Sentences with phrase «federal abortion policy»

As the progressive site Think Progressreported, the Hyde Amendment set the status quo for federal abortion policy and «spawned similar restrictions banning abortion coverage for government employees, Peace Corps volunteers, federal inmates, military personnel, and Native American women.»

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The organization... [will] make the argument that... the federal courts... are the final authority on issues important to progressives such as immigration, abortion, gay rights, social policy, the environment and corporate power, to name a few.

A federal judge denied Hobby Lobby's request for an injunction against the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) contraceptive mandate on Monday, ruling that the arts - and - crafts giant must cover emergency contraceptives in its insurance policies even though it believes the pills cause abortions.

The rule — first implemented by President Reagan at a 1984 conference in Mexico City — prohibits international family planning organizations from receiving federal funds unless they agree not to perform or counsel for abortions or lobby in order to liberalize the pro-life policies of foreign governments.

In his most recent State of the State address, he listed several priorities, including reforming the criminal justice system, holding pharmaceutical distributors responsible for their role in the opioid crisis and fighting the federal government on its tax plan and policies on immigration, abortion, the environment and health care.

Leading conservative voices — including The Wall Street Journal's editorial page and The Weekly Standard and the talk show personalities Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck — took on the Republican nominee, Assemblywoman Scozzafava, who supports gay rights and abortion rights and had embraced some Democratic economic policies like the federal stimulus package.

That policy prevents foreign nonprofit groups that receive federal funds from administering abortions or providing abortion counseling or referrals.

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That all changed at the end of 2014 when, after months of negotiations, the U.S. Congress finally passed a funding bill with bipartisan support that amended this policy to ensure that Peace Corps Volunteers have equitable coverage for abortion in cases of rape, incest, and to protect the life of the woman, consistent with the coverage that federal employees and women serving in the military receive.

A small, but important, technical fix to this policy clarifies that Peace Corps volunteers and trainees should be able to access abortion in these cases, consistent with other areas of federal law.

People on this type of assistance can't use federal funding for abortion because of an unfair federal policy called the Hyde Amendment (which has very narrow exceptions).

«We will see lots of copycat laws of the federal abortion ban, and the envelope will be pushed and expanded to include a longer list of banned procedures,» says Roger Evans, senior director for public policy, litigation and law at Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York City.

A small technical fix to this policy would clarify that Peace Corps volunteers and trainees should be able to access abortion in these cases, consistent with other areas of federal law.

We will continue to oppose — and seek to overturn — federal and state laws and policies that impede a woman's access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment.

By attempting to deny all federal Title X funds to agencies that perform any abortions with their own funds, the Vitter amendment defies more than 20 years of state and federal policy - making jurisprudence, both before and after the Reagan administration gag rule.

President Trump took another swipe at Obama - era policies, signing legislation that would allow states to deny federal family planning funds to Planned Parenthood, as well as other organizations that provide abortion services.

With the enactment of the federal Hyde amendment in 1976 and comparable policies in the majority of states, opponents have made major strides toward banning the direct use of public dollars for abortion.

Donovan MK, In real life: federal restrictions on abortion coverage and the women they impact, Guttmacher Policy Review, 2017, 20: 1 — 7, https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2017/01/real-life-federal-restrictions-abortion-coverage-and-women-they-impact.