Sentences with phrase «on women seeking a abortion»

«He said it happened in the first year he was on the bench, and he said it was a tough decision to write because he had to decide what was an «undue burden» on a woman seeking an abortion,» Mr. Durbin said.

«Kentucky faces a perfect storm of attacks: A legislature that continues to pass ever more onerous restrictions on women seeking a abortion, a governor with a personal personal crusade to shut down every clinic in the state, and escalating protests that recently culminated in a blockade that prevented patients from entering the front door.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

The City Council approved the bill that would have placed strict limits on the advertising crisis pregnancy centers may use and required them to post signs designed to discourage women from seeking their abortion alternatives services.

Women could soon be resorting to the same dangerous methods they relied on decades ago: seeking out backstreet abortions or attempting to end the pregnancy themselves.

The current state Assemblyman didn't seek the Democratic endorsement, but he has been heavily criticized by the county committee — cast as an opportunist, whose votes on women's equality and abortion rights, for instance, don't correspond with the party's ideals.

This week, MPs will vote on an amendment tabled by Dorries and Field that would give the NHS a duty to provide independent counselling to women seeking an abortion, from organisations that do not themselves provide abortions.

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.

«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 decision, delivered by Justice Stephen Breyer, said that HB2 would place an «undue burden» on women's constitutional right to seek an abortion, particularly for those who are poor, disadvantaged, or living in rural areas.

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.

Significantly, we argue that the Covenant infringes on women's reproductive freedom, including the constitutionally protected right to seek an abortion.

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»).

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.

On July 2, 2014, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon vetoed a dangerous bill that would have required women seeking a safe, legal abortion to wait at least 72 hours before getting the procedure.

«If a woman truly thinks having an abortion is the same as murdering a child you might see on the playground, she should strongly reconsider and seek counseling and other alternatives, such as adoption,» Baker says.

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.

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.

Tallahassee, FL — Today on behalf of four women's health care centers and two individual physicians, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood Federation of America asked a federal court to strike down a new law that will endanger the health and lives of young women seeking abortions in Florida.

Breyer wrote that «the surgical - center requirement, like the admitting privileges requirement, provides few, if any, health benefits for women, poses a substantial obstacle to women seeking abortions and constitutes an «undue burden» on their constitutional right to do so.»

Here's one of the areas on abortion with the most agreement: A whopping 87 percent of poll respondents said that a woman seeking an abortion should receive medically accurate information.

The increased number of attacks on access to safe, legal abortion and to care at Planned Parenthood health centers shows that it's not just Donald Trump who's talking about punishing women who seek abortion care.

(CNN) Donald Trump on Tuesday night once again sought to strike a softer tone on Planned Parenthood, paying tribute to its «very good work for millions of women» while also keeping up a threat to cut off federal funding to the organization if it continues to offer abortion services.