A proud announcement to start the rundown this week: We are NOT backing down in our fight to
expand access to abortion, birth control, and reproductive health care across the country!
The bill builds on the successful effort Senator Shaheen led to
expand access to abortion for military servicewomen at the end of last year.
Interventions are needed to
expand access to abortion services through better equipping existing facilities, ensuring adequate and continuous supplies of medication abortion drugs, and by increasing the number of trained providers.
These bills provide a roadmap for state policymakers seeking to fight government interference within the patient - provider relationship, promote women - centered approaches in the provision of abortion and other reproductive health care services, and enact legislation that emphasizes the need to
expand access to abortion.
Critics, however, have expressed concerns about the bill's language, which they argue could
expand access to abortion.
«Nothing the governor will propose would
expand access to abortion but rather only codify existing rights under federal law and court precedent in to state law.»
Among the most significant criticisms was language which may
expand access to abortions beyond the point of fetal viability so long as the procedure «is necessary to protect the pregnant female's life or health.»
Not exact matches
Perhaps most troubling was her recent statement at a Women in the World Conference where she suggested that in order
to expand worldwide
access to abortion, «deep - seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases have
to be changed.»
The authors give us a hint: «Our expectations for EC's effectiveness were biased upward by an early estimate that
expanding access to EC could dramatically reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy and subsequent
abortion.
Supporters of
abortion and reproductive rights expect
to renew an effort
to approved measures like the Reproductive Health Act and
expand access to contraceptives as Donald Trump's presidency looms next year.
They demand Schumer stand up for liberal issues like
expanding healthcare, immigrant rights,
access to birth control and
abortion, LGBTQ rights, environmental concerns and labor laws.
«The Appropriations bill is an important step in the right direction when it comes
to women's health — holding the line on deeply unpopular
abortion restrictions and
expanding access for Peace Corps volunteers.
This was an important step in the right direction, but there is still clear work
to be done
to reject any attempt
to take away this right and
to expand comprehensive
access to reproductive health services by removing
abortion restrictions altogether.
Planned Parenthood Texas Votes is a statewide advocacy organization that will engage supporters of women's health
to fight
to protect and
expand women's
access to preventative and reproductive care, including
abortion.
Across the country, lawmakers like Nixon in a growing number of states are fighting back dangerous restrictions and championing measures
to expand and protect
access to birth control, basic preventive care, and
abortion.
Judge Howard Sachs» opinion means that PPGP and PPSLR will be able
to expand abortion access to four additional health centers across the state of Missouri while both organizations fight
to permanently overturn these ideologically motivated restrictions.
Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP) and Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region (RHS) are continuing the fight
to expand access to safe, legal
abortion in our state.
Twenty - one states adopted proactive measures
to expand access to reproductive health services or
to protect reproductive rights in 2017; notably, this total includes some measures related
to abortion, in addition
to contraception or other topics.