Sentences with phrase «on abortion providers»

These onerous and medically unnecessary regulations on abortion providers include requiring that hallways in a health center measure a certain width.

That «clinic regulation» they speak of is actually called targeted restrictions on abortion providers (TRAP) laws.

Those provisions are two of the most common types of targeted restrictions on abortion providers (TRAP):

Ultimately, the legislature passed an omnibus TRAP (Targeted Regulations on Abortion Providers) bill (SB 1722 / HB 1411) that lists over 10 medically unnecessary and burdensome government regulations and mandatory reporting to restrict women's access to safe and legal abortion.

An attempt to adopt stringent regulations for abortion clinics in Minnesota failed when Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a measure that would have imposed requirements on abortion providers» facilities, but not other similar outpatient health care facilities.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the Trump Administration's policy on abortion providers.

Not exact matches

Obama rescinded the ban on federal funds for overseas abortion providers and signed a healthcare law that many conservatives say subsidizes abortion, though the law's supporters say it respects the federal ban on abortion funding.

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.

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has perpetuated a «genocide on the black community,» says a group of African - American pastors who claimed Thursday the birth control and abortion provider has had a racist agenda since its beginnings in 1921.

According to the ethics report, physicians objecting to abortion or contraception must refer patients desiring such services to other providers (recommendation # 4); may not argue or advocate their views on these matters though they are required to provide prior notice to their patients of their moral commitments (recommendation # 3); and, in emergency cases or in situations that might negatively affect patient physical or mental health, they must actually provide contraception and / or perform abortions (recommendation # 5, emphasis added).

At the time, 13 states had defunded Planned Parenthood by keeping Title IX funds from going to the organization, which is the nation's largest provider of on - demand abortions by far.

A recent law prohibits federal funds from paying for most abortions, but Planned Parenthood — which, among other services, is a major abortion provider (3 percent of their services are abortions)-- has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding — legally, much of that can not be used on abortions.

«I'm thankful for this reversal and pray for the day soon when abortion providers would not operate on any cent of public money,» Moore said in written comments for Baptist Press.

The ERLC has offered six pro-life priorities for action by President - elect Trump and Congress in 2017, including the nomination and confirmation of a pro-life successor to the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, a permanent ban on all federal funding of abortion and the defunding of Planned Parenthood, the country's No. 1 abortion provider.

Under the legislation, passed by the Council in March, the centers would have been forced to explicitly advertise that they do not perform abortions and disclose whether they have a licensed medical provider on site, provide referrals for prenatal care and abortions and provide emergency contraception.

The committee also reviewed the evidence on what clinical skills are necessary for health care providers to safely perform the various components of abortion care, including pregnancy determination, counseling, gestational age assessment, medication dispensing, procedure performance, patient monitoring, and follow - up assessment and care.

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.

These services are funded by donations, not the taxes that are spent on Planned Parenthood, an abortion provider.

Today the women's health care providers who jointly filed suit last month on behalf of their patients have filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate an injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on October 28 blocking a Texas provision requiring doctors who provide abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital — a requirement that leading medical associations oppose and only results in women losing access to safe medical care.

This policy requires doctors who object to providing medical care on the basis of religious or conscientious grounds (such as medical assistance in dying, abortion, birth control and gender confirmation surgery) to connect the patient with a person or agency who will either provide care or connect the patient with a willing provider of the service requested.

This policy requires doctors who object to providing medical care on the basis of religious or conscientious grounds (such as medical assistance in dying — «MAID» — but also abortion, birth control and gender confirmation surgery) to connect the patient with a person or agency who will either provide care or connect the patient with a willing provider of the service requested.

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Socially conservative policymakers are also seeking to wholly eliminate or undermine the Title X family planning program, by directing Title X funding to FQHC sites while excluding providers focused on reproductive health, some of which also offer abortions with separate funding.

First, the state moved to ban Planned Parenthood health centers from participating in the Women's Health Program, based solely on the fact that these centers were associated with other sites where abortions were provided; Planned Parenthood health centers had been serving about four in 10 women in the program statewide, and some sites served as many as eight in 10 women within their service areas.22 The Obama administration made clear that Texas» action violated federal law by discriminating against qualified providers.

This tactic, which has been replicated in many states, prompted the Obama administration to issue regulations that clarified states can not exclude otherwise qualified abortion providers from the Title X program (see «Recent Funding Restrictions on the U.S. Family Planning Safety Net May Foreshadow What Is to Come,» 2016).

As a final example, in 2016, the Wisconsin legislature implemented yet another, relatively new type of restriction on safety - net family planning providers that also offer abortion: limiting these providers» drug reimbursement rates under Medicaid.

Other policies look to exclude any entity that provides abortions, or any family planning provider that is formally affiliated with such an entity; this typically affects safety - net health centers that focus on reproductive health care, rather than primary care, including — but not limited to — Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood announced on Jan. 14 it is suing the Center for Medical Progress, the group responsible for heavily edited and secretly filmed videos claiming the abortion provider illegally sells fetal tissue.

On April 11, Texas Planned Parenthood family planning providers who do not perform abortions filed suit against the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) in federal court in order to protect Texan women's access to basic, preventive health services.

On Tuesday, January 13, Planned Parenthood received a letter from the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, rejecting the paperwork to be an abortion provider in the state.

In December, he signed medically unnecessary and politically motivated regulations intended to shut down all abortion providers after fast - tracking those regulations earlier in the year on a purported «emergency» basis.

The law also imposes certain restrictions on abortions and abortion providers.

Signed into law by Governor Brewer on May 5, this bill disqualified Planned Parenthood from being an AHCCCS provider because they provide safe and legal abortions.

Despite Planned Parenthood's propaganda, ending taxpayer funding of abortion providers will have little impact on a woman's access to healthcare.

The RHRA formed in 2003 in response to the arrest of three medical providers on false charges of committing murder through abortion.

Targeted restrictions against abortion providers (TRAP) that place unreasonable requirements on health care centers, slowly erode access to abortion, have nothing to do with improving the health or safety of women — and have everything to do with politics

Six of these states (AL, ID, IN, KS, MO and OK), all of which adopted restrictions on abortions performed later in pregnancy (see above), moved to require abortion providers to report a diagnosis when an abortion is performed at or beyond 20 weeks» gestation.

The landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt centered on two TRAP provisions: a mandate that all abortion providers comply with onerous and medically unnecessary building requirements for ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), and an unfair, also medically unnecessary requirement that doctors who provide abortions obtain hospital admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

However, instead of bulking up the cost - saving waiver program, anti-choice legislators — on the hunt to attack abortion providers — gutted it.

Yesterday, a 2 - 1 decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a case brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of several Texas abortion providers, ruled against Texas women and allowed abortion restrictions to eviscerate women's access to safe and legal abortion in the state.

«As the County Board of Health pointed out, there is no public health value, nor support from the medical community, including the medical professionals on that Board, for a county ordinance requiring abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges.»

Yet, in spite of these alarming statistics around cancer and STDs in New Jersey, on Monday Kim Guadagno stated that she would not restore funding for preventive reproductive health services — because providers like Planned Parenthood also offer abortion services.

It would have left Texas with only nine abortion providers in the whole state, and the Supreme Court rightly ruled that would put an undue burden on women to access health care.

In Arizona, the legislature has amended state law to require that providers follow the regimen outlined on the old label for medication abortion, regardless of scientific evidence and the new FDA - approved label.

The case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt centers on two TRAP provisions: a mandate that all abortion providers comply with onerous and medically unnecessary building requirements for ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), and an unfair, also medically unnecessary requirement that doctors who provide abortions obtain hospital admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

Rather it could embolden state politicians to block patients with low incomes who rely on Title X from getting care from reproductive health care providers, including Planned Parenthood, just because they provide safe, legal abortion.

This administration is carrying out a full - scale attack on birth control — eliminating insurance coverage for birth control, eliminating programs that help women with low incomes access birth control, and moving to prohibit health care providers from even giving women information about birth control or abortion.

Moreover, some states have built on the federal guarantee by taking steps such as ensuring that patients can receive insurance coverage for a full year's supply of contraceptives at one time (rather than for either one or three months at a time, as is typical).10 This development is especially important for abortion patients who are not interested in LARCs but may need time to find another type of provider for ongoing contraceptive care — if, for example, they do not live near the abortion clinic.

Instead, both states implemented entirely state - funded efforts through which they could exclude Planned Parenthood and other family planning providers based solely on the fact that they also offer abortion services.

They provide 59 % of all U.S. abortions2 and focus primarily on abortion care, and therefore do not typically offer a broad range of reproductive health services.3 Because specialized providers are not designed or often seen as sources of comprehensive or ongoing care — whether for contraception or anything else — it can be all the more challenging for them to devote limited resources to offering more integrated care.