It also prohibits state
funding of any abortion provider for preventive health care services like cancer screening, contraception services and STD testing and treatment.
A little longer ago there was the
murder of the abortion provider in Topeka, and who could forget that little war in Iraq (that we all know was about religion and oil, not weapons of mass destruction)
Last week, over protests from thousands of Ohioans statewide, Governor John Kasich signed a budget into law without exercising his line - item veto to strike a Targeted
Restriction of Abortion Providers (TRAP) provision prohibiting transfer agreements with public hospitals, a mandatory ultrasound provision, as well as a measure designed to block funds for preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers in Ohio.
But before I did, I decided to discuss the issue with several medical professionals, some of whom are on the «pro-life» side and others of whom are on the «pro-choice» side, including a
handful of abortion providers.
Following a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that allowed the immediate enforcement of a state law blocking women from getting services from one -
third of abortion providers in the state, reproductive health care providers have taken their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
All the information presented was thoroughly reviewed by members of the Planned Parenthood Education Division and our
Consortium of Abortion Providers to check for both medical accuracy and health literacy.
Nonetheless, in 2011, according to an HHSC spokesperson, Perry and his attorney general, Greg Abbott, directed the HHSC to write into its laws language that would defund Planned Parenthood because it was an «affiliate»
of the abortion provider of the same name.
The report notes that the reduction in the number of women served is «due, in part, to the change in the provider base» that occurred with the 2012
exclusion of abortion providers and affiliates.
Ted Cruz supported the Texas bill HB2, the Texas anti-abortion law that has already shut down more than
half of the abortion providers in the state and has forced some women to wait as long as 20 days, drive hundreds of miles, and make multiple trips to access safe, legal abortion.
This deeply powerful profile of Dr. Parker's life and career, in a mainstream outlet targeted at men, was a truly remarkable contribution to our efforts to demystify and destigmatize the
lives of abortion providers across the country.
2012 Philip Darney, MD, MSc and Uta Landy, PhD Through the development of an abortion and family planning training program, Philip Darney, MD, MSc, and Uta Landy, PhD, are greatly responsible for the preparation of a new
generation of abortion providers.
It is clearly an unnecessary, extravagant, over-regulation that will result in more than half of Arizona's miniscule
population of abortion providers becoming ineligible to provide care.
Each year, more Targeted
Regulation of Abortion Provider (TRAP) laws are introduced into state legislatures to further restrict medical professionals from providing safe, legal abortions.
She says there's a documented «deeply troubling history» of violence against groups that defend a women's right to choose abortion, including
murders of abortion providers, like Buffalo obstetrician Bernard Slepian, as well as clinic bombings and arsons.
But that hasn't stopped the anti-women's health movement from dialing up efforts to eliminate access to abortion through the introduction of TRAP («targeted
restrictions of abortion providers») bills and regulations that place unreasonable requirements on health care centers.
Despite Planned Parenthood's propaganda, ending taxpayer
funding of abortion providers will have little impact on a woman's access to healthcare.
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.
The film's nationwide release, timed for social impact, comes just as the U.S. Supreme Court takes on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the landmark case that will determine the constitutionality of «TRAP» (Targeted Regulation
of Abortion Providers) laws.
This Saturday night, Sexy Beast, A Benefit for Planned Parenthood will honor Emmy - nominated director Dawn Porter, whose feature new documentary Trapped follows reproductive health clinics struggling to stay open in the face of nearly 300 TRAP laws (Targeted Regulations
of Abortion Providers).
Planned Parenthood Great Plains Interim President and CEO Aaron Samulcek explained that the affiliates are fighting Senate Bill 5, a targeted regulation
of abortion providers (TRAP) law, because it «will force some women to wait weeks for an abortion, travel hundreds of miles, or lose access altogether.»