Sentences with phrase «on access to abortion»

Against the backdrop of a contentious presidential campaign in which abortion and even contraception were front - burner issues — to a degree unprecedented in recent memory — supporters of reproductive health and rights were able to block high - profile attacks on access to abortion in states as diverse as Alabama, Idaho, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

We support state and local advocacy and education to promote positive policies and programs and counter attacks on access to abortion, family planning, and sexuality education.

The judge argued that the state law, «when measured against Supreme Court precedent... falls woefully short of constitutional requirements» in the restrictions it placed on access to abortion for pregnant girls under age 18.

In Lader's mind there was a very definite connection between the struggle to abolish slavery in the 19th century and the struggle to abolish legal restrictions on access to abortion in the 20th.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

The policies that are routinely sold to our children rest on the contention that all people have the right to confidentiality and therefore we must have confidential access to sexual health services, to abortion and so on.

And why on earth oppose access to birth control and reforms in the health care system when those will likely make the biggest difference in actually curbing abortions in this country?

Those who are on the front lines of championing contraceptive access to reduce abortion in the developing world are having national impact among conservatives!

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.»

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.

Unfettered access to abortion on demand has addressed none of women's true needs; nor has it brought dignity to women.

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.»

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.

Pro-choice agencies that support a woman's right to choice and access to all options - while it is not essential for the potential birth - or adoptive parents to subscribe to a particular value around abortion, it is absolutely essential that the agencies working with pregnant women and their loved ones not be in a position of coercion based on disapproval of abortion.

This comes just two weeks after a Supreme Court case was heard in London concerning whether women from Northern Ireland, where abortion is generally not allowed, should have to pay to access abortions on the NHS in England.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan has said he's pro-life, but has also pledged to uphold state laws on abortion and not seek to criminalize or limit access it in any way.

Suggestions over the weekend that a vote could be offered on potentially limiting access to abortion throughout the UK tend to suggest that such concerns are merited.

Likely voters side with Obama over Romney on key issues, including keeping so - called Obamacare in tact, eliminating tax cuts for those earning more than $ 250,000, Medicare, and protecting abortion rights and women's access to contraception.

The governor says the plan is a «direct assault on New York values» because it defunds Planned Parenthood and restricts access to abortion and reproductive health services.

Klein has countered by calling for votes on a variety of key, hot - button issues that are supported by the Democratic base, but not have the needed support in the sharply divided chamber, such as strengthening abortion rights and access to tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants.

What started as a pro-labor movement party has become more fixated on issues that are more limosine liberal crazy issues like unfettered access to abortion, LGBT nuttines Environmental Wackos, etc...

The push from the state Democratic Committee is expected to focus on issues that include sexual harassment, domestic abuse and abortion rights as well as access to reproductive health services.

Backed by a large number of his Democratic conference and advocates, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Tuesday afternoon warned of «a slow and steady erosion» of reproductive rights hours before the Democrat - dominated chamber passed two measures designed to protect abortion availability and enhance access to contraception.

Northern Ireland remains the only part of the UK where women can not access abortion unless their life is endangered by pregnancy — a legal situation that is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, according to a Belfast High Court ruling in 2015.

«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.

The Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) released a study on the state of women's reproductive health in Texas, and found that due to lack of access to clinics and poverty, 22 % of women surveyed had self - induced or attempted to self - induce abortions.

Rather than disseminate the idea that a woman would choose to have an abortion for the sake of her appearance, she said, the media should focus its attention on women who are unable to «access an abortion because of state laws.»

Women's Affairs Unless the Supreme Court acts soon, on July 1 a new law will go into effect in Texas which drastically reduces access to abortion services.

While Little Woods hits on some of the most important issues facing our country today (health care, rural poverty, abortion rights and access, the opioid crisis), DaCosta commitment to focusing on characters first turns an important movie a deeply personal and intimate film.

Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law 50 bills passed during the recent legislative session, including a bill requiring a report on why Utah women get abortions and others aimed at increasing access to public records.

Further, any woman who has an unwanted pregnancy while attending TWU will face an unconscionable restriction on her autonomy in having to continue with that pregnancy or face expulsion or other discriminatory sanction for accessing legal abortion services.

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.

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«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.»

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 exchange is the only place where premium subsidies are available, and advocates for reproductive rights have noted that in those 25 states (along with six other states where insurers are allowed to include coverage for abortion on their exchange plans but have chosen not to do so), there is no access to affordable health insurance with abortion coverage.

The proposal sought to tamper with privacy rights in order to allow more legislative restrictions on Florida women's access a safe and legal abortion.

«The Appropriations bill is an important step in the right direction when it comes to women's health — holding the line on deeply unpopular abortion restrictions and expanding access for Peace Corps volunteers.

Previous studies also failed to show significant differences in pregnancy or abortion rates among women with advance provisions of EC.6, 7,19 It is possible that the effect of increased access on pregnancy rates is truly negligible because EC is not as effective as found in the single - use clinical trials, or because women at highest risk do not use EC frequently enough or at all.

The curricula were considered weak in a number of areas: They emphasized abstinence; lacked adequate basic information on contraceptives, condoms, sex and sexual health; excluded key topics such as reproduction, STIs, abortion, access to condoms and sexual health services; and omitted other social and contextual aspects, such as harassment and parental monitoring.

The Tennessee State Legislature has doubled down on efforts to restrict a woman's right to safe, legal abortion and equal access to affordable reproductive health care.

You have the exact same access to abortion today as you did on Election Day.

Up and down the ballot, women's health champions are facing opponents who threaten to take us backward on access to birth control coverage; backward on access to safe, legal abortion; and backward on access to care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

There is uncertainty ahead of us as anti-women's health legislators target us, but we will never stop fighting to protect access to the full range of care our patients depend on: affordable birth control, STI testing and treatment, cancer screening and abortion.

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.

A ban on abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy in North Carolina that only permitted access to abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy under an extremely narrow medical emergency exception.

A: There is uncertainty ahead of us but we will never stop fighting to protect access to the full range of care our patients depend on: affordable birth control, STD testing and treatment, cancer screening and abortion.

The continued attacks by extremist politicians in Washington on women's health are part of a dangerous agenda to roll back access to reproductive health care and ban abortion, leaving millions of patients across the country devastated by stripping them of the basic health care they need and deserve.

«We think improving access to birth control, particularly IUDs [intrauterine devices] and [hormone] implants, coupled with education on the most effective methods, has the potential to significantly decrease the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions in this country.»