Sentences with phrase «on access to birth control»
Both of these conditions are often treated with hormonal birth control, which means these women would be hit the hardest by attacks on access to birth control.
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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.
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).
Birth Control pills can only be accessed through a perscription, and the cost is based on the ability of the patient to pay at PP.
Access to birth control and education on the proper uses (like, even if you're on birth control, the guy should still wear a condom) of it, as well as true education about intercourse, what causes disease and how giving birth affects the female body is one of the most responsible things we can help the poor with.
Having free access to birth control and the education on how to use it wouldn't help poor people?
Reducing births requires access too artificial birth control along with education on how to use it effectively.
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?
The group also attempted to push back on criticism from liberals that their opposition to the contraception rule was akin to restricting access to forms of birth control.
Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.
No one is mandating that Catholics (or anyone) has to actually be on birth control, it is only mandated for employers to «offer access» to a health plan that covers it.
I try not to put too much pressure on myself to speak up as the token «Christian feminist» on issues like these, but after reading multiple blog posts and articles this week from Christian men about women and contraception, I decided to add my two cents as a pro-life woman of faith who supports affordable access to birth control for women.
On Thursday, Mark - Viverito said the City Council plans to push a measure to guarantee free birth control to New Yorkers who currently are not eligible for free access under their health insurance plans.
According to the march's guiding vision and definition of principles, they are against any federal, state or local cuts or restrictions on women's ability to access reproductive healthcare services, birth control, HIV / AIDS care and prevention, or «medically accurate sexuality education.»
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office on Friday announced a coalition of state AGs from around the country had filed an injunction to block the Trump administration's rule change for access to birth control.
I served on the board of Planned Parenthood in the Hudson Valley and fought to protect a woman's right to choose and access to birth control.
In Oregon, the new law took effect on January 1, and provides access to hormonal birth control — including pills and patches — for woman age 18 or older.
If you want to learn more, I suggest paying less attention to activist newsletters and instead read an invaluable discussion of the research and rhetoric on access to family planning accompanying «Is there an «unmet need» for birth control,» a 2011 blog post by Berk Ozler, a World Bank development economist.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey is celebrating that New Jersey women are one vote closer to increased access to birth control after an Assembly vote on legislation requiring insurance companies to cover costs for dispensing up to six months of contraceptives at one time.
Mr. Pearce — assuming he was head of welfare — made comments on his radio show September 6 saying he would force women to have birth control implants or undergo surgical sterilization to access funds.
WASHINGTON, DC — On February 13, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) affiliates and their supporters will hold a nationwide Day of Action, calling on elected officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to pass legislation that helps women and couples prevent unintended pregnancy and plan healthy families by expanding access to birth control and real sex educatioOn February 13, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) affiliates and their supporters will hold a nationwide Day of Action, calling on elected officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to pass legislation that helps women and couples prevent unintended pregnancy and plan healthy families by expanding access to birth control and real sex educatioon elected officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to pass legislation that helps women and couples prevent unintended pregnancy and plan healthy families by expanding access to birth control and real sex education.
The Medicaid program would be gutted, which approximately 1 in 4 women of reproductive age rely on to access no - cost, critical reproductive health care such as birth control, lifesaving cancer screenings, and maternity care.
When Texas blocked patients from services at Planned Parenthood, there was a decrease in women accessing the most effective forms of birth control, and an increase in births among women who previously had access to the birth control shot — a situation that researchers attribute to the state's ban on Planned Parenthood.
Access to no co-pay birth control has significant health and economic benefits, with women spending up to $ 600 a year on birth control.
We should build on the tremendous progress made in this country with expanded access to birth control, instead of enacting policies that take us backwards.
«With as many as 750,000 teens becoming pregnant each year, it is time for all of us to take action and ensure our young people have information on and access to affordable birth control, including emergency contraception,» Richards said.
In addition, Planned Parenthood advocates on Capitol Hill, as well as in state legislatures across the country, for increasing access to affordable birth control and promoting women's health.
In Texas, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that blocking patients from going to Planned Parenthood led to a 35 % decline in women on Medicaid using the most effective methods of birth control and a dramatic 27 % spike in births among women who had previously had access to injectable contraception through Medicaid.
President Trump just doubled down on blocking women from accessing care at Planned Parenthood — calling on Congress to bar Planned Parenthood from participating in ANY health care program, including Medicaid, HIV programs, Zika prevention programs, and our nation's only birth control program.
«Latina women and their families depend on access to preventive health care, like lifesaving breast cancer screenings, Pap tests, annual exams and affordable birth control.
«Tens of thousands of Texan women enrolled in the Women's Health Program rely on Planned Parenthood for lifesaving cancer screenings, annual exams, and access to birth control.
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.
«This policy delivers on the promise of women having access to birth control without co-pays no matter where they work.
With the goal of expanding access to reproductive health information, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) announces the launch of its Spanish - language mobile website, Planned Parenthood en Español Móvil (plannedparenthood.org/esp), ensuring that the facts on birth control, sexually transmitted infections, parent / teen - talks about sex and finding the nearest health center, among many other topics, are available by mobile phone in Spanish.
«In the face of a relentless assault on women's health, including access to birth control, the Obama administration preserves funding for an essential public health program, the national family planning program,» said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Arizona, where the legislature is poised to pass (and the Governor will sign) a bill that targets access to birth control, cancer screenings, STD tests, and other critical care for thousands of Medicaid patients who rely on Planned Parenthood.
Despite the fact that birth control is essential to women's economic and social advancement — the Trump administration is hell - bent on chipping away at access to it.
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.
NEW YORK CITY — Following today's editorial in the New York Times, «Costly Contraceptives,» Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the nation's leading reproductive health care advocate and provider, called on Congress to address the growing problem of access to affordable birth control in America.
«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.»
If you don't stand with us on access to safe and legal abortion, affordable birth control, care at Planned Parenthood, or health care equity, then you don't deserve to represent us.
Planned Parenthood was founded on the promise that every woman should have access to birth control, and we're more committed than ever to fulfilling that promise.»
«With the cost of tuition, books, and gas on the rise, it's time for the Bush administration to stop playing politics with women's health and pocketbooks and restore access to affordable birth control for our nation's college students and low - income women.»
Florida, where extreme lawmakers passed a bill that blocks access to birth control and cancer screenings, and includes Texas - style medically unnecessary restrictions on safe, legal abortion that could shutter health centers;
Her campaign also was based on an anti-women's health platform that would have serious consequences for women's ability to access affordable birth control and reproductive health care.
The Trump Administration made its boldest move against contraception access on Friday, when it reversed Obama - era policies requiring most employers to include birth control in employee insurance plans.
The most extreme elements of the Republican Party are not focused on jobs or on the economy, but on taking away women's access to basic health care — cancer screenings, birth control, and annual exams.
A: 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.
The disastrous bill to repeal the ACA had another hit on women hidden inside it — an extremely harmful provision that would «defund» Planned Parenthood, or specifically prohibit people with Medicaid coverage from accessing preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers, including birth control, cancer screenings, and STD testing and treatment.
As part of the campaign, Planned Parenthood Federation of America today is launching a TV ad highlighting the anti-birth control positions of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY), who spoke out this week along with other Republican lawmakers in support of bosses who want to deny the women who work for them access to no - cost birth control, and calling on him to change his positions.