Sentences with phrase «of women seeking abortions»

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

«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.

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.»

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

This is pretty surprising, since most often we think of women seeking abortions as single, scared and coerced by some withdrawn male.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Carefully distinguishing the termination of a planned pregnancy from the abortions of «other» women, Christians are seeking theological justification for their decisions to terminate disabled fetuses.

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 several thousand women receive assistance each year to seek abortions overseas in Great Britain, though the proportion of Irish women who receive abortions is dwarfed by the abortion rate in the United Kingdom and the Unites States.

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.»

Most Americans probably support the implicit moral position of mainstream Protestantism and perhaps of America's religious traditions in general: permit as few legal abortions as possible without damaging women's rights and without making it necessary for women to perform abortions on themselves or seek clandestine and possibly dangerous 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 trWomen'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 trwomen of the equal protection of the laws by depriving women seeking abortions of their right to interstate trwomen seeking abortions of their right to interstate travel.

The agenda seeks to address women's health issues with the passage of the Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage Act and codifying abortion rights into state law.

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

The mailer includes Trump quotes about a wall along the U.S. - Mexican border he says he'll make Mexicans pay for, and his comments that «there has to be some form of punishment» for women who seek abortions.

Women's rights: Cuomo reiterated his support for abortion rights He wants to ban employers from asking job - seekers about their past pay, and will seek to require state contractors to report the gender and pay of employees.

The amendment's aim is to break the stranglehold on abortion counselling of certain groups which Dorries and Field say have a financial conflict of interest in advising women seeking terminations, and open up counselling to independent counsellers.

Other groups seeking exemptions from donor disclosure include the New York Civil Liberties Union, which often defends controversial acts of free speech, and the entire coalition of women's groups that backed Governor Cuomo's Women's Equality Act, which includes the abortion proviwomen's groups that backed Governor Cuomo's Women's Equality Act, which includes the abortion proviWomen's Equality Act, which includes the abortion provision.

The other study included some 900 women from Finland, Norway, Sweden and Austria, who sought medicinal abortion treatment up to nine weeks of pregnancy.

«Our study gives further insight into the ways that the clinic closures due to Texas's restrictive law resulted in an undue burden on women seeking access to abortion care in Texas,» said Daniel Grossman, MD, an investigator with TxPEP and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at UC San Francisco.

Yesterday the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that would have forced the closure of abortion clinics that didn't meet strict requirements — requirements the justices decided (by a 5 - to - 3 margin) didn't make women any safer and put an undue burden on their constitutional right to seek safe and legal medical care.

«After Tiller» Lana Wilson and Martha Shane focus on the continued and frustrating efforts of four U.S. doctors to practice late - term abortions, and they also crucially show us the conflicted women and couples seeking such a procedure.

These bills provide a roadmap for state policymakers seeking to fight government interference within the patient - provider relationship, promote women - centered approaches in the provision of abortion and other reproductive health care services, and enact legislation that emphasizes the need to expand access to abortion.

It is of particular relevance to women's equality and access to justice for a variety of reasons, including the fear that an ICBC adjuster can read about a woman's therapeutic abortion or sexual assault history, which may in turn prevent women from seeking damages in personal injury matters.

Because of the cost of some drug regimes, this has penalizing effects for certain groups of women, including pregnant women seeking medical abortions and women with HIV.

In addition to prohibiting sexual intimacy outside of marriage between a man and a woman, TWU indicates an expectation that female students and staff will not seek abortion services while attending or working at TWU.

On Jan. 1, the Liberal government of New Brunswick eliminated a requirement that women seeking fully funded abortions in that province have the approval of two doctors (to certify that the procedure was «medically necessary»).

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.

Proponents of such restrictions are ultimately seeking to make abortion inaccessible for U.S. women, and so are seeking to shutter Planned Parenthood health centers and any safety - net health center providing publicly funded family planning services that additionally offers abortions (using other funds), or is affiliated with an abortion provider.

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.

At least half of the women in her clinic seeking abortion care had been using contraception when they got pregnant; therefore, she claims, Planned Parenthood may be good at providing birth control «to the masses» but not at providing good contraceptive and related education.

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.

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.

We at Planned Parenthood Action Fund are all about putting Trump in his place, but the backlash against the concept of punishing abortion - seeking women is incomplete without acknowledging two points:

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 Ababortion 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 AbortionAbortion).

Subsequent to alerting U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Planned Parenthood learned the identify of one of those involved and believes these visits are likely a hoax by opponents of legal abortion seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood, which delivers preventive health care and abortion services to three million women each year.

This bill goes even further, seeking to limit American women's access to abortion and no - cost birth control and blocking implementation of the groundbreaking provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

Online Documentary: Fazeelat Aslam, VICE.com, for her piece, «Misconception: The Fake Abortion Clinics of America» on VICE.com, which exposed the false information perpetuated by so - called «crisis pregnancy centers» and the harm they can do to women seeking care and the broader reproductive rights movement as a whole.

In June, the United States Supreme Court clearly ruled in Whole Woman's Health v Hellerstedt that the same medically unnecessary restrictions in Texas created an undue burden, which violated the constitutional rights of a patient seeking safe and legal abortion.

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.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America applauds today's preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp against Nebraska's recently enacted «The Women's Health Protection Act,» which requires physicians who may perform an abortion to discuss the entire body of research literature about possible health risks related to abortion with their patients who are seeking abortions, even though much of this information may be outdated, false or misleading.