Sentences with phrase «for abortion access»

Missouri's Planned Parenthood affiliates are taking the fight for abortion access to the U.S. Supreme Court!

These outdated abortion laws often mean that people have to travel outside of the state for abortion access, even for emergency health procedures.

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«Brazil and other countries in Latin America are really good examples of what it looks like when you set up barriers to access for abortions,» said Mónica Arango, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights.

They ranged from raising the minimum wage, passing gun safety laws, paid family leave, equal pay for women, and protecting access to «safe and legal abortions.»

For instance, once you have an opinion about abortion access, it is fairly difficult for movements to get people to change their vieFor instance, once you have an opinion about abortion access, it is fairly difficult for movements to get people to change their viefor movements to get people to change their views.

All this changed when the sexual revolution and the rise of feminism ushered in easy divorce, the expectation of a career outside the home for married women, ready access to contraception and abortion, and the gay - rights movement.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

Almost all of the coverage of the Lancet findings suggests that this decline in abortions correlates to increased access to contraceptives — for obvious reasons.

In Sweden, for example, an increase in affordable access to contraception and the presence of free contraceptive counseling have paralleled a substantial increase in the teen abortion rate.

The best way of testing this (putting aside ethical concerns for a moment) would be to conduct an experiment in which one group did not have access to confidential abortion and another did, and then we could monitor the differences between them.

Proponents for an individual's reproductive rights support data suggesting comprehensive sex education and birth control reduce abortion rates when young people have access to them.

The response of the last government was essentially more of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.

How dare these women insist that their abortions are appropriate and moral, while simultaneously attempting to destroy abortion access for every other woman in the country?

Lader argued that since early abortions are statistically safer for the woman than childbirth, and since the morality of such abortions is a matter of religious and philosophical dispute, the state ought not to prevent women from having legal access to abortion services:

The Congress seems for the most part to agree with the media, if passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinics» Entrance Act» the act that narrowed the First Amendment rights of abortion protestors as an entire class of citizens» is any indication.

There is a fairly constant onslaught on the fundamental right to life — from Ireland with its proposed referendum on permitting abortion, to campaigns for increased access to abortion and euthanasia in many parts of the world.

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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.

Thus, the stage is already set for the creation of a positive right to die here that could, one dark day, subsume the religious liberty of doctors not to participate — as is occurring now in Canada, and afflicts pro-life doctors in Victoria, Australia regarding access to abortion.

Look, stupid, you can pay to prevent pregnancy, or you can stop attempting to prevent women from accessing legal abortion, or you can pay for kids that weren't wanted in the first place.

Experts point to a recent confluence of four main factors: rising access to sonogram technology, increased access to abortion, a preference for sons, and fertility decline.

No one is being denied access to birth control or abortions, it's a question of who should have to pay for it.

They are so wedded to this connection that when President Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which denies American aid to any NGO that provides, counsels, or refers for abortion, or that promotes a change in a country's laws towards permitting access to abortion, not a single NGO (as far as I am aware) agreed to sever its contraception work from its abortion advocacy.

The Department's parliamentary under - secretary, Baroness Morgan, pronounced that the bill «does not, for instance, require Catholic schools to teach young people where to access an abortion».

We should note at this point that for a school to provide information enabling sexually active pupils «to access» abortion and contraception is, according to Catholic teaching, «formal cooperation» with the grave evils of, respectively, murder and sex outside marriage.

Pro-choice agencies that support a woman's right to choice and access to all options - while it is not essential for the potential birth - or adoptive parents to subscribe to a particular value around abortion, it is absolutely essential that the agencies working with pregnant women and their loved ones not be in a position of coercion based on disapproval of abortion.

«MSI is also calling for healthcare professionals to provide women with comprehensive contraceptive information and access to the full range of modern methods via dedicated client consultations, and for more investment in training for healthcare professionals in fitting long acting reversible contraceptive methods (LARCs), which are a critical part of the Government's strategy to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions in the UK.»

MSI has developed this new online resource for anyone interested in, or working towards, legal or practical reforms to ensure every woman's right to access safe abortion services wherever she lives in the world.»

In response to a question from Patrick Harvie MSP at First Minister's Questions, Nicola Sturgeon has announced her support for Northern Irish women to access free, safe, and legal abortion services through the NHS in Scotland.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, who has never been one for mincing words, particularly when it comes to women's issues, likened Republican efforts to limit access to abortion in the budget battle to «an old German Nazi move,» and accused her colleagues across the aisle of wanting to «kill women.»

The new chair of the House Rules Committee came under attack for proposing a constitutionally questionable procedural maneuver to pass the controversial Affordable Care Act in 2010, refused to hold town hall meetings during the height of the Tea Party movement, and compared Republicans to Nazis during a fight over abortion access in 2011.

For me, both a rejection of fetal personhood and a commitment to adult women's right to control their own body, requiring in turn unrestricted access to abortion, is pretty central to transhumanist values.

At 10:30 a.m., Concerned Clergy for Choice members hold a press conference expressing support for access to contraception, safe and legal abortion, and the funding to provide these basic medical services, LCA Press Room (104), LOB, Albany.

Koppell had been pushing for a more progressive agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion plank.

They also said that they want open access to safe, legal and affordable abortion and birth control for all people.

Europe must stand for access to the whole range of sexual and reproductive services — including access to safe abortion when needed — here at home in Europe, and in partnership with other governments around the world.

Nicola Sturgeon has announced her support for Northern Irish women to access free, safe, and legal abortion services through the NHS in Scotland

Since the 60s, when women's liberation movements stood up and called for sweeping changes to access to equal pay, divorce and abortion, the passionate demonstrations, speeches and rallies have gradually gone quiet.

Rich women will always be able to access abortion, while poor or undocumented migrant women will continue to be forced either to continue unwanted or dangerous pregnancies, or risk prosecution for carrying out DIY abortions.

Likely voters side with Obama over Romney on key issues, including keeping so - called Obamacare in tact, eliminating tax cuts for those earning more than $ 250,000, Medicare, and protecting abortion rights and women's access to contraception.

Assembly Democrats want to guarantee access to abortion for New York state residents if the Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

In addition to a steady supply of free condoms — which are already available to students — Christine Quinn has pushed for the program, one of the first of its kind in the nation, stating that since kids are having unprotected sex and getting pregnant, they should also have access to the abortion drug.

Klein has countered by calling for votes on a variety of key, hot - button issues that are supported by the Democratic base, but not have the needed support in the sharply divided chamber, such as strengthening abortion rights and access to tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants.

Those without access to such funds will be forced to continue an unwanted pregnancy (which again, is likely to have severe financial implications for someone who can not afford an abortion), or they will resort to an illegal and potentially unsafe method of ending the pregnancy.

But a slew of Democrats defended the need for a women's issues party today, and railed against what they deemed efforts to rein in women's access to contraceptives or abortion.

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.

«Serious candidates running for state - wide office respect New Yorker's beliefs in ensuring women's access to comprehensive reproductive health care services — including abortion,» M. Tracey Brooks, the president of Planned Parenthood Advocates, said then in a statement comparing Astorino to «radical statements of the national Republican Party» and saying his «position reflects his inability to represent the people of the state of New York.»

But although she sees both equal pay and abortion access as important issues — «Choice is really important to me; I'm at a loss for words at how strongly I feel about it,» she tells me at one point — they're not the key issues in her campaign.

The government was also concerned that the requirement for two signatures «may be causing delays in access to abortion services.»

Most said they supported Weprin over Republican candidate Bob Turner because of Weprin's support for abortion rights and access to birth control.