Sentences with phrase «many women seek abortion»

«The mortality rate decreases radically when abortion is legalized, because women seek abortions in a safe, medical environment,» said Barroso.

In fact, banning abortion may actually have an adverse effect on reducing the number of women seeking abortions.

But should a pro-lifer raise her voice, use vivid language, or, heck, even pray in front of an abortion clinic, she will often be accused of intimidation and of posing a threat to the safety of women seeking abortions and those who provide them.

This is pretty surprising, since most often we think of women seeking abortions as single, scared and coerced by some withdrawn male.

We, as a society, must take away as many of the reasons women seek abortions as possible.

President Obama believes we should be working together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions.

In his 2009 Notre Dame address, Obama called upon abortion rights supporters and opponents to «work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions.»

The law, recently enacted in Texas, where women seeking an abortion are required to be raped, is one example of these «abortion prevention» measures.

And they say the sonogram law Perry signed requires doctors to read biased information to women seeking abortions.

In Bray v. Alexandria Women's Clinic (1993), the Court examined whether anti-abortion demonstrators could be held liable — under the Ku Klux Klan act of 1871 (amended in 1985)-- of conspiring to deprive women of the equal protection of the laws by depriving women seeking abortions of their right to interstate travel.

«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.

Yet DFS offers no estimate of how much, nor does it document how much of an obstacle copayments have been for women seeking abortions.

Currently most NHS abortions are carried out by two charities BPAS and Marie Stopes International who also provide counselling to women seeking an abortion.

This week, MPs will vote on an amendment tabled by Dorries and Field that would give the NHS a duty to provide independent counselling to women seeking an abortion, from organisations that do not themselves provide abortions.

«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.»

Walker will review a bill in the next two weeks that would require a woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound.

Non-Christians, smokers, drinkers, hedonists, single mothers, divorced people, atheists, and women seeking abortions will all have to fear if this illogical argument actually comes to bear.

«He said it happened in the first year he was on the bench, and he said it was a tough decision to write because he had to decide what was an «undue burden» on a woman seeking an abortion,» Mr. Durbin said.

Texas lawmakers hope so with the new Sonogram Law which outlines how doctors must deal with woman seeking abortions.

According to the Court, unnecessary health regulations that have the purpose or effect of presenting a substantial obstacle to a woman seeking an abortion impose an undue burden.

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 Abortion).

As of October 1, 2011, the State of Texas requires all women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound at least 24 hours before the abortion.

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 care.

Three states adopted waiting period requirements for a woman seeking an abortion.

At the beginning of 2012, it appeared that a number of states were poised to require a woman seeking an abortion to first undergo an ultrasound.

South Dakota and Arizona enacted provisions requiring a woman seeking an abortion to obtain counseling that includes inaccurate or irrelevant information.

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 Abortion).

1998 The New Jersey Senate Health Committee and Assembly Health Committee consider a bill proposing a mandatory 24 - hour delay for women seeking abortions.

``... relief should be prompt, given the needs of women seeking abortions and the need for available clinics to serve their needs.»

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.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS) applaud today's decision by the U.S. District Court in South Dakota striking down major portions of a South Dakota law that required doctors to give ideologically charged and misleading information to women seeking abortion care.

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.

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.»

Here's one of the areas on abortion with the most agreement: A whopping 87 percent of poll respondents said that a woman seeking an abortion should receive medically accurate information.

Meanwhile, the White House has set up a government office with the intent to allow discrimination against women seeking abortion.

A law requiring women seeking an abortion to make three visits to the doctor over two days.

«Kentucky faces a perfect storm of attacks: A legislature that continues to pass ever more onerous restrictions on women seeking a abortion, a governor with a personal personal crusade to shut down every clinic in the state, and escalating protests that recently culminated in a blockade that prevented patients from entering the front door.

Require providers to inform a woman seeking an abortion whether the abortion provider has admitting privileges at a nearby hospital as well as medical malpractice insurance (Kansas)

Not exact matches

Even in situations where abortion is legal, the process of finding a legitimate provider is time - consuming and difficult, forcing many women — particularly those who are young, poor, and uneducated — to seek out illegal options.

As Barroso explained, the black market nature of abortions in Brazil has attracted scam artists who exploit the vulnerability of women seeking to end their pregnancies.

In addition to the health threats, women who seek an illegal abortion in Brazil are under the constant threat of criminal action.

A disproportionate number of women who seek illegal abortions in Brazil are poor, young, and uneducated.

If abortion is illegal, women will seek back alley remedies.

This data underscores an important reality: that women will continue to seek out abortions even if they are illegal.

But how can we end abortion if we don't examine why women seek out abortions in the first place?

Furthermore, as I became more involved in the feminist conversation (some feminists are pro-life, of course, but many are pro-choice), I began to understand some of the arguments against the criminalization of abortion, like that banning abortion does not necessarily reduce the abortion rate, that enforcing a ban on all abortions would be impossible, and that women would likely seek out abortions through unsafe, illegal procedures anyway.

Not only are you having to spend the resources to imprison women who seek abortions but the individuals that provide them.

You're not looking at all the other reasons a woman would seek an abortion.

Organizations like Bethany Christian Services and Catholic Charities seek to help women get through their pregnancies and then go through the adoption process, rather than have an abortion.

Yet a million or more women each year, automatically excluded from the realm of legality, are forced to seek out a private abortionist, to attempt abortion on themselves, or, if they are unmarried, to bear the child illegitimately.