized their intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail....

To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.

The availability of abortion changed that.

A settlement between the city and a pro-life crisis - pregnancy clinic has reversed a Bloomberg - era law that required such centers to post notices about the availability of abortions.

Not exact matches

«In fact, it wasn't Roe v. Wade that made abortion safe: it was the availability of antibiotics....

Within a couple of years of the widespread availability of the contraceptive pill Britain revised its abortion laws in a permissive direction.

I know of no group of people in the United States more reflexively liberal than classical musicians, and none more unanimous in the belief that abortion should remain legal and wholly unrestricted in its availability.

At one point it even commends to the attention of the EU «examples of Member States combining the liberal legislation of abortion with effective sexuality education, high - quality family planning services and the availability of different contraceptives which combine lower abortion rates and higher birth rates.»

In Guttmacher's analysis, they found that the decline of abortions is because of the availability of effective, affordable birth control and the abortion restrictions that have limited women's access.

The availability — and expectation — of abortion has made killing baby girls, once left to the hands of family and midwives, increasingly the responsibility of mothers.

«We confirm that the prohibition of abortion does not affect, in any way, the availability of optimal care to pregnant women.»

Backed by a large number of his conference and advocates, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie warned of «a slow and steady erosion» of reproductive rights hours before the Democrat - dominated chamber passed two measures designed to protect abortion availability and enhance access to contraception.

Backed by a large number of his Democratic conference and advocates, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Tuesday afternoon warned of «a slow and steady erosion» of reproductive rights hours before the Democrat - dominated chamber passed two measures designed to protect abortion availability and enhance access to contraception.

The reason for this decline is not fully understood, but it has been attributed to the increasing use of contraceptives, especially long - acting methods such as intrauterine devices, historic declines in the rate of unintended pregnancy and increasing numbers of state regulations that limit the availability of otherwise legal abortion services.

Research also indicates that widespread availability of EC could prevent 1.7 million unintended pregnancies and 800,000 abortions each year in the U.S.

Miller's bland assurances, of course, are willfully blind to the reality that when you reduce the availability of reproductive health care, you inevitably increase the number of abortions — including more dangerously unsafe abortions, at that.

Planned Parenthood led the charge on several critical women's health and rights victories, including: the creation of the birth control pill and the development of the IUD; the legalization of birth control and abortion care; insurance coverage for contraception; public awareness and availability of emergency contraception; ensuring that pharmacies fill prescriptions for birth control; and coverage without co-pays of the full range of FDA - approved contraceptive methods.

Numerous studies show that improved contraceptive access and availability would reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion.

In June, I wrote about the paradox of antiabortion organizations» antipathy toward expanding the availability of long - acting birth control — a policy that would do more than anything else (including severe abortion restrictions) to reduce abortion.

Fewer young women are giving birth, most likely due to improvements in the availability of contraception, access to abortion and improvements in sexuality education.