Sentences with phrase «bill on abortion»

But a bill on abortion rights was struggling, and reform measures appear dead for the session.

Today, Members of Parliament have voted against a proposed amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill on abortion counselling.

Flanagan says previous bills on abortion form the governor are «more radical» than Cuomo has let on.

Not exact matches

Women's health advocates got a partial win on Tuesday as Ohio Governor John Kasich, a devoutly religious social conservative, vetoed a controversial «fetal heartbeat» bill that would have outlawed abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

For going on three weeks now, the Senate has been hung up on an amendment to the bill prohibiting its victims» fund, collected from fines on traffickers, from being used for abortions.

Republican legislators sent Iowa's governor a bill early Wednesday that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, propelling the state overnight to the front of a push among conservative statehouses jockeying to enact the nation's most restrictive regulations on the procedure.

Dawn Huckelbridge, director of American Bridge's Women's Rights Initiative, released the following statement in response to the US Senate's vote on a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and threaten doctors with jail time:

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

Sye notes that a bill called the «No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,» which would place new restrictions on the healthcare law President Obama signed last year, was the third House resolution introduced this year, which he calls a testament to new GOP fervor on social issues.

Pundits who throughout the summer had billed the elections as the first post-Webster «referendum on abortion» increasingly argued, as fall rolled around, that abortion had «faded» as a decisive issue for voters.

On 27th October 1967, the Speaker of the House of Commons declared that Royal Assent from Her Majesty the Queen had been given to David Steel's abortion Bill.

Actually, as we soon learned, whilst they seemed to have gained a technical opt out on referring for abortion (the CES's overall support for the Bill implied no need for non-Catholic schools to have such an opt out), this is what the CES had actually agreed to (this is the BBC's report): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8529595.stm

With each passing day another pro-life public figure» Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Al Gore, Bill Clinton» evolved to embrace abortion on demand.

Obama opposed the 2001 and 2002 «born alive» bills as backdoor attacks on a woman's legal right to abortion, but he says he would have been «fully in support» of a similar federal bill that President Bush had signed in 2002, because it contained protections for Roe v. Wade.»

Dreihaus, part of a group of Democrats that supported a ban on taxpayer funding of abortion yet — when this provision failed to pass — still voted in favor of the final health care reform bill, argued that, given his pro-life beliefs, the ad amounted to defamation.

An event billed as a discussion on the economy turned personal Tuesday when a woman asked President Barack Obama about his Christian faith and views on abortion.

«These were folks who took a courageous stand on healthcare reform, who led the fight to make sure there was no abortion funding in the bill» said Catholics United Executive Director Chris Korzen of the Democratic lawmakers his group is seeking to help.

The bills introduced included such measures as bans on government funding of abortion, restrictions on late - term abortions, ultrasound requirements, and prohibitions on abortions based on sex, race, or genetic abnormality.

The many serious ethical issues raised by this Bill require that Members of both Houses are given a free vote in accordance with their conscience, not only on the abortion issue but the Bill as a whole.

This extreme bill might finally convince pro-choice supporters to act on the continued infringement of abortion rights.

Other issues that will receive the same treatment include legislation that would allow NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise income taxes on the rich to fund pre-K, the public campaign finance bill and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act (assuming that it includes the abortion - rights plank, which is the piece the right finds most offensiBill de Blasio to raise income taxes on the rich to fund pre-K, the public campaign finance bill and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act (assuming that it includes the abortion - rights plank, which is the piece the right finds most offensibill and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act (assuming that it includes the abortion - rights plank, which is the piece the right finds most offensive).

And Gillibrand — who also faces re-election for a full 6 - year term this fall — herself has been pretty vocal on reproductive rights, pushing back with Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal against a Republican - led bill on the federal level that would eliminate tax breaks for insurance premiums on plans that provide abortion coverage.

For example, there's no way Felder, an observant Jew, would ever vote «yes» on the abortion rights bill.

IDC Leader Jeff Klein has countered in recent days will calls for votes on key liberal issues such as abortion rights and protections for transgender New Yorkers, inferring the bills still wouldn't pass amid opposition from lawmakers like Sen. Ruben Diaz, a socially conservative Democrat from the Bronx.

The abortion plank in the WEA, originally proposed in 2013 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has resulted in a standoff between the two legislative chambers: The Senate GOP refuses to vote on any legislation that includes it, while the Democrat - controlled Assembly won't vote on any stand - alone WEA bills.

Veteran New York campaign consultant Hank Sheinkopf — who worked with President Bill Clinton and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, among others — told BuzzFeed News that he thought Richards should run in California or New York, to «help set the national agenda on women's health discussion or even act to attract the flack from abortion opponents.»

Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laws.

The City Council approved the bill that would have placed strict limits on the advertising crisis pregnancy centers may use and required them to post signs designed to discourage women from seeking their abortion alternatives services.

The bill authored by Rep. Christopher H. Smith follows Saturday's Women's March on Washington, which brought hundreds of thousands of abortion rights supporters to the nation's capital.

Smith's bill also precedes the March for Life in Washington, which is expected to draw large crowds of abortion rights opponents on Friday.

Similarly, Ryan and Akin partnered on a bill seeking to prevent Medicaid recipients who are raped from obtaining an abortion unless they are victims of «forcible rape.»

He said that could mean holding back on bills by the Assembly's Democratic majority and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to strengthen and update state abortion laws in the event the court overturns Roe v. Wade.

In a statement, Zephyr Teachout, who is running against Cuomo in a Democratic primary, faulted the governor for working with Senate Republicans, who have refused to hold a vote on the abortion plank, which none of their members publicly support, but twice passed the nine other women's equality items as separate bills.

In June, as a Cuomo - backed abortion - rights measure failed to come to a floor vote (and granted, it is doubtful that it had the votes to pass) and legislators adjourned without acting on any of the governor's public corruption bills, he refused, even when prompted, to single out the IDC.

State Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos says a bill to put into state law the abortion rights protections in the federal Roe v. Wade decision won't be voted on in the state Senate.

But proponents of the centers say they are upfront about their position on abortion and that the bill would infringe on their First Amendment rights.

Bill Hammond, health policy director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, wrote in a post on the Albany think tank's web site that the conflicting abortion policies could block or restrict New Yorkers from claiming tax credits under the GOP replacement plan.

They are protesting the January 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, Thousands of protesters converged in D.C. last week as the House of Representatives passed a bill baring federal spending on abortions.

Senate Democrats from states that Donald Trump won in 2016 were vital on Monday in blocking a bill, supported by the president, that would ban abortion after the mother reaches 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Women's groups say they have not given up on an abortion rights bill passing in the final days of the legislative session, now that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has introduced the Women's Equality Act as 10 separate bills.

But he said his group, which has been under intense pressure from progressives to return to the fold since the election of President Trump, is «ready to move forward,» but only if any final agreement is based on a legislative agenda that includes passage of a bill to strengthen abortion laws, enact a state DREAM Act, create a public campaign finance system, and adopt a single - payer health care program.

Senate Republicans had passed the bills in a piecemeal fashion and would not consider a vote on the abortion plank.

The Republicans have passed nine stand alone bills in lieu of the full act, leaving out the abortion piece, leading the Democrats to accuse them of «holding hostage» the other proposals, including pay equity and cracking down on sex trafficking.

Grisanti, like his GOP colleagues, opposes the abortion rights plank of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act, but voted «yes» on the nine remaining planks when they were brought to the floor as stand alone bills.

Bill Hammond: «The Cuomo administration's newly proposed ban on insurance copayments for birth control and abortion sets troubling precedents that should concern all New Yorkers, regardless of their views on reproductive rights.»

Opponents of the abortion bill walk in circles around supporters of the bill as a committee holds hearings on the bill at the Texas Capitol on Tuesday, July 2.

Other parts of his women's agenda call for the enactment of a state universal health care program, implementation of a statewide ban on asking for salary histories, a strengthening of the state's abortion laws and passage of a bill outlawing discrimination based on gender identity.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he'll know in a couple of weeks whether two key items on his end of session agenda will become law - an abortion rights bill and public financing of political campaigns.

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On Long Island, incumbent Republican Senator Jack Martins has been touting a vote for pay equity ahead of expected attacks on his opposition to an abortion rights bill pushed by Governor Andrew CuomOn Long Island, incumbent Republican Senator Jack Martins has been touting a vote for pay equity ahead of expected attacks on his opposition to an abortion rights bill pushed by Governor Andrew Cuomon his opposition to an abortion rights bill pushed by Governor Andrew Cuomo.