Regardless of any new science on the topic of when life begins, the issues
of access to abortion and the human rights of unborn children remain inherently political.
«The court had given opponents
of access to abortion a target to aim at relentlessly... My criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum that was on the side of change.»
In her eyes, by running ahead of the people, the now - infamous 1973 decision gave «opponents
of access to abortion a target to aim at relentlessly.»
Not exact matches
«Brazil and other countries in Latin America are really good examples
of what it looks like when you set up barriers
to access for
abortions,» said Mónica Arango, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
The combination
of restricted
access to abortion and increased Internet
access has led
to the rise
of Do - It - Yourself
abortions in the U.S., many
of which look remarkably like the illegal
abortions taking place in Brazil.
She also discussed some
of the women's health and family policies that she would prioritize in the White House, such as paid family leave and
access to birth control and safe
abortion.
But the New York real estate tycoon, who once supported
abortion access, has come under pressure from conservatives
to prove he is truly one
of them.
All this changed when the sexual revolution and the rise
of feminism ushered in easy divorce, the expectation
of a career outside the home for married women, ready
access to contraception and
abortion, and the gay - rights movement.
Well, if you look at the statistical analysis, you will find that as
abortion became legal and safe, the rate
of violent crime has dropped in this country — significantly and with a high correlation
to access to safe and legal
abortions.
The religious among us keep trying
to chip away at the separation
of church and state by making people recite the pledge
of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal
of prayer in public schools, trying
to pass laws limiting women's
access to birth control, and trying
to get an amendment passed outlawing
abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).
Almost all
of the coverage
of the Lancet findings suggests that this decline in
abortions correlates
to increased
access to contraceptives — for obvious reasons.
In Sweden, for example, an increase in affordable
access to contraception and the presence
of free contraceptive counseling have paralleled a substantial increase in the teen
abortion rate.
It is just this illusion
of sex without consequences, she maintains, that brought us
to the point
of needing widespread
access to abortion in the first place.
Most
of the countries where
abortion is illegal also suffer from widespread poverty and limited
access to contraception — huge drivers in the
abortion rate.
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.
This is very important because, although the remit
of the Teenage Pregnancy Unit is
to cut pregnancy rates, one
of its main policy recommendations that it emphasises year after year is
to provide youngsters with easier and better
access to confidential
abortion.
Our research is backed up by all the other academic papers which examine the impact
of easier
access to EBC on unwanted pregnancy or
abortion rates.
If
abortion is easily
accessed, then it acts
to alleviate some
of the risks
of having sex.
Even Anna Glazier, a health expert and a strong proponent
of greater
access to the morning - after pill, stated in early 2006 in an editorial in the British Medical Journal that greater
access to emergency birth control has failed
to cut pregnancy and
abortion rates.
The response
of the last government was essentially more
of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion
of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier
access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case
of underage girls.
The Connexions service, school nurse service and Healthy Schools standards are just a few
of the many routes whereby inappropriate sex education or
access to abortion and contraception may sneak in under the radar
of unwary teachers and governors.
Those who are on the front lines
of championing contraceptive
access to reduce
abortion in the developing world are having national impact among conservatives!
Lady O'Loan added her measures are not about reducing
access to abortions or withdrawal
of life - sustaining treatment.
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:
The writers
of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal,
abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles
to the
access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use
of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States
to «regulate and monitor the use
of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as
to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»
Given
access to abortion or gene therapy the decision could be made
to eliminate this fault
of nature.
Catholic schools are being forced
to make children aware that, without their parents» consent, they can
access medical contraception and
abortion services, (although we are allowed, kindly,
to add our «opinion»
of these activities).
The «gender equality» UN norm is inclusive
of and inseparable from the other UN norm
of «reproductive health and rights», which is itself inclusive, inter alia,
of «safe
abortion» and
of universal
access to contraceptive information and services by 2015.
Endorsing a man who publicly and privately promotes sexual promiscuity in hopes
of reducing
abortion is no less absurd than endorsing the candidate who promises increased
access to abortion.
The Congress seems for the most part
to agree with the media, if passage
of the Freedom
of Access to Clinics» Entrance Act» the act that narrowed the First Amendment rights
of abortion protestors as an entire class
of citizens» is any indication.
There is a fairly constant onslaught on the fundamental right
to life — from Ireland with its proposed referendum on permitting
abortion,
to campaigns for increased
access to abortion and euthanasia in many parts
of the world.
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Unfettered
access to abortion on demand has addressed none
of women's true needs; nor has it brought dignity
to women.
The authors give us a hint: «Our expectations for EC's effectiveness were biased upward by an early estimate that expanding
access to EC could dramatically reduce the incidence
of unintended pregnancy and subsequent
abortion.
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.
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.»
«As governor
of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a single - minded agenda: Take away women's health care, destroy Planned Parenthood, and block women's
access to safe
abortion care,» the Planned Parenthood Action fund wrote in a recent petition drive.
Traditionally, states have been able
to pass laws that prevent or limit
access to abortions after the point
of «viability,» currently thought
to be as young as around 22 weeks.
Experts point
to a recent confluence
of four main factors: rising
access to sonogram technology, increased
access to abortion, a preference for sons, and fertility decline.
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.
No one is being denied
access to birth control or
abortions, it's a question
of who should have
to pay for it.
Access to abortion and birth control were included among 1
of 16 values and principles guiding the grassroots rally.
«
Abortion restrictions and clinic closures mean that patients may need
to travel greater distances
to access services,» said Rachel Jones, lead author
of the study, in a written release.
According
to LifeSiteNews, the article makes a «pro-
abortion case» but arrives at a «shocking conclusion:» «While
abortion is still legal, it is increasingly difficult
to access, thanks
to the closing
of so many
abortion clinics and pro-life laws that help women by giving them additional information and alternatives.»
State lawmakers passed the second - highest number
of abortion restrictions ever this past year, with 19 states enacting 43 measures in 2012 that limited
access to abortion services, according
to the Guttmacher Institute.
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.
We should note at this point that for a school
to provide information enabling sexually active pupils «
to access»
abortion and contraception is, according
to Catholic teaching, «formal cooperation» with the grave evils
of, respectively, murder and sex outside marriage.
Ashley at Let Me Entertain You is concerned about women's rights and wrote yesterday about a proposed regulation by the Department
of Health and Human Services «that could seriously undermine
access to basic reproductive health services, including birth control and
abortion.»