Sentences with phrase «of abortion procedure»

Defunding Planned Parenthood — which provides the majority of abortion procedures in the United States — has been at the center of the Republican political agenda for nearly two years.

In states like Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) have forced ridiculous rules onto clinics, doctors and patients to ultimately diminish the total number of abortion procedures.

Not exact matches

A new effort under President Donald Trump to protect the rights of health workers who object to abortions and other procedures will cost the health care system more than $ 300 million to implement.

Republican legislators sent Iowa's governor a bill early Wednesday that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, propelling the state overnight to the front of a push among conservative statehouses jockeying to enact the nation's most restrictive regulations on the procedure.

The UK's highest court has overturned a ruling made in favour of two Catholic midwives who object to any involvement in abortion procedures.

They are extremely rare procedures, as most abortions take place before the 9th week of gestation, when the fetus is nothing more then a ball of dividing cells.

Just as it is OK for a doctor to perform an operation or a medical procedure that has a good chance of causing an abortion in a pregnant woman.

Abortion, being a medical procedure, can be done in an environment where the woman will have the hgihest chance of a quick and safe procedure (for her at least).

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.

What frustrates me about the pro-choice movement is the lengths to which advocates go to de-humanize unborn children and sanitize the abortion procedure, reducing life to nothing more than a cluster of cells and the implications of pregnancy to little more than a choice.

I don't think you can be a pro-life feminist and argue that women need to be condescended to and «informed of what they're doing» as though they don't already know (cf. laws that institute mandatory waiting periods so they can «think it over,» which puts an untenable burden on those who have to travel for abortion procedures and do not have the money to do so).

As a result, states were permitted to outlaw abortion in the third trimester of pregnancy except when the procedure is necessary to preserve the life of the mother.»

Nothing revealed the radicalism of Roe quite so dramatically as the Court's invalidation of a Nebraska statute prohibiting the grisly procedure known as partial - birth abortion in the case of Stenberg v. Carhart.

The uninformed thought the [partial - birth] procedure gratuitously cruel, akin to infanticide; they didn't realize that the only difference between it and the methods of late - term abortion that are conceded all round to be constitutionally privileged is which way the fetus» feet are pointing.»

They will be on the spot, especially if the Bush Administration proves to be creative and determined in pressing the legal implications of the Act when it comes to hospitals that allow the killing by exposure (or more direct means) of children who survive abortion procedures.

(A case in point is that of a publicly supported, church - related hospital which is the only hospital in town and which refuses to permit certain medically accepted surgical procedures — such as abortion or tubal ligation — which are objectionable to the church but not to the patients of other faiths or no faith who depend upon that hospital for health care, and whose tax dollars support it.)

If he knowingly commits a post-24 weeks abortion, based on such stringent life and health criteria, the doctor must certify his judgment about the threat in writing; acquire the concurrence of a second doctor in that judgment based on a «separate personal medical examination» of the woman; perform the abortion in a hospital; employ procedures designed to maximize the unborn child's chances to survive; and have a second physician present, ready to consider any surviving child his primary patient.

Sparks also said that the video doesn't show evidence of Planned Parenthood violating ethical or medical standards or of them altering their abortion procedures just so they could get more fetal tissue, presumably for selling.

The reason: «Proponents of abortion rights overcame Americans» qualms about the procedure with a long series of claims about the benefits of unrestricted abortion on demand.

And it was Doe's broad definition of «health» as «well - being» that the Court would later use to strike down even bans on the cruel procedure known as partial - birth abortion.

Various connectors that trigger the memory of a past abortion, such as the death of a loved one, sounds (like that of a hoover, recalling the sound of the suction during the procedure) or even weather, can induce these symptoms unexpectedly.

These videos feature Planned Parenthood officials haggling over the cash value of fetal tissue and blithely talking about «crunchy» abortion procedures.

At this point, the abortion procedure has the appearance of a live birth.

Nebraska's position was buttressed by various statements of the American Medical Association, which had previously supported a federal version of the ban on partial «birth abortion, and which after expert study had been unable to identify any circumstance where partial «birth abortion was the only appropriate procedure.

According to Dr. Martin Haskell, a leading proponent of the procedure, the appropriate instrument to be used at this stage of the abortion is a pair of scissors....

Justice John Paul Stevens (joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) stated: «Although much ink is spilled today describing the gruesome nature of late «term abortion procedures, that rhetoric does not provide me a reason to believe that the procedure Nebraska here claims it seeks to ban is more brutal, more gruesome, or less respectful of «potential life» than the equally gruesome procedure [D&E] Nebraska claims it still allows.»

Notable defenders of the abortion license, such as Naomi Wolf, have conceded that abortion is no ordinary surgical procedure....

«Although public opinion on abortion has stayed relatively steady for four decades, support for legalizing the procedure under any circumstance spiked in the early 1990s, when today's fortysomethings were coming of age,» wrote Emma Green for The Atlantic in 2015.

Ahead of Friday's annual March for Life, pro-life Christians celebrated new federal protections for health care workers who decline to administer procedures such as abortion, sterilization, or euthanasia on religious or moral grounds.

«It is stomach - churning to hear a top doctor for the national Planned Parenthood organization admit, on videotape, that Planned Parenthood abortionists can and will alter late abortion procedures to facilitate the harvesting of intact baby body parts — she specifically mentioned hearts, lungs, livers, even intact heads — in order to fill specific pre-orders,» said National Right to Life president Carol Tobias in a statement.

But any medical procedure involves a level of risk and abortion is no different, legal or otherwise.

Lila Rose, the 21 - year - old leader of the group Live Action, posed as a 14 - year - old seeking an abortion who was told by a clinic employee that she could have someone with the same last name approve the procedure.

If the abortion lobby is going to highlight the risks to women of unsafe abortion, the logical response would surely be to campaign against a medically unnecessary procedure and to work instead to offer women the assistance they need when facing a difficult pregnancy?»

In comparison to other developed countries, the procedure is more available in the United States in terms of how late the abortion can legally be performed.

Moreover, I carefully pointed out that ethicists on this issue can basically be divided into two camps: those that view aborted fetuses as cadavers of a medical procedure and think that some good should come from abortions, and those that view aborted fetuses as victims of oppression, sin, and thoughtlessness, and therefore think that these victims should not be further exploited» especially under the guise of a «good cause.»

That all the persons subjected to the abortion procedure are female, and that casual sex leads to more rather than less of all of that.

Even so, there are many documented cases of women being denied coverage for medical procedures they need, like abortion or sterilization.

When parents choose to terminate a pregnancy because of severe medical conditions in the baby, the medical procedure is technically a second - trimester abortion or a «late - term» abortion — and it is technically elective because parents can choose whether to let nature take its course or to end the pregnancy.

being the largest provider of abortion services outside the NHS, performing over a third of all procedures in England and Wales each year.

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.

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

Before NOW - NYS supports this nominee, women need answers as to how Kagan will rule on issues of reproductive rights; abortion, contraception, and all forms of medical procedures that would affect a woman's privacy in making important decisions about her body.»

Proposals including Mr. Spitzer's plan to bolster state abortion laws in the wake of a Supreme Court decision restricting a disputed abortion procedure were not even the subject of serious talks.

Her mother paid # 600 for the procedure, some of which was covered by the Abortion Support Network, and described the process of raising the funds as «harrowing».

This means that the vast majority of those seeking abortion in Northern Ireland will need to travel to access a safe, legal procedure.

Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a «bad thing,» an «agonizing decision,» making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive.

As reported this weekend in the New York Times, Governor Andrew Cuomo is set to propose changes to the state's policies on abortion as part of his «Women's Equality Act» introduced during his State of the State Address that include allow health care practitioners, not solely physicians, from performing the procedure.

Abortion is just about the most emotionally - sensitive issue for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, but passions were kicked into overdrive in that afternoon's debate after Assemblyman Ron Castorina, a Republican who has been in the chamber for a little more than a month, compared the procedure to «African - American genocide.»

Abortion procedures change according to the gestation (stage) of the pregnancy.

I have recently watched a short documentary about abortion and refusal of performing such procedures due to religious reasons in my native country.