Sentences with phrase «for women seeking abortions»
1998 The New Jersey Senate Health Committee and Assembly Health Committee consider a bill proposing a mandatory 24 - hour delay for women seeking abortions.
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«Their crusades to shut down reproductive health centers and to mandate costly and invasive medical procedures for women seeking abortions have embarrassed the Commonwealth, and have inserted government between doctors and their patients.»
Yet DFS offers no estimate of how much, nor does it document how much of an obstacle copayments have been for women seeking abortions.
Three states adopted waiting period requirements for a woman seeking an abortion.
The June Coleman Fund is available for women seeking abortion services with a household income less than 250 % of the Federal Poverty Index, but not on a Maryland Medicaid plan.
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Norma McCorvey, left, was 22, unmarried, unemployed and pregnant for the third time when in 1969 she sought to have an abortion in Texas, where the procedure was illegal except to save a woman's life.
Carefully distinguishing the termination of a planned pregnancy from the abortions of «other» women, Christians are seeking theological justification for their decisions to terminate disabled fetuses.
Most Americans probably support the implicit moral position of mainstream Protestantism and perhaps of America's religious traditions in general: permit as few legal abortions as possible without damaging women's rights and without making it necessary for women to perform abortions on themselves or seek clandestine and possibly dangerous abortions.
«So let's work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies, and making adoption more available, and providing care and support for women who do carry their child to term,» Obama said to applause.
The current state Assemblyman didn't seek the Democratic endorsement, but he has been heavily criticized by the county committee — cast as an opportunist, whose votes on women's equality and abortion rights, for instance, don't correspond with the party's ideals.
Seeking to join them are the Women's Equality Party started by Cuomo's campaign, the Stop Common Core Party announced by Astorino and the Life and Justice Party, a group started by Michael Carey, its gubernatorial candidate, to oppose abortion rights and advocate for disabled people in state facilities....
The mailer includes Trump quotes about a wall along the U.S. - Mexican border he says he'll make Mexicans pay for, and his comments that «there has to be some form of punishment» for women who seek abortions.
Women's rights: Cuomo reiterated his support for abortion rights He wants to ban employers from asking job - seekers about their past pay, and will seek to require state contractors to report the gender and pay of employees.
He said that ethical and legal questions had to be answered, including whether the need for tissue would encourage women to seek abortions.
The decision, delivered by Justice Stephen Breyer, said that HB2 would place an «undue burden» on women's constitutional right to seek an abortion, particularly for those who are poor, disadvantaged, or living in rural areas.
Upholding Texas's HB2 could have bolstered similar efforts in other states, making it much harder for women across the country to seek an abortion.
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.
It is of particular relevance to women's equality and access to justice for a variety of reasons, including the fear that an ICBC adjuster can read about a woman's therapeutic abortion or sexual assault history, which may in turn prevent women from seeking damages in personal injury matters.
Because of the cost of some drug regimes, this has penalizing effects for certain groups of women, including pregnant women seeking medical abortions and women with HIV.
The study also finds that adolescents seeking care for complications from miscarriage or unsafe clandestine abortion experience severe complications at the same rate as older women (one severe complication per every four complications).
Proponents of such restrictions are ultimately seeking to make abortion inaccessible for U.S. women, and so are seeking to shutter Planned Parenthood health centers and any safety - net health center providing publicly funded family planning services that additionally offers abortions (using other funds), or is affiliated with an abortion provider.
Including the new requirements in South Dakota and Arizona, 18 states require that women seeking an abortion be given misleading information (see Counseling and Waiting Periods for Ababortion be given misleading information (see Counseling and Waiting Periods for AbortionAbortion).
Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, Inc. in Houston provides compassionate abortion services for women seeking to end a pregnancy.
For far too long, the United States has penalized low - income women seeking abortion — forcing those already struggling to make ends meet to pay the biggest proportion of her income for safe, legal caFor far too long, the United States has penalized low - income women seeking abortion — forcing those already struggling to make ends meet to pay the biggest proportion of her income for safe, legal cafor safe, legal care.
In Senegal, abortion is a crime, and women who seek an abortion can be imprisoned for up to five years.
With the addition of the new requirements in Texas and North Carolina, 26 states mandate that a woman seeking an abortion must wait a prescribed period of time between the counseling and the procedure; nine of these states require that the counseling be provided in person, a provision that requires the woman to make two trips to the facility (see Counseling and Waiting Periods for Ababortion must wait a prescribed period of time between the counseling and the procedure; nine of these states require that the counseling be provided in person, a provision that requires the woman to make two trips to the facility (see Counseling and Waiting Periods for AbortionAbortion).
The backlash against punishing abortion - seeking women is incomplete without acknowledging two points: First, ALL the Republican candidates for president want to outlaw abortion - and second, politicians have already been punishing women for years.
Online Documentary: Fazeelat Aslam, VICE.com, for her piece, «Misconception: The Fake Abortion Clinics of America» on VICE.com, which exposed the false information perpetuated by so - called «crisis pregnancy centers» and the harm they can do to women seeking care and the broader reproductive rights movement as a whole.
``... relief should be prompt, given the needs of women seeking abortions and the need for available clinics to serve their needs.»
Tallahassee, FL — Today on behalf of four women's health care centers and two individual physicians, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood Federation of America asked a federal court to strike down a new law that will endanger the health and lives of young women seeking abortions in Florida.
«This ordinance would have done nothing to improve the health and safety of women in St. Joseph County — instead, it would have created barriers for local women seeking safe, legal abortions,» said PPINK Vice President for Public Policy Patti Stauffer.
Breyer wrote that «the surgical - center requirement, like the admitting privileges requirement, provides few, if any, health benefits for women, poses a substantial obstacle to women seeking abortions and constitutes an «undue burden» on their constitutional right to do so.»
(CNN) Donald Trump on Tuesday night once again sought to strike a softer tone on Planned Parenthood, paying tribute to its «very good work for millions of women» while also keeping up a threat to cut off federal funding to the organization if it continues to offer abortion services.