Sentences with phrase «not access abortion»

Because of an increasingly restrictive legal environment and clinic closures across the country, abortion patients are facing new barriers to care, including the need to travel greater distances to access services.2, 20 Overcoming these challenges can be difficult or impossible, especially given that 75 % of abortion patients are low - income, and 59 % have already had a child and may have other family obligations.21 Whether a provider offers same - day contraceptive services is irrelevant if a patient can not access abortion care in the first place.
Adding a delay of three or four more weeks will mean many of these women can not access abortion at all.
Northern Ireland remains the only part of the UK where women can not access abortion unless their life is endangered by pregnancy — a legal situation that is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, according to a Belfast High Court ruling in 2015.

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And when a woman becomes pregnant within a loving, supportive, respectful relationship, has every option open to her, [and] decides she does not wish to bear a child; and has access to a safe, affordable abortion — there is not a tragedy in sight — only blessing.
We can ban abortion, restrict access to birth control but we can not help the babies live past one year old.
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.
Not only would improved access to contraception impact the abortion rate in the U.S., it would dramatically reduce maternal and infant deaths around the world.
Conservatives don't want women to have access to birth control... and if they get pregnant, they don't want those women to have abortions.
Lady O'Loan added her measures are not about reducing access to abortions or withdrawal of life - sustaining treatment.
This is basic common sense, and is fine as far as it goes, but it does not explain why pro-life advocates would struggle against easy access to abortion when they are not being personally oppressed by it, or why some men would hold pro-choice views when they can not become pregnant.
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:
First, I don't think the analogy comparing the death penalty to legal abortion access works.
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.
Overturning a lower court's decision that ruled that the laws unconstitutionally limited access to abortion in the state, New Orleans - based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals judges wrote, «on its face does not impose an undue burden on the life and health of a woman.»
However, the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Roe v. Wade indicates that the government can't put an «undue burden» on abortion access up to that point.
The symptoms are so similar that an online abortion group which sells pills to women in pro-life countries instructs women who suffer complications: «If you live in a place where abortion is a crime and you don't have a doctor you trust, you can still access medical care.
Women in Britain and women in South Africa have access to legal abortion, but in the end, a woman experiencing abortion complications in Britain can get emergency help within minutes; a woman living in an isolated settlement in South Africa can't.
New state - level laws restricting access to abortion likely have not contributed to the decline.
In 2007 it urged Poland «to ensure that women seeking legal abortion have access to it, and that their access is not limited by the use of the conscientious objection clause.»
Because research looked at the years of 2008 - 2011, the Institute says that the falling numbers were not the result of recent abortion - restricting legislative measures; instead, they pointed to the overall falling birth rate and greater access to contraception.
But, of course, whether or not unlimited access to abortion is guaranteed by the Constitution is precisely what the great legal debate is about.
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.
We can not violate our vows by participating in the government's program to provide access to abortion - inducing drugs.
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».
The majority felt that AIMSI must continue to support all women in choice and autonomy, not only in planned healthy pregnancies, but also where there are fatal foetal abnormalities, risk to life and health, and in terms of unplanned pregnancy, to continuing a pregnancy or to have access to safe legal abortion without travel.
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.
Just as we support access to safe and legal abortion, as well as access to parenting resources and support, should we not demand access to ethical adoption practices?
The truth about me, and my experience, is that I don't «fit» in these boxes: I am a young, educated, liberal, a whole - hearted supporter of access to safe and legal abortion - I am a birthmother, I have had an abortion, and some day I hope to be a parent.
This comes just two weeks after a Supreme Court case was heard in London concerning whether women from Northern Ireland, where abortion is generally not allowed, should have to pay to access abortions on the NHS in England.
Staten Island DA Dan Donovan has said he's pro-life, but has also pledged to uphold state laws on abortion and not seek to criminalize or limit access it in any way.
So when discussing access to particular health services, things like blood transfusions or abortion procedures many be against the religious beliefs of those that run the private hospitals, and thus not be provided.
Andrew Cuomo believes in the right of women to access abortion clinics but not in the right of sexual assault victims (the majority of whom are women) to access the Courts.
The plan's website says it does not cover abortion, sterilization, or artificial contraception, but adds: «As a member of Fidelis Care, you can secure such services through free access to the Medicaid program or through State Department of Health - contracted entities.»
it does not cover abortion, sterilization, or artificial contraception, but adds: «As a member of Fidelis Care, you can secure such services through free access to the Medicaid program or through State Department of Health - contracted entities.»
Democrats said the changes in Smith's bill would likely lead to a large number of women losing access to comprehensive health insurance coverage because small business owners would have an incentive to offer plans that don't cover abortion.
Clearly, strict abortion laws do not stop abortions from happening, but can make them less safe by causing delay and restricting access.
Yesterday, a high court judgement ruled that women from Northern Ireland are not entitled to access abortion free of charge through the NHS in England.
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 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.
Access to safe family planning options not only allows women to become more economically productive but would also result in a 75 % decline in unintended pregnancies, unplanned births and induced abortions in developing regions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive justice and sexual health research institution.
A discreet advert highlighting where anxious women can access pregnancy counselling and abortion services is not going to encourage young girls to become pregnant.
At issue in Watson / Spratt was whether or not the Access to Abortion Services Act is a justifiable interference with freedom of expression rights.
The Act did not limit the protestors» freedom of expression completely, but disallowed it within a certain zone to ensure equal, safe and dignified access to abortion services.
The exchange is the only place where premium subsidies are available, and advocates for reproductive rights have noted that in those 25 states (along with six other states where insurers are allowed to include coverage for abortion on their exchange plans but have chosen not to do so), there is no access to affordable health insurance with abortion coverage.
Bowers, who has a zero percent rating from the Stonewall Democrats of America, opposes access to abortion and does not support medically accurate sex education.
Previous studies also failed to show significant differences in pregnancy or abortion rates among women with advance provisions of EC.6, 7,19 It is possible that the effect of increased access on pregnancy rates is truly negligible because EC is not as effective as found in the single - use clinical trials, or because women at highest risk do not use EC frequently enough or at all.
The 18th district is currently represented in the Senate by Jeff Dial, whose voting record belies a lack of support for contraception access — his vote for HB 2599 helped lay the groundwork to deny state Medicaid recipients the right to receive preventive health care and birth control from Planned Parenthood — as well as his opposition to abortion — as illustrated by his vote in favor of SB 1324, which put severe restrictions around the use of medication abortion, which don't even comply with FDA regulations.
I am going to tell you the cost of not having access to the services Planned Parenthood provides — including contraception, screening for domestic violence, and, yes, abortion.
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