Sentences with phrase «ban abortion at»

Including these two new laws, 18 states ban abortion at or after 20 weeks (see State Policies on Later Abortions).

Iowa and Kentucky adopted measures to ban abortion at 20 weeks postfertilization (equivalent to 22 weeks after a woman's last menstrual period); by year's end, 18 states had such bans in effect (see State Policies on Later Abortion).

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards called on Speaker John Boehner and House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Chairman Trent Franks (R - AZ) to cancel Thursday's hearing on his bill to ban abortion at 20 weeks nationwide in light of today's ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that a similar law in Arizona is unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America denounced today's House Judiciary Committee passage of dangerous and unconstitutional legislation that would ban abortion at 20 weeks nationwide — interfering in a woman's ability to make personal decisions about her pregnancy in consultation with her doctor.

Meanwhile, five states (AL, ID, IN, KS and OK) enacted provisions to ban abortion at or beyond 20 weeks» gestation based on the spurious assertion that a fetus can feel pain at that point.

Health A federal judge overturned a North Dakota law that bans abortions at as early as six weeks.

It bans abortion at 20 weeks postfertilization (22 weeks after the woman's last menstrual period or LMP).

House Bill 2036 has several damaging provisions that pose a threat to women's health, but the provision of the bill that bans abortion at 20 weeks is a particularly cruel and dangerous attack on women's health.

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And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

silence your opinion because at that point the law banning abortion would be favoring our side?

In the Press this was hailed as «Catholic hospital orders ban on abortion referrals» (Daily Telegraph), (etc. etc)... and finally in the Catholic Herald a leader appeared entitled «A Catholic hospital is saved» which went on to say «But the fact remains that, at last, an important Catholic institution in this country has managed to resist the pressure of secularisation — thanks, in part, to the leadership of the Cardinal».

Another twenty percent said abortion should never be legal at all, bringing the grand total of people who believe that abortion should be at least mostly banned up to fifty - eight percent.

At least one state bans any payment for fetal remains from an abortion.

His only concession is that elected officials may support proposals aimed at reducing abortions when it is not possible to ban them entirely.

In the decades after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision ensured legal protection for abortion procedures nationwide, the anti-abortion movement was initially uncompromising in advocating across - the - board abortion bans at the state and national level.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law banning most abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected, or at around six weeks of pregnancy, marking the strictest abortion regulation in the nation — but setting the state up for a lengthy court fight.

Grantees will be banned from performing abortions — regardless of the funding source — at the same facilities that provide Title X services.

They argue further that abortion is a permanent feature of society, thus the practical result of a ban would merely be to remove clinical guidelines from abortion and push it underground, placing women at serious risk.

Blodgett said the GOP bill blocks people with Medicaid from accessing preventive care at Planned Parenthood health centers, including birth control and cancer screenings; undermines Essential Health Benefits standards, including maternity coverage; and imposes a nationwide ban on private insurance coverage of abortion.

In light of Monday's women - led strike in Poland, in which thousands of people in over sixty cities gathered to protest the government's proposal to completely ban abortion, If You Don't Know Me By Now, You Will Never Never Never Know Me at Fundacja Arton seems exceptionally prescient.

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At issue in both is the federal law banning «partial birth abortion,» which Congress passed in the wake of the Court's 2000 decision Stenberg v. Carhart, which struck down a similar statute in Nebraska because it failed to include an exception that would allow the procedure if needed to protect the health of the mother.

«Arizona abortion restrictions backed by 16 other states»: In Friday's edition of The Arizona Daily Star, Howard Fischer will have an article that begins, «Officials from 16 states are lining up behind Arizona's bid to enforce its year - old ban on abortions at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy.»

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Mississippi's new ban on abortions at 15 weeks, less than 24 hours after it was signed into law.

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.

«We will see lots of copycat laws of the federal abortion ban, and the envelope will be pushed and expanded to include a longer list of banned procedures,» says Roger Evans, senior director for public policy, litigation and law at Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York City.

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.

It's never been more clear: Anti-abortion extremists will stop at nothing to ban safe and 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.

Following South Dakota's abortion ban, 11 other states introduced legislation this year aimed at criminalizing abortion.

Gynoticians are so fixated on banning abortion that they are using these discredited smear videos as an excuse to pass their dangerous laws at the high price of potentially cutting off millions of men, women and young people from preventative care.

Following South Dakota's abortion ban, 11 other states introduced legislation this session aimed at criminalizing abortion.

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).

That's why we are fighting back hard and calling this what it is: part of a decade - long campaign of deceiving the public, making false charges, and terrorizing women and their doctors — all in order to ban abortion and prevent women from accessing care at Planned Parenthood.

In a letter to Congress today, Planned Parenthood detailed how recent attacks are part of a decade - long pattern of illegal harassment by extremists, whose focus is banning abortion and preventing women from accessing preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

SB 1718 / HB 865 is government interference at its worst and would have banned safe, legal abortion in Florida.

Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our patients, which is why we are fighting back hard and calling this what it is — part of a decade - long campaign of deceiving the public, making false charges, and terrorizing women and their doctors, all in order to ban abortion and cut women off from care at Planned Parenthood,» said Eric Ferrero, Vice President for Communications at Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Yet extreme bans on abortion continue to arise in state legislatures, including bans on abortion at just six weeks of pregnancy.

There already is a ban on federal funding of abortion, with rare exceptions, at Planned Parenthood or anywhere else.

«Now, we must hold our new president - elect accountable for his promises to defund Planned Parenthood,» as well as pass a ban on abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy and appoint antiabortion judges, he said.

«Politicians in Ohio will stop at nothing to ban abortion in all cases in our state.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) vetoed a ban on abortion at 20 weeks postfertilization and a restriction on postviability abortions.

It's ridiculous to assume that touchy topics — religion, abortion, guns, gay marriage and the like — could be banned at work.