Sentences with phrase «expansion of abortion»

It's this last provision that has many Republicans upset, who are calling it an expansion of abortion in the state.

«Clearly what the governor's language is going to do is expand abortion in the state that least needs an expansion of abortion,» Gallagher said.

They included mandated services, Catholic schools, immigrants, farm workers, prisons, and «my fears about the radical expansion of abortion.»

«It's been mischaracterized as an expansion of abortion rights which is not true,» said Hochul, who says the aim of the bill is to make sure New York's 1970 abortion laws are updated and are consistent with the current federal protections, in case the U.S. Supreme Court ever reverses Roe v. Wade.

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos told reporters this morning that his conference was firmly opposed to the womens reproductive health act, an expansion of abortion rights that is at the centerpiece of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's equality for women legislative package.

«The way I look at this legislation is that number one it really is an expansion of abortion and partial - birth abortion,» Skelos said.

A measure that supporters say would codify Roe v. Wade in state law has also failed to gain a vote as opponents contend it is an unnecessary expansion of abortion rights.

«There are a number of Democratic members of Congress who are calling themselves pro-life, but it's hard to do that after voting for healthcare, which was the largest expansion of abortion we've seen,» says Tom Minnery, senior vice president of CitizenLink, a conservative advocacy group connected to Focus on the Family that is also spending money this cycle.

Not exact matches

There were hardly any questions about issues that most Christians would consider to have a peculiarly moral character, such as abortion, but intense interest in topics such as the expansion of NATO.

The deconstruction of marriage, abortion on demand, legalization of marijuana, acceptance of pornography, expansion of gambling, provisions for doctor - assisted suicide — progressives either endorse or refuse to speak up against these and other policies and trends.

The push would reignite a heated debate over the RHA, a measure that is aimed at the codification of Roe v. Wade in state law and is deeply opposed by opponents of abortion, who have argued it's a needless expansion of existing rights in New York.

«Expansion of late term abortion is extreme in my opinion.

Republicans balked at the abortion provision, which supporters contended codified the Roe v. Wade ruling in state law, but opponents said was a needless expansion of the current law in New York.

Planned Parenthood has been complicit in holding sensible reforms that would benefit women across the state hostage to an expansion of later term abortion.

Sheehan called Schneiderman a «leader» on the abortion - rights issue, citing his expansion of buffer zones around Planned Parenthood facilities in upstate cities.

The women's agenda is a 10 - point package of bills that includes a provision aimed at codifying the Roe v. Wade decision in state law — a plank that abortion opponents say is an expansion of the existing state law.

Sure, Senate Republicans have stopped some bills from becoming law, like late - term abortion expansion and publicly financed elections for all state offices, but I can't remember the last time they were driving ideas of their own.

A measure that is aimed at codifing the Roe v. Wade decision in state law is opposed by Senate Republicans and opponents of abortion say it is an expansion of existing protections.

Sen. Greg Ball, R - Putnam County, blamed «an extreme leftist movement» for insisting on the abortion plank, which Republicans view as an expansion of existing abortion rights.

«Whether people are pro choice or pro life, most of them do not believe in the expansion of late term abortion,» Skelos said recently.

Since 2010, the United States has witnessed a dramatic expansion of state - based restrictions on abortion.

Topics will include: abortion access, criminal justice reform, the expansion of religious exemptions, anticipated state policy changes, and more.

The 2005 expansion of the Ethiopian abortion law provided minors access to legal abortions, yet little is known about abortion among adolescents.

Missouri's Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has blocked expansion of medication abortion services in the state through regulations implementing Senate Bill 5, according to a suit filed by two Planned Parenthood affiliates.

That worry about healthcare access was likely heightened by Trump's expansion of the «global gag rule,» which removes U.S. family planning funds from foreign groups that are involved in abortion services, even in referring patients to get them.

By 1999, the need for further expansion was recognized and a formal program in OB / GYN residencies — later named the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning — was established, led by Landy out of the Bixby Center at UCSF.

A short - lived but crucial era of abortion rights expansion followed.

His plan (which mentions restricting access to «abortion» nine times) includes an expansion of the harmful Hyde Amendment.