-- a pro-choice writer discovers that
even abortion providers are beginning to be emotionally affected by their actions:
Not exact matches
Even in situations where
abortion is legal, the process of finding a legitimate
provider is time - consuming and difficult, forcing many women — particularly those who are young, poor, and uneducated — to seek out illegal options.
«
Even in referral centers, which are specifically set up to provide information about
abortion, you find that
providers are not willing to perform
abortions,» Galli said.
Even now, some
abortion providers tell us that the majority of their clients are not «pro-choice.»
Cruz has been nearly monomaniacal in his fervor against
abortion —
even attempting to shut the government down again in 2015 over federal funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest
provider of reproductive health care.
In response to a pair of related inquiries made last year by Deuell and HHSC Commissioner Tom Suehs, Attorney General Greg Abbott opined that the state could keep Planned Parenthood from providing any WHP services — by blocking Medicaid funds for any health care
provider that's «affiliated» with an
abortion care
provider,
even if it doesn't provide
abortion services itself (see «Women's Health: Ideology First!
«From the beginning, this relentless campaign has been about one thing: antiabortion extremists who will do anything — lie, twist facts, villainize
providers, and
even reportedly break the law — in their quest to ban
abortion and block millions from accessing basic reproductive health care,» she said in a statement to The Washington Post.
In 2011, lawmakers rewrote
provider eligibility rules to exclude
abortion affiliates (i.e. Planned Parenthood) from the program,
even though none of the WHP
providers offered
abortion care.
In 2013, politicians in Ohio passed a new «catch - 22» law forbidding public hospitals from entering into such an agreement with an
abortion provider,
even though they can enter into such agreements with any other facility.
That means hospitals, health insurance plans, health care
providers, and non-medical personnel could refuse to provide, pay for, or
even refer for an
abortion —
even when the
abortion is medically necessary to save a woman's life or health.
This administration is carrying out a full - scale attack on birth control — eliminating insurance coverage for birth control, eliminating programs that help women with low incomes access birth control, and moving to prohibit health care
providers from
even giving women information about birth control or
abortion.
Abortion - rights groups say the clinics are lucky to break
even, and Planned Parenthood, one of the country's largest
providers, would likely