Sentences with phrase «deny women access»

Politicians in Texas have worked tirelessly to deny women access to safe abortion, affordable birth control and cancer screenings,» said Yvonne Gutierrez, executive director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes.

But she really hit the big time, when she attached a provision that would allow any employer to deny women access to preventive care based on a «moral objection» during the fight that led to the government shutdown.

Massapequa Park, NY — More than 30 Planned Parenthood of Nassau County (PPNC) and Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic (PPHP) volunteers, advocates, peer educators and staff members rallied outside of Congressman Peter King's Massapequa Park office on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 to protest his attempts to defund family planning and deny women access to preventive health care.

Mike Pence is the original crusader against Planned Parenthood, and he's fought for years to deny women access to safe, legal abortion.

Despite that, some anti-women's health politicians and bosses are still fighting to deny women access to affordable birth control.

Demand that politicians stop passing unconstitutional laws clearly designed to deny women access to a safe, legal abortion.

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

As of today, a combination of automated phone calls, live calls, e-mails and Web ads are going out that accuse Buerkle of voting with «extremists to deny women access to lifesaving healthcare services and restrict their reproductive freedoms.»

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.»

The federal government has no authority to deny these women access to abortion services and we are confident that federal courts will overwhelmingly agree.

«That's right, Katko even said denying women access to contraception is the «right decision.»»

The DCCC's claim that Katko said «denying women access to contraception is the «right decision»» stems from comments the Republican challenger made about the Hobby Lobby decision in an interview with The Citizen.

Does Katko believe denying women access to birth control is the «right decision,» as Democrats suggest?

But they quoted him as saying that denying women access to birth control is the «right decision.»

«At a time when more and families are uninsured and under economic assault, President Bush is fueling the health care crisis by denying women access to quality, affordable care,» said Reina Schiffrin, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic.

Some abortion opponents, however, take issue with the argument that the policy denies women access to family planning services.

«Politicians and bosses have no business denying women access to this basic health care.

Perry has already cut off 130,000 Texas women from basic preventive health care, including lifesaving cancer screenings and well - woman checkups, and now by virtually banning abortion he's further denying women access to health care.

To circumvent federal law preventing Texas from denying women access to qualified providers like Planned Parenthood, state lawmakers in January 2012 dismantled the Medicaid Women's Health Program.

But antiabortion forces, in their zeal to slay their bête noire, are actually attempting something sure to increase the number of abortions: Denying women access to birth control.

Not exact matches

Extreme politicians at every level of government are doing everything they can to block millions of people from coming to Planned Parenthood, deny access to affordable health care, and roll back women's rights over their own bodies.

«Donald Trump's administration is handing out permission slips for hospitals and providers to deny individuals, including women and LGBT patients, access to a full range of health services including life saving emergency care.

There is even disagreement among Christians about this, (and historically, even among evangelicals), so was it really my place to deny a woman who has been raped, for example, access to a morning - after pill?

But it didn't apply as far as the school that wanted to deny access to women was concerned either because their school wasn't open to persons, it was open to men (or boys).

In this case the Church is trying to deny easy access to contraception for women who don't agree with the Church's current religious dogma on this issue and would use contraception if available.

Feminists who claim that women are denied access to their own reality are supported by Whitehead's insistence that implicit notions of what is important are embedded in language, thereby imposing perspectives of importance on what is experienced (MT 15).

Honestly, it is surprising that it took insurance companies this long to wake up to the fact that they are paying either way — for the c - sections that don't get done when they should, those that get done poorly (regardless of whether they were necessary) or when a woman is denied access to a vaginal birth after cesarean, which is happening more and more...

«But a lot of the sentiment you're covering with that criticism also sets aside the feelings of many women that birth and baby care has become over-medicalized, that their experiences and understandings are routinely swept aside, and that they've been denied access to, or discouraged from, more traditional ways of doing things in situations where it would harm no one and might have been the better option.»

We can't let a Tea Party agenda prevail — it would take us back decades to a world where workers are denied rights, women are denied access to contraception coverage, and where the environment is under siege».

Yet, unlike women in the rest of the UK, they are denied access to legal and free abortions.

17:49 - Great video from the brilliant Don't Panic, which shows the BNP denying access to a meeting to ethnic minority Brits but allowing white immigrants - in this case a Swedish woman - entry.

That silence has had serious consequences for women and girls, who are denied access to feminine hygiene products, charged more at the cash register for «women's» versions of household items, and made to feel ashamed about their bodies.

ACCESS DENIED After decades of research, reproductive biologists are on the verge of developing new birth control options that stop sperm from maturing or save a woman's eggs for later.

Although initially sceptical about the need for change, as the blinders are ripped from her eyes Maud realizes she must play her part to secure a brighter future for women across the country — which means equal pay, parental rights for mothers, access to education and a slew of other human rights — all of which she and other women of all social and economic classes were denied.

The resources exist and yet on a daily basis all over the world women, men and children are denied access to their fundamental human right to education, health, water, sanitation and food security.

It is certainly not realistic to hope that a majority of men, in the arts, or in any other field, will soon see the light and find that it is in their own self - interest to grant complete equality to women, as some feminists optimistically assert, or to maintain that men themselves will soon realize that they are diminished by denying themselves access to traditionally «feminine» realms and emotional reactions.

In addition to the Photographese exhibition, Lensational will also launch a fundraising event in partnership with Daughters Rising, an organisation that works with stateless Burmese women who have no official identity or citizenship in Thailand and are denied access to formal education, healthcare and employment, and aggressively targeted by traffickers.

Throughout the ages, hand - crocheted blankets have provided comfort and warmth, and have often been an important vehicle for artistic expression by women denied access to a mostly male - dominated art spectrum.

West Coast LEAF intervened in the distinct matter of «public interest standing» being denied to these women through their representative organization — to argue that such organizations ought to be able to bring forward important constitutional cases on behalf of the many women who do not have effective access to the justice system on their own.

TUC Report finds women and children have been disproportionately affected by the devastating impact of LASPO, by Emma Fitzsimons Prior its enactment, campaigners warned that the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 («LASPO») 1 would decimate legal aid, deny access to justice to thousands of vulnerable litigants and prove to be a false economy, shifting the burden to an already understaffed court system and overburdened legal aid services sector.

The suggestion that there is an analogy between their struggle to achieve equality and these petitioners» concerted efforts to deny women equal access to a constitutionally protected privilege may have rhetorical appeal, but it is insupportable on the record before us...» Justice Stevens also noted that Bray «presents a striking contemporary example of the kind of zealous, politically motivated, lawless conduct that led to the enactment of the Ku Klux Act in 1871 and gave it its name.»

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.

For too long, women have been denied full access to their right of making their own health care decisions — Planned Parenthood affords them that right.

From holding immigrant women hostage to deny their right to safe, legal abortion to attacking more than 62 million women's access to birth control and evidence - based programs such as the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP), Trump appointees have abused their power to advance an anti-reproductive rights agenda — and they show no sign of letting up.

Many high - conflict / abusive personality disordered women badmouth their children's father, alienate the children's affection, deny access to the children and generally undermine dad.

Why are so many Aboriginal mothers and babies denied access to the mothers and baby units in women's prisons?

This important legislation protects women's access to basic, preventive health care and ensures that women will not be denied birth control or emergency contraception at the pharmacy counter.

«Planned Parenthood urges President Bush to sign this important and bipartisan legislation that will ensure more children and pregnant women get access to quality, affordable health insurance, and not deny millions of children access to health care.

«The law already has increased women's access to reproductive care, but baseless repeal efforts and lawsuits threaten to take away early gains and deny affordable health care to millions of Americans.»

And they demand a president who will protect access to safe and legal abortion — who is tough enough to stand up to anyone who would deny women the right to make their own health decisions!